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From my own experience, I remember when a young family member was hysterically crying because she was being so badly bullied at school. You can imagine how terrified we all were—we had visions of her having her head kicked in or something awful. She would not tell us what had happened. We eventually found out she had not been invited by her two friends to the pictures on a Friday evening. I reassured her that she was not being bullied and that she was not to worry. She brought back the school’s anti-bullying policy, which had the words “Exclusion from friendship group: a very serious form of bullying”, and said that I was wrong and she was right. By the way, she made up with her friends.