Oh, I meant no disparagement to Kate, her family, her friends, or anyone else. I was fortunate to never have been bullied in school; however, a close friend of mine as adult was bullied unmercifully all through high school, and really took it's toll on her, long, long after.
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hate this term w/a passion. What is going on in our schools is kids abusing other kids. All "bullying" is, is nothing but a nice neat term to use instead of calling it what it truly is. I hear you about your friend marigold, as the same thing happened to me, only it didn't start in High School, but much earlier. I'm still attempting to heal the scars it's left, but some scars never do.
I think Kate's parents are to be commended for pulling her out of the bully school. Other kids are told to just take it and/or find a way to cope. Maybe not so much now that awareness of the problem has risen. Kate and William's charity will help a lot!
Oh, you'd be surprised. Our neighbours went on the warpath w/their daughter's Grade Three Teacher after she went to her w/how this one boy was tackling her to the ground and then doing a neck choke on her. Not to mention some of the names he was calling her. This teacher told her that piece of crap rhyme about "Sticks and Stones" and also since this boy was being physical w/her, that meant he liked her.
That teacher is no longer teaching in our local Grade school Thank God and our neighbours, but sadly, she wasn't fired either. I pray she's gone into another profession, but I have a bad feeling about that.
Then there's those of us that didn't have an option due to location and other circumstances. Kate was lucky she was able to be transferred to another school and was accepted there by the kids judging by the impressive young lady she is. I wish I'd been that lucky.
As for the Cinderella comment, I only meant it in a light-hearted way, thinking in a romantic way, I guess, of the picked upon child growing up to be a star. I realize of course, that Kate had a more priviledged childhood than many children do. It doesn't seem to have gone to her head though.
No, it certainly doesn't and she comes across as a very grounded young lady. I'm very glad that she and William picked a program/organization that is battling something in our schools that should have been eradicated long before now when making up the list of those charties/organizations for the Wedding Donation/Gifts Listing. Hopefully, as w/Crown Princess Mary's patronage of a simliar organization in Denmark, we'll see Kate taking on that organization or something like it among her first Patronages as HRH Duchess of xxx.
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