I wonder if anyone can help. My son in year 7, having always been a confident and social child is now experiencing widespread rejection at secondary school. It started small but increasingly has spread to other children who I can only assume are targeting him out of fear that they will themselves be rejected by the masses. I have no idea why this is happening, it is extremely distressing. Does anyone have any idea what a child should say that is confronted with phrases like "You have no friends", "No one likes you", "Go away, go as far away from me as possible", "You can't walk with us", "You can't sit next to me", "You are just really weird/dumb/ugly...". My son is none of these things, and yet these phrases are banded about by an increasing number of children. Children that he thought were his friends are rejecting him, children that he has never had anything to do with are treating him as if they are enemies. I just don't know what to advise him to say, I would do role play with him if I knew. He is not dumb or ugly or weird or annoying... he is just a happy normal and friendly boy, I feel utterly grief stricken and furious but also wholly inadequate that I don't know how to help him. Even his close friend has failed to contact him in the last 6 days, he is now off school and not a text has passed between them. I couldn't be more saddened or disappointed. I have had a meeting with the school but very little has changed. It is so damaging to my son. Can anyone advise?