My son started at the local catholic ofsted outstanding school sept 2018. Within the space of a few weeks my son was labelled as a trouble maker.
As a side note I want to make it clear that I know my son isnt an angel and that he can as all children, be disruptive, stroppy and a general pain.
HOWEVER over the last year my son has gone from a confident happy kid to begging me to homeschool him.
He has been called stupid, "special" (and provided a special desk and chair), dumb, the N word by teachers. He was pushed and shoved by a teacher which we complained about and the teacher apologised. He was then suspended for fighting, but when the CCTV was released he wasnt even in the fight. No apology, nothing, yet the suspension remains on his record.
Throughout his first year we wondered whether we should move him but I felt that may cause more disrruption as his grades where great and I was in constant communication with his head of year so felt it would settled.
I have challenged everytime my son has complained about an incident at school and have it in writing via email.
Move forward to year 8 and it all started very positive he had a new set of teachers and was doing well.
Then an incident happened. My son told me he was in trouble with a guy on social media. I cant really go into detail as the trial is coming up soon but it was a kind of gang grooming situation. My son was being threatened by this guy who knew our address and was threatening to kill our family.
My son explained that some of his friends had also been contacted. Obviously we went to the police and reported it to the school. I hoped that the school would hold some sort of assembly informing year 8 parents of what was reported and making sure everyone was vigilant with their childs online communication.
Instead my son was attacked by a group of older kids for being a grass and strangled. A few days later a parent attacked him on school grounds. Luckily I was with him so managed to protect him from being assaulted.
Rumours started circulating within the school community that my son was a gangster. Still the school did nothing but invite my son to leave as they couldn't guarantee his safety.
We asked the school to reconsider but instead they dropped him. No support whilst he was home no work sent nothing. And yet no assembly or communication warning other parents.
I have various emails and I have asked the head to let me know exactly what the school has done to safeguard the children and what they have done to carry out their duty of care and yet nothing. I've also asked the governors to respond and again nothing.
I have moved my son schools and he is much happier but I am really questioning whether Ofsted should be informed. I keep thinking of how many other boys have and continue to be affected by this and no-one has done anything about it.
Is it worth reporting to Ofsted?
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Memina · 05/06/2020 21:26
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