If there was outright bullying involved or she was being threatened, adults would need to step in. But this sounds like typical girl politics to me. She’s twelve and she has to solve this problem for herself.”
Actively excluding *is* outright bullying. Just because girls prefer ostracisation to punching doesn't make it any less damaging. Stop dismissing girls' bullying as some sort of natural order of things simply because *your* parents didn't take it as seriously as they should have. There's no such thing as "girl politics". There's just being surrounded by girls who are bullying assholes.
