I have taught for 28 years in Queensland schools. My daughter's confidence deteriorated from the moment she began at this school. After being bullied, my daughter's grades dropped. My daughter was bullied to the point that she could not cope and would not walk into the school grounds and as a result  she missed the majority of the school year in Year 8. She tried to return to school at intervals but the same thing would happen all over again. They would not let her repeat Year 8, then she struggled through the first term of  Year 9.  She was receiving Bs in the past and was previously very confident. Now the opposite is true. After being bullied, the school tried to label her as having mental illness. Just because she is a "tall poppy" that is bullied, does not mean she has mental illness. Dropping her to school, I would have to watch that she was not bullied on the way in. Much of the bullying was due to jealousy.There were often threats made to bash her up. She often reported other children being involved in physical fights at school. My daughter felt that nothing was ever done about the bullying. She felt unsafe at school. She is not able to sleep at night, and awakes with feelings that she is going to vomit, because of the anxiety caused by the bullying. Someone said to me that it is like dropping your child off at a prison site each day. I was constantly worried whether my child was safe. My child was the victim of an online situation where a stranger's live inappropriate clip was placed on her group chat. Children are not aware of rules. She was trying to communicate to her friends what had happened. She was suspended, the school referred the situation to the police, the police referred the situation to the Child Protection Investigation Unit, and her enrolment in the AODI dance program was cancelled, affecting her vocational studies. However, another student at the school did exactly the same thing as my daughter, on the same night, was not even called to the office and is still in the AODI program.  Detentions are given for the wrong earrings, but extreme bullying is happening at this school. How can I be the mother of an OP 1 student, then the mother of a beautiful, talented, clever daughter who has been subject to this?  Is it the school?