I go to a pretty small school, only around 600 students from preschool to 12th grade and we are a very open community, in all the 8 years I’ve attended I’ve never seen “bullying” happen so I was really surprised when my friends and I noticed that a 9th grade boy was being bullied, or at the very least being excluded by his classmates from any socializing. From what I’ve seen isn’t physical abuse, but kinda verbal. they don’t talk to him if he sits on the same table as him, they don’t play with him during recess and we saw a couple of other kids from 9th grade telling him to go away when he asked if he could play a game with them in the library. I know this might sound mediocre or that we should mind my own business but we can’t help but worry that it would continue on for longer or start to escalate. The student’s new which already makes it hard to find friends but this has been going on since late August when our school year began and I wish there was something we could do. Do you have any suggestions?
(Btw I’m a junior/11th grader and I feel like I might make the situation even worse if I try to talk to him)