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Greek singer speaks bluntly of her child's violent bullying

Featured Greek singer speaks bluntly of her child's violent bullying

Marianda Pieridis proceeded to revealing that her son is being bullied by a classmate at the primary school he attends.

Speaking on Instagram, the singer said that her son has been assaulted since first grade, adding that he has had a pencil stuck to his temple. 

In another incident, a classmate kicked him in the school yard while they were playing basketball. 

Everything that Marianda Pieridis said
"Good morning everyone. So, why am I telling this story. I want your opinion on something that I have been dealing with since the 1st grade that the little one started at school. In a school that, in the past at least, had been excellent. I am facing very serious bullying issues. From first grade. The first serious issue I encountered was a pencil shoved to the temple, piercing the skin-enetring the flesh. One of everything was this. Then there were kicks in the face, his grandfather saw him lying in the front yard and being kicked in the stomach by the kid for no reason, they were playing basketball. Just to get the ball he felt he had to do that. I want your opinion very much."

I have been reading your posts for a long time and I have to say that some of them have helped me a lot. Some others, I have already done what you describe. I mean, what I've already done is that in 2nd grade, I had to send the kid to a school to learn to defend himself. I had explained to an excellent teacher what was going on because I had lost my temper. He did not know where the child was coming from and instead of defending himself, he sat and ate them. He has collected too much inside him. I don't understand why this is happening to our children. In other words, I have to collect the psychological information of the other child. Why should I have to do this? Why? The things a school can do for bullying-related matters are very limited. It is to make phone calls to the parents, if it is repeated to beg the parents to take the child to someone to help him.

What I want to understand is why should my child should have to deal with what the other child has gleaned from what it lives at home? Why do I have to deal with the aggression and all this anger that another child has. I sympathize with every problem a child has at home and shouls be helped as much as I can. Why should my own child face this situation. And I go on and say, when a child starts sticking pencils in the face of his classmates, kicks them so they don't sit in the chair he wants to sit in, when he engages in verbal bullying... Is it possible for a child to be afraid to ask for explanations about the lesson at school why does he have a creature next to him who calls him stupid? This is terrible psychological warfare: Why do I have to live it?

Yesterday I had to call one of the child's teachers to tell her that the child is too ashamed to ask her to do something. So we have psychological buliyng andphysical buliyng. What is going to happen? When he's in sixth grade will he be carrying a knife? If he starts in the first grade and sticks pencils in his classmates, what will he do in the sixth grade? It is very difficult, very uncomfortable. I don't know if we should go to extremes, with the police as some of you tell me, I don't know, [should I contact] the Ministry of Education? I don't know, something has to change and we can't let this happen.

To a mother who told me, "these things will happen", [I say no] these things should not happen. They must stop and we, the parents who think about our children, will help.[…] I don't want my child to experience this and I don't want to change the child's school because of a bad child, a bad character. [It's the bully] That should change schools"