What to do....

My daughter has had alopecia for 3 years now. It has been a tough road for all of us. I think especially for her and for me. She has endured the relentlessness of children's cruel remarks regarding her hair loss. I witnessed it the other day when a child called her weird. It broke my heart and I told the child that saying that was not nice and to leave her alone. This was after the child coaxed her into taking of her bandana and she trusted this child because this child has been a lifetime friend of hers. She says she isn't normal. That makes me so sad.
On a positive note, my daughter is getting a bio-matrix in a few weeks so she will no longer have to hear "Where is your hair?" "Why do you have bold spots?" "What's that on your head?" "You aren't cool because you don't have hair." "You can't play with the cool kids." and so on. However, my daughter now has that stigma of the bald kid. Kids will remember that she, at one time had no hair.
So I want to change schools. She is in a great school but I hear there is another great school in a city about 25 minutes away from our home. We will have to be a lottery (name drawing) so the chances of her getting in is just that, a chance. I hope we can get her in and change things for her socially. She has so much to offer other children if they would just give her a chance.
I have always known that children can be cruel. I have always told my child to be nice to other children, no matter the ugly things they say or do (and that is hard for me). I have always told my daughter to seek out a child that has no one to play with and play with them. Why can't other parents do the same?

For more information on Alopecia Areata go to
www.http://www.naaf.org/

For more information on how to stop bullying go to http://www.loveourchildrenusa.org/StompOutBullying/index.php