What’s a mom to do when your non-Japanese baby is bullied at school?

When my Black son was bullied within the first grade of a public elementary faculty in Tokyo a couple of years in the past, I used to be at a loss for what to do.

For weeks, he had been reluctant to go to high school, and I didn’t know the rationale. I believed he was simply taking time to settle in. He spoke Japanese fluently, so the language was not the problem, and at dwelling, he was his ordinary completely satisfied self.

One day, his teacher known as me and requested me to return in for a gathering. She defined that there was a boy within the class who had been bullying my son for some time, however she didn’t inform me till a few months after it first started. She mentioned the college had spoken to the bully, and each he and the boy’s dad and mom had apologized — to not me or my son, nonetheless, however to the college itself.