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Originally Posted by Judge J
Basically my little brother is in his first year of secondary school. He is attending a well known catholic school in west London. The school has top grades etc, and he is slowly progressing well academically.
The only problem is that he is having trouble making friends.
Whenever he comes back from school he complains that no one likes him, and that his socalled friends just make fun of him, and call him names.
I will be doing more investigating into it.
I am not sure if its due to his lack of confidence, or that he is one of a handful of black people in his year, etc
What were other peoples experiences like when they started seconday school?
Did anyone find it hard to make friends ?
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I'm assuming he started in September, so he's been there, almost 8months now....You need to start your "investigations" immediately.
Unless you are not telling all (understandable) then you need to be asking him to give complete examples of how he's made fun of, and the names called. And exactly who is doing this. How he is responding to this ordeal. (You need to be observant of changes in his behaviour)
You also need to be contacting the school and make arrangement to talk to his teachers.
Children do take the mick out of each other (it seems to me more so with this generation-my son and his friends are pure jokers, if you didn't know them you would think it was malicious) It could just be that your brother is not used to this behaviour and/or is sensitive to it.
Hope you sort it out.