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Why is it that humans, particularly kids, can be so cruel to each other? I look at what is reportedly happening in Ukraine to the civilians caught up in the Russian invasion, and it saddens me.

My daughter is suffering bullying at school from a 'person' (that's being too kind calling her that) that has come to the school this year, and for whatever reason, has taken offence to my daughter and has decided that she needs to be higher in the pecking order than my daughter so is doing all she can to let my daughter know where this 'person' thinks she should be.

My daughter has been very scholastic through school. But this term, her grades have dropped off dramatically. My daughter has wanted to be a dentist for ages, even organising her own work experience locally, and looking at organising more work experience at James Cook University in Cairns. which is where she'd like to do her studies.

But now, because of the social situation at school, she has lost all interest in becoming a dentist. She's lost all hope of being able to achieve the ATAR she needs to get into Uni for dentistry. She's lost all interest in being at school altogether.

She calls me at lunchtime sitting in the toilets crying because she has no one to spend her lunch with. One of the teachers even picks on her because her daughter is in my daughter's class and the teacher seems to think it's ok to run a competition between the two.

It's heart-breaking.

Please, be kind to one another, folks. Life's too short to spend it all being mean to others.