My teenage stepdaughter has been caught being a bully to another kid just because she's poor,

mocking her because she doesn't have a lot of money, while also acting like a spoiled rotten brat.

So I decided to punish her and put her in her place for acting like a bully and treating people like garbage and now as a result I'm being called a jerk and I'm not sure if I went just a little bit too far.

Here's what happened.

So about two months ago my wife and I learned

that my stepdaughter who's 16 was bullying a girl at school over being poor as

well as getting free lunch at school and not being able to afford necessities such as her own car

and other stuff like that. Now our daughter was kind of spoiled. We provided her

with everything she needed along with an allowance and a part-time job at my company, and we own a small family

service business.

We've been considered middle class, doing things that other people weren't as privileged to do,

such as buying our daughter a car on her 16th birthday.

I come from a family of immigrants and was considered in poverty growing up.

So after learning about the bullying, I was furious as we thought we didn't raise her to behave that way.

She was in honors and top ranking of her class.

I tried to talk to our daughter over why she would do that,

and I was disturbed to learn.

It was because she viewed that girl as trailer trash, which really irritated me.

The girl from what I learned is very smart and works hard.

She bought her own beater car all by herself and works two jobs. She considered the money our

family had as our family's money so I put her in her place and told her that it was

not her money but instead it's my money and her mom's money so I decided from that point I was spoiling my daughter too much.

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