Talk:Case Study: Henry, a Victim of Cyberbullying/@comment-26546063-20150803163755

Unfortunately, It's already hard on a child to move into 6th grade or middle school age as "the new kid", and if he's shy, it's so much worse. But then reading a deroggatory name to decribe himself on a social media site all the students probably have access to just made his entire year worse. I always have a soft spot for boys (surprise, surprise) because I've realized that most of them don't talk to their parents about these situations as soon as they should. Luckily I'm hypervigilent, and my son doesn't have a problem talking about uncomfortable situations. But if typically boys spoke up a bit more, at least their parents could jump on the situation in the beginning. They could first go to school administrators and try to get the site shut down and demand the instigators be investigated and reprimanded. I know that could also make things worse for Henry. But sometimes it's worse if it's never brought to attention (as we've seen). In this case, everyone was lucky enough that a teacher was around to hear some comments and intervene. I'm willing to bet that Henry wasn't the only one being bullied by that group.