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Affiliation disclaimer: I am a retired lawyer and used to professionally counsel parents on educational/parenting subjects including bullying. The following is intended to educate parents generally to become the best educational advocates for their children. It is not intended to be specific legal advice, and for specific legal advice relevant to your particular fact situation, please seek legal counsel.I like Kate Simmons's ideas. Your response as parents will be determined by the severity and frequency of the event(s) of bullying which are occurring. To read about bullying and its impacts, see the very general Wikipedia article, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying. Part of what you need to do is become very educated about the subject.Also:Make sure your child is okay, safe, and unafraid. Do what you need to do. This is your first priority. Next...Document. Every single thing. Keep a journal. Include thoughts, feelings, statements, actions, and all impacts relating to the bullying incident(s). Describe what happened by date and time. Who was there? Who saw it happening? What was said? What were they wearing? Where did this occur? When? How? How frequently? Keep it organized by date. Keep it up to date.Incident Control. Write a letter to the teacher(s) who are tasked with your child's safety and welfare, cc the principal and (if you feel your letter will be ignored, send a copy also to the head of your school district -- ) and whichever other staff are involved. The letter should describe the event(s), dates and times of their occurrences, and their impact(s). It should also suggest and request a resolution to be reached to stop the bullying. The resolution should be one which is agreeable to the school, and to your child and you. It should end with requesting an appointment, and be written without emotion or rancor to the extent possible. You want to sound as if you are being reasonable while your child is being bullied (!). You get more flies with honey... try to gain everyone's cooperation with your reasonable requests. (That said, if you have already followed all the steps in this answer and are convinced the school and school district will not help you to stop an ongoing and pervasive bullying environment (a very, very rare occurrence) you can publicize your story on local news, newspapers, blogs, etc. Just be certain you are not libeling or slandering anyone. That is, everything must be totally true and you want to avoid invading anyone's privacy. I would recommend seeking legal counsel in this case before using the atomic bomb of media attention...so it doesn't backfire and you end up embroiled in a lawsuit for defamation.).Set an appointment. It is up to you as parents/holders of your children's educational rights to defend them. This means that you face the school staff and create an outcome for your child so that his or her educational focus remains on learning. Bullying can impact learning by causing fear which impacts a student's focus; in such cases, bullying impacts a child's educational rights to access the curriculum.Request that the principal establish a written anti-bullying/anti-harassment policy at your school if one does not already exist. If it does exist, read it. Is it adequate? If not, change it and have all parents sign it. This policy should go home with parents immediately upon completion of the writing of the policy, and again at the beginning of every school semester, and should require a parent's signature so that every parent reads the behavior expected and teaches their children how to comply with it.Enforcement of Anti-Bullying/Anti-Harassment Policy. Be sure that any such policy has enforcement provisions and consequences for its violation that are serious enough to cause compliance with it.Learn More! Every parent learning to be an advocate has to continue to learn as much as possible about how to protect our children's educational rights. Here is the U.S. Department of Education's analysis of Bullying, by state: http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/bullying/state-bullying-laws/state-bullying-laws.pdf.Connect with other advocates to see what they are doing -- Wright's Law: http://www.wrightslaw.com/info/ferpa.confid.bully.htm.Seek counsel/contact a lawyer immediately if your reasonable parental efforts (described above) fail to stop the bullying which is, in your opinion, causing unreasonable harm to your child.

