Grade 8 student Sadie Lynes says she knew the bullying was getting bad over the Christmas break.

Sadie goes to Sands Secondary in North Delta and has just finished her grade 8 year, but it has not been an easy one.

She says she has been bullied by one girl in particular, who has posted status updates on Facebook about Sadie taking her own life and telling people not to be friends with her.

The school has told Sadie and her mom perhaps the solution is for Sadie to move schools.

But Sadie’s mom Liz does not think it’s fair Sadie has to move schools and the girl allegedly bullying her gets to stay with no real consequences.

On one occasion the girl did get suspended when she apparently came up to Sadie, who was on her way to watch some basketball games, and told her she was going to kill her.

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“She came up to me and was like ‘when did I ever say I was going to beat you up?’ and then she said ‘you’re so done after school I’m going to kill you, like you’re so done’,” says Sadie.

A teacher overheard and helped Sadie down to the office and told a counselor, who then called the other girl down to the office as well. But Sadie was told she should just probably go home and not stay at the school to watch the basketball games because it “wasn’t safe.”

“She got suspended for a day when she came up to me and told me she was going to kill me, but then she got it extended for four days because she kept writing things on the Internet,” says Sadie.

Liz says she feels the school doesn’t know how to deal with the problem.

“They always say they need solid proof, and sometimes that’s really hard to get,” she says. “In my opinion I feel they just think it’s easier to send my daughter home, switch schools, they even suggested her not having her cell phone at school so that she can’t read this stuff on the Internet, whereas the other student gets to go to school, gets to have her phone, gets to watch basketball games, gets to stay in her regular classes, gets to carry on.”

She says the school has told her the messages online are just untrackable and untraceable so there is little they can do.

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“I get disgusted, I get angry,” says Liz.

She is worried because Sadie has been saying that she wishes she could die, and she used to get good grades but has had attendance problems since the bullying started, now she’s failing two classes.

“When your child just comes home crying and saying they just want to die, no child should have to go through that, and the person that’s doing that, nothing happens to them,” says Liz.

A spokesperson for the school district says the school takes this very seriously, and when complaints are made the administration will investigate that and then disciplinary action would be put in place.

She would not talk specifically about this case, but did say repeat offenders are taken more seriously.