roliepolieoliefan
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My DS who is 7 goes to a Catholic school in the next town over and not in the same school district as we live. But he must ride the school bus from our district to his school with the public school kids.
Some of these kids are not from very good homes and alot of them act up on the bus. A couple months ago, my DS and the boy next to him got into a confrontation and my son got hit. I find out later though it was innocently provoked by my DS and the other boy took it the wrong way. (Long story, but I understand how the kid did take it the wrong way) They have since talked it out and became friends.
Now another boy, is calling DS a "loser". He has been in trouble before. Last year and this year. I asked DS and its not just him its many kids he calls a loser. "My family is better than yours" My family is stronger than yours" etc. DS told the bus driver and he told the principal of the public elementary school where this other boy goes. DS says he never touches anyone, just yells things from his seat.
I told DS, just ignore him. I can't drive DS to school everyday due to work and DD's speech therapy. We have our house for sale and this will be his last year riding the bus with these kids. I just feel so bad. I know he needs to deal with it and will encounter kids like this everywhere . DS is so nonconfrontational. He won't stick up for himself either. I wish I could protect him forever.
Thanks for listening.
Some of these kids are not from very good homes and alot of them act up on the bus. A couple months ago, my DS and the boy next to him got into a confrontation and my son got hit. I find out later though it was innocently provoked by my DS and the other boy took it the wrong way. (Long story, but I understand how the kid did take it the wrong way) They have since talked it out and became friends.
Now another boy, is calling DS a "loser". He has been in trouble before. Last year and this year. I asked DS and its not just him its many kids he calls a loser. "My family is better than yours" My family is stronger than yours" etc. DS told the bus driver and he told the principal of the public elementary school where this other boy goes. DS says he never touches anyone, just yells things from his seat.
I told DS, just ignore him. I can't drive DS to school everyday due to work and DD's speech therapy. We have our house for sale and this will be his last year riding the bus with these kids. I just feel so bad. I know he needs to deal with it and will encounter kids like this everywhere . DS is so nonconfrontational. He won't stick up for himself either. I wish I could protect him forever.
Thanks for listening.
I tell DS that if he can get through the growing years & through school ~ he can get through anything in life!
Please don't teach your son that "these kids" are rotten (really, they are rotten--I agree with you there) b/c they go to the dreaded public schools. 
Believe me, he will run into many-a-rotten child in the Catholic school system, even on an All Catholic bus 
), just responding to the situation of kids picking on kids that makes me hot under the collar. I can honestly say that I wasn't one of those kids who picked on others and neither are my kids now. And, there are good and bad kids at both kinds of schools. I'm a Catholic school teacher. My kids go to public schools. We have problems with kids at my school, however; there are many more problems in the public schools. I think it all comes down to parenting and the way the school deals with the problems. The OP said that the bus driver informed the school and hopefully the parents were informed. If I was that parent of the bully (because that is what he is - it may not seem like much now, but if he's doing that at age 7 or 8 it will only get worse from there) the problem would be over with immediately because whatever consequence the school would provide, mine as a parent would be triple. 
