It's not just American schools that have problems with bullies. Little Princess Aiko, the eight-year-old granddaughter of the Japanese Emperor, is too sick to go back to her exclusive private school because of suffering a series of anxiety attacks and tummy aches.
FEAR AT SCHOOL
The second-grader appears to be adventurous and athletic, as seen in the photo, right. However, "rough behavior" at the hands of boys at Gakushuin school in central Tokyo, have caused her "feelings of fear," reports The Times (UK).
"Word of the mysterious anxiety attacks emerged at a regular press conference of the Imperial Household Agency -- the opaque bureaucratic institution that surrounds and protects the world's oldest royal family from the public glare," says the London newspaper.
Yes, but not from school bullies.
Princess Aiko, the 8-year-old only child of Crown Prince Naruhito, heir to Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne, has been kept out of school for a week over her fears of boys who "treated her harshly," the country's Daily Mainichi newspaper reports.
ANXIETY AND TUMMY ACHES
No one has reported any specifics of what actually happened to create her fears, causing the anxiety and tummy aches. The BBC reports: "It was found she and other students in her class had been 'treated harshly' by boys in another class."
If a real princess of the world's oldest royal family cannot be kept safe from bullies in school, what hope is there for the rest of the kids in the world?
And then when they grow up, they get bullied at work, where the anxiety tummy aches turn into chronic irritable colon. And so it goes...
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by Sharon McEachern
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