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SCARLETT made for a good target. The daughter of a Williamsburg artist, she wore funky clothing to her East Village school, had a mild learning disability and was generally timid and insecure. Lila, the resident “mean girl” in Scarlett’s kindergarten class, started in immediately.
Scarlett, she sneered, couldn’t read. Her Payless and Gap shoes weren’t good enough. She wasn’t “allowed” to play with certain girls. Lila was forming a band, and Scarlett couldn’t be a part. One girl threatened to physically hurt her. During recess, Lila would loom over Scarlett, arms crossed, and say, “I’m watching you.”
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Cultural Studies - Mean-Girl Bullying Trickles Down to Grade School - NYTimes.com
Sent by my dad today; sounds not unlike the kind of bullying that started at my school in kindergarten (oh, how we would run away from the girl in my class who must have been severely learning-disabled, not that it was ever explained to us). Are girls really meaner, or is it just that parents no longer regarding being bullied as an inevitable rite of passage?
