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The bully in Libby's class is amazing in her ability to manipulate so many girls into doing exactly what she wants, only Libby can see that and has told over her for bullying on previous occasions. The problem has arisen that she has systematically picked off different girls and bullied them to the point that they were wetting their bed or terrified of going to school and now rather than risk being bullied they tend to be sidekicks when this nasty piece of work decides to pick on someone. Libby sits on a table with this girl and 4 other girls, it's the clever table only Libby is working three years beyond what she should (she doesn't get it from me although I'm no slouch, Chris's family tend to be boffins but with absolutely no common sense) so the problem is jealousy on behalf of the other girls but Libby is so serious and would use humour to deflect, she just soaks it all in. It took all weekend to straighten her out, an awful lot of talking and going through all situations like you describe Wendy with me playing the girls. Once school had got involved she was much happier and so was I because Libby is epiletic and I was very frightened that the stress would trigger an attack.
The bully is the most angelic looking kid in the class and the mother refuses to belive anything bad about her child and says it's her child who is bullied. It's so difficult to know what to say when your child is in such a state.