I was a Special Education Teacher at Forest Park High School for 33 years working with young men and women with disabilities. My goal as a teacher was to always give compliments and encouragement and to guide them with what I consider to be great life skills.My third year teaching 1979, one of my special education student was killed in a truck accident going home from school. Our school had not had a death of a student in many years. Several of our teachers including myself developed a Crisis Care Program immediately-geared to helping student who were struggling with the loss of a friend, family member or emotional problems.We went out on our own got training on how to help student cope with suicide, death, and emotional problems. I am sorry to say it seem like every year we were meeting more and more. The message of caring for others, being kind, and other life skills were reaching our student body.The parents of this first student who died in the accident were very heart-broken this was their only child. I remember sitting with them for several hours talking with them, crying with them and praying with them.I had a package to give them upon leaving. I told them this was my gift to them.In the package was something I did with my students. We would do little five minutes plays in which they learn the words. We acted it out in different places around the school. The plays were all school related which made it super easy for the students to do them.Here is the GREAT part I would bring my video camera from home. Back then it was VHS, I would take record the five minutes video. I always made several copies for the classroom. The students love watching themselves and laughing.Upon leaving the day of the funeral I gave the mother and father, one of the video of their son acting as the Principal of the school—he was all dress up in a suit(mine) and had one of my ties on. Wow, what a great job he did.I hug the mother and dad and said my good-byes and told them any time they would like me to come over please call me.We were having a Parent night about three years later, the mother of this student came in my classroom. We hug each other and I ask how things were going. She told me, “Gary, it has been real rough getting through losing our son. But it took three years before I could sit down and watch the video you gave of our son. “She reached out and grab my hand squeezing tightly, “Gary, my husband and I set down just this week and watch the video. We both cried because we miss him so much. I am so glad you took the video.”She squeezed my hand harder. “We had no pictures of him talking and you gave us his voice back. I have watched the video so many times. I want to thank you so much Mr. Gary Wittmann for being there for our son. We could see that he really like you as a teacher and he was starting to make a better grades in school with all the help you did with him.”“Gary, I want to let you know what you mean to me in giving this video gift of my son. I was able to move forward after three years of crying”She got up and gave me a hug.I wish I could say this was the last student of mine to pass away. I can’t. Everyone of my students would have a card for their wallet/purse. On the card was my name, address and phone number. The card said if you every get in trouble, need help, get kick out of the house or you feel you might hurt yourself—-call me anytime day or night.Did it work? Yes, several of my students had been kicked out of the house. We took them in for one night and work in order to get to school and back home or to a safe place. Did it work? Several students who were drinking called me and ask me if they could get pick up. We did and I would called their parents and let them know they were at my house sleeping on the couch. My wife and I would have this person for the night and would take them home in the morning or even that night. This was what I would do when asking the parent for their advice.I guess what I learn was:Treat each student with respect. Ask and teach them how to respect each other.I used complement each and every day. We had something called the Ranger Gram. There were rectangle green cards and on them I would write complement to my student about their day, grades and behavior. They were sign and date and I always sent the students now to the Principal’s office for his signature as well. (This was done so that the Principal got to see the good stuff my students were doing. (I have to tell you my Principal Mr Hagedorn was my presenter of my retirement speech to the faculty in 2007. He had stated that among any member on the staff—I used more Ranger Grams than the whole faculty. He told the story of what I did for several years with the classes of my Special Education Students. I had started to tape all the Ranger Grams to my classroom walls for all the student to see their success. One year we had three and one/half walls cover from the ceiling to the floor in Ranger Grams. It took us two days to take them and sort them by students and put them in bags to take home. (The students and I had so much fun in reading again. )Every day I would bring in a motivating story or song or poem about working to be successful. I have to tell you this came back to me in the year 2014 from a student who called me up on Thanksgiving Day. He said Mr. Wittmann this is *******. Do you remember me? I said, “Yes I do. I remember you decided to quit school because you could understanding Algebra. I remember working with you, asking you to come in before or after school or I would come to your house while your parents were home and we would work at the kitchen table.” He said< “I remember the stories you would tell about conquering our fears. You told us how to do it. He said to me on the phone. “Mr. Wittmann, I went back to school and got my G.E.D and than went to college and work on my Algebra, Trig.and finally graduated with my Civil Engineering Degree.” I will tell you I was standing with tears of joy running down my face. I was on cloud nine the rest of the day because of his success. The amazing thing in 2016, this student had heard I was in the hospital from one of my other student. He drove up to the hospital which was a two hours drive and made my day. He is married to an EHarmony wife and have two wonderful daughters. I had been in the hospital for almost three months and I was surprise at the number of cards, phone calls and visits I got from students and parents of my students. Yes, I did cried and laugh but you know it really made my day to hear their success and stories about school.If I had one thing to say to teachers—when you approach your class. Be positive that class will be great. ( I will very honest with you some times this was extremely hard—things that affect us out side the classroom like getting written up by the Principal, being chew out or a students really exploding in class. They do effect your mood.)Thank you for letting me share this story. I hope you appreciate it.

