"Do we move her from this school or is it teaching her to run away?"
For us it's easier to stand against a group of children.
But your daughter is a child herself.
Imagine that you're being bullied every day by a group of adults. Is it only verbal or also physical abuse? Imagine you being in that position. You against adults and that every single work day.
Standing up for yourself is not always the answer.
Sometimes the others are simply to strong to handle for one person.
Would you fight/stand up for yourself, if you're against 2 or more adults? Both looking stronger then you? Or would you try to avoid the confrontation?
The school should do more against it.
Not only for your daughter, but also for the other kids.
Usually there's something wrong with the children that bully. It could be anything from just feeling insecure to being abused or neglected at home.
It's the schools duty to have a look at that when one or more decided to go and pick on someone.
Even if your girl would somehow find a way for them to loose interest in her. Even then the school won't be rid of the problem. This girl or girls will just find someone else to pick on.
The problem doesn't lie with your daughter. She was just there on the wrong place on the wrong time.
Just being an easy target for them and that's how it usually starts.
Maybe try to get the school to wake up and do something about the situation.
But I'd bring my child to a better school and to a defense class. Something like judo or something else. That if something happens she won't have to feel so scared, because she can defend herself when things turn nasty.
You won't learn her to run away and just be scared. You'll learn her that sometimes it's best to ignore people and the problem isn't hers it's theirs. There's nothing wrong with her.
No need to stay somewhere, where you don't have any friends. It's absolutely a waist of your time to be anywhere or do anything that totally makes you feel miserable.
You'll learn her that there'll always be others who do like you. If you haven't found them yet, then go and find them. Maybe she'll find them at the next school if not then the one after that.
Same as we'd do with a job. Would you stay and work for years in a place where you're being bullied by your colleges?
I wouldn't and I think most of us would go and find a better place to work.
Why would a child have to stay at a school where she's being bullied? Nothing at all wrong with leaving that place.
It's more important to turn your back to these bullies and be happy then to stay and let them ruin your life.
It's so worth it!!!
She and you're suffering. Probably her schoolwork is suffering as well. On a different school where she feels better she'll probably also work harder and get better marks.
That'll be so important for the rest of her life! Having good qualifications, usually also means getting a better job when you're finished with school/learning.
You don't want to ruin that just to show a bunch of bullies that you can handle them. Would you?
Personally I think it's totally not worth it. Get her to a defense class and to a much better school then this one.
Take care,
Sylvia