My little sister keeps getting into fights at school?

Question

So my little sister has been picked on by different girls since the third grade, physically and verbally. Now she is in the sixth grade and a few days ago according to my sister a girl she did not know randomly came up to her and started to beat on her with her fists.

My little sister has good grades, is pretty by defenition and has always been popular with other girls, she is smart and a real good kid. However, sometimes she has beat on my brother and I when she gets pissed off (I am eldest, brother is in the middle and she is youngest)

Now, I am not so sure my sister is as innocent as she would like everyone to believe, she lies a lot to get out of trouble with my parents and she can be very manipulative sometimes.

There is a saying, that family members are the people you know at home. Also according to my sister she doesn't fight back or start anything with these other girls, and my parents are believing her, and I have believed her up til' now, I've started to have my doubts.

I've been in a h**l of a lot of fights in high school and middle school and I know for a FACT that no one will ever start anything with you if you don't give them a reason to, especially a fist fight.

So I am starting to question her truthfulness, I think there may be more to the story than I am hearing (More than my Parents and brother too are hearing too.)

So what do you all think based on what I've told you?

Answer 1

I think she's definitely holding back the truth. When I was 14 I got into fist fights with some of the girls at school. The reason was because they thought I was having s*x with someone's boyfriend, so naturally when I was confronted by my parents and teachers about WHY the fights started....I wasn't going to tell them! How embarrassing would that have been? So I lied and said I didn't know, that they just must not like me.

I'm not saying your sisters up to anything like that of course, she's only in grade 6, but maybe she is embarrassed of whatever the reason is. So I think all you can do, is sit her down and tell her that whatever the problem is, she needs to be the bigger person and walk away.