Girls Bullying in High School

My daughter is a freshman in high school. There is another girl who has bullied her since 5th grade, when we moved to this area and the other girl perceived my daughter becoming friends with another girl in our neighborhood as "stealing" her best friend.Over the years this girl has frequently verbally abused my daughter, used manipulation to encourage other kids on the school bus to ostracize my daughter and threatened to fight her. She gets in fights often and my daughter really isn't interested in getting punched in the face so she generally tries to avoid this girl.We moved over the summer and my daughter no longer rides that bus which I hoped would fix things but now, in 9th grade, this kid is stalking my daughter at school - showing up in the locker room and trying to "fight" her, showing up in front of one of her classes and not allowing my daughter to enter the room by pushing her. The school administration was aware of this but really just gave her a slap on the wrist. The bully has been in three other fights so far this school year.On a human level, I feel bad for the girl. She has a terrible home life - drugs and a dad in jail, no money and zero parental guidance as her mother has men in and out of her life. It isn't her fault she's so rotten, she's never been shown another way but now I'm in mama bear mode and she doesn't get my sympathy.This week she took it too far and while I've tried not to get too involved up to this point - at my daughter's urging - this time when the other girl posted a truly nasty thing on SnapChat, attempting to start a really ugly rumor about my girl stating that my daughter shared nudes with some random guy "fingering herself" etc. I lost it.I called the police, nonemergency number, because I'm fed up with no one holding this kid accountable for her actions and this was after school hours. They told me to contact the school's resource officer - basically their on duty cop at the high school.I met with the officer, assistant principal and the gentleman in charge of their school ISS room yesterday. We had a long talk about what has been going on and my fears that this isn't going to stop and will only escalate because that kid has nothing to lose and MY kid has everything to lose if that girl decides to attack my daughter. She's malicious and I fear for my kid's safety. My daughter told me she doesn't walk alone in the halls ever because of this - how sad is that?The school met with my daughter today and said they'd like to put the other girl on "bullying watch" which basically means if this girl is caught bullying my daughter or anyone else, it's a three strikes you're out policy where she would then be sent to an alternative school. The other girl already skips class and school frequently, so there are other behavior issues they are managing as well.They asked if my daughter was okay with this decision, because they will have to tell the other girl she's being watched and they're concerned it might escalate things. My daughter told them to move forward with it.While I am glad something is now officially being done, I'm feeling terrified this girl might try to really hurt my daughter now to retaliate. "Snitches get stitches" and all that.I don't know what I'm looking for here, advice, reassurance we are doing the right thing? I'm just feeling really frightened for my poor kid. School is tough enough without having to deal with this crap too. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2yydmLV