Im not going to namechange as this will out me anyway to people I know but I'm past caring.
My 6 year old son is in Primary 2, and ever since he started Primary school he has had issues on and off with being bullied. He's a sensitive boy and not rough and tumble, which seems to make him a target as a lot of the other boys in his school are boisterous and quite rough.
So we had issues in P1, and we had meetings with head teacher etc as my son was crying scared to go to school at times and he was a nervous wreck :( Things would calm down, then it would slowly go back to namecalling, hitting on the fly etc.
This year (from August) a few new families moved to the school, and to be perfectly honest they're a nightmare. One family has a boy that is 5 who has been suspended a few times already, is violent, disruptive and generally a pain in the backside. The parents think it is funny (you hear them in playground laughing about it with others) I'm fully aware that families have their problems and we don't know what happens behind closed doors so we've always went down the route of going to school, putting in a complaint that son was hit, kicked, scratched etc.
Last few months there has been no consistency with the school as head teacher moved on and there is yet to be a head appointed, so the place is a bit chaotic. The teachers still lovely, staff friendly etc but the unruly kids seem to be taking over.
The violence has increased, and daily you can see a group of boys fighting in the playground before 9am! I mean kicking, punching, swearing. And this is 5,6,7 year olds.
Anyway, to get to the point my son was targeted by this group quite a few times this year and it got to the stage the boys weren't allowed out to play at lunch time or playtime as they were so violent. But the little one in P1 got hold of my son one day as he was going to the toilet during classtime, swore at him and kicked him in between the legs really hurting him. My son ended up with a huge bruise and I understandably told the school I was sick to the back teeth of it.
So the school promised to sort it out - how, I don't know - and for a few weeks things were quiet again.
Now it has been creeping up slowly and we've had enough. We've requested to local council to be moved to another school. We've visited the school, children love it, everything is so calm, much more staff and consistency and just seems better suited.
My OH has been very much "If one more thing happens to him I'm pulling him out of that school" for a few months now out of sheer annoyance at how upset our son is each morning about going to school.
Fast forward to Friday, he was pushed on the grass, hit a few times then kicked in the private area between his legs. By the same little P1.
We don't WANT our son back in that environment! School ends in 11 days (scotland) and my OH is very much saying he's NOT going.
So if you got this far THANK YOU. I know OH is NBU to feel this way but I feel it will put a bad impression on us at the new school if we tell the school that he's not coming in end of story! I fear we may end up with truancy officer etc but I'm at a complete loss.
What on earth can we do?! WIBU to just keep him off these last days of term and claim he is ill!?
Please don't flame me for the suggestion, I'm just one very tired, lost parent
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6 yr old being assaulted at school
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Sickofthesnow · 15/06/2014 13:36
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