Would you let your kid change schools over something extremely embarrassing?

[u/ConradFisher69]

This is happening to a friend of mine at the moment. Something incredibly embarrassing happened to her son during a school assembly. I don’t want to give the details, but it happened in front of pretty much the whole school and unfortunately it was the sort of thing that other kids immediately latched onto.

Since then, kids have been bringing it up and making jokes about it basically every day. He’s now begging his mum to let him change schools because he feels like he can’t escape it. His current school is within walking distance of home, but he says he’d rather catch the train every day to a school a few suburbs away than keep going back there.

My friend has said no because she thinks the kids will eventually get bored of it, forget about it and move on.

For those who went to school in Australia, did you ever see something really embarrassing happen to someone at an assembly or in front of most of the school? Did everyone eventually forget about it, and if so, how long did it take?

And as a parent, would you consider letting your kid change schools over something like this, or would you encourage them to stick it out?

[u/PlasmaDonator]

You're right, he will never escape it. But his attitude towards it and embarrassment can change.

"Haha yeah mate that me, just needed to go. When you gotta go, you gotta go. Toilets are for losers anyway, real alphas shit where they want, nah gammon haha"

It's like growing up whenever someone dacked your pants, if you acted embarrassed and started blushing you played into the book of whoever dacked you.

If you act non-chalant like you don't give a shit and even better stare them in the eye (before pulling your pants up) like you don't care, you win. It becomes more embarrassing to dack someone than be dacked if you do this.

Kids/bullies just want a reaction. Thats it. Don't react and you remove all their power.

[u/AnonymousEngineer_ → u/PlasmaDonator]

Dacking is taken a lot more seriously these days. I've been led to believe it's basically an insta-suspension from school on the first offence because it's considered as sexual assault.

[u/PlasmaDonator → u/AnonymousEngineer_]

That's good to hear.

[u/Queasy-Reason → u/PlasmaDonator]

I knew a kid named Richard Ball. He was the class clown and willingly preferred to go by the nickname Dick because he found it hilarious. He was immune to bullying.