Okay I have been a silent observer in quora till now but this question made me to open up :DWell studying in the same school where your parents work is a mixture of both good and bad things. Actually its how you make bad things into good ones.I was put up in a school where my dad works as a higher secondary physics teacher. A strict one too. From lkg to 10th I was there. There is a rule in our school stating that if their children are studying in a certain class then that teacher will not be given that class . dumb rule though. So I dint have the privilege to sit in my dad's class :(So let me start with the pros now:1. During my primary classes if the classes are boring or if I feel like going home I always fake my illness mostly stomach ache or fever so that my dad wud come and take me home :D for other Students it's a tuff task.2. If I feel like eating in the canteen I can always walk into the staff room and get all the money I want for the awesome food in the canteen :D sometimes even some senior students come in search of me and give me the money :D3. No one will ever mess with you or rag you . your seniors, classmates no one ever will do such things:D4. I know most of the teachers and sub staff working in the school. One physics lab assistant who is close to me during those days will help me in my practical classes in 9th and 10th with readings and stuff. Even in 10th board I had some help :D5. Another things is I won't even tell my dad if the report card comes cuz he will tharsh me like anything for the poor marks secured by me. So I ll hide it somewhere and on the submission date I ll go to his room in the mrng when it's heavily crowded and get it signed cuz he won't scold in front of others :P :D6. I took my cycle to school in 6th itself as it is permitted only for students 8th and above.7. Never got any form signed at home. Everything at school only. If parents signature is asked on something I can get it immediately and give it back.8. Finally warning pass in all standards if it's not for my dad then I wud have still stayed in 5th std :D 5A to be precise :DNow for the cons :(1. Can't even enjoy, what ever u do even if u sneeze or cough the news will reach him somehow .2. I stayed away from all girls in my batch fearing that what wud happen if my dad sees me talking to some girl. (I was shy too ) :P3. I have to go early to school with dad :( since my dad school timings is a bit early from my primary timing he ll take me with him as he can't come and pick me up again. I used to finish all the unfinished home work in that time :P and yeah I ll steal cricket balls also which wil be scattered after mrng cricket coaching in my school :D (one adv of going early ) :P4.I wil be always scared to stand outside my class for not finishing up any home work what if my dad sees omg I am finished but still I won't finsh those things and wil stand out eventually :P one or two times have got caught and the rest is history :P5. And the hardest part is the confusion whether to call him sir or appa (tamil word for dad) and most of the time after a long battle inside my head when I try to call him sir my tougue says "appa" and the stare he gives when I call him like that in front others -_-6. Every day is a PTA meet for me :D so my dad never attends one separately :P7.people always asks you whether he has come today or not, whether test is today not ,asking me to postpone the test , asking imp questions for exams as if he will tell me all the questions ,bugy at times. And I have tried to sneak peak once but then after that he never sets question papers at home -_- unlucky me.Only once my nightmare has come true my dad invigilating my exam. When I saw him entering the hall in which I was seated I thot of quiting the exam and running away. But cudnt do that. Not even once I have stayed for full 2hrs for exams but that day I had to stay. When getting mainsheet, additional sheet and question paper and all I used to look down and smile like a newly wedded bride entering into the first night Hall. :P and after submitting the paper he took and started reading -_- I ran away from that place.Once my dad also came for invigilation for my bro at that time even after the exam Bell one student was studying my dad many times askes him to stop studying and come inside but that boy dint obey and kept on studying my dad got angry went out and threw the book away from that boy :D my bro was dumbstruck by seeing this and sealed his lips for the rest of the exam :PThat's all for now I ll further add on if anything comes to my mind.