Child threatened to kill my child

Ah yes, the Drip Feed. Aka 'the post isn't going my way' response.

Absolutely this!

That's one hell of a drip feed.

The school need to deal with it. You should report it and leave them to decide on the appropriate course of action. I would make it clear that you expect them to deal with it effectively enough that your child is not bullied or threatened again.

Well then you report this charmer to social services is what you do. Seems no one else is bothered with this boy.

Oh, Ok, the scissors close to her eye is worthy of serious address and punishment, indeed.
It is not just a verbal threat, but a physical threat, following previous bullying.
Take it up with the school indeed. They need to intervene on this one, pronto.

Then you need to contact the schools safeguarding team or lead. Not because I think your dd is in any actual physical danger, but because this is a child who is seeing / hearing things outside school that he is copying - without understanding them.

I would also talk to them about the relationship your dd and this child has because while the physical threats are one thing, the other bullying behaviour is another.

Little kids say and do stupid shit all the time. Report it.

Even without the scissors to the eye, he would still needs consequences. Of course a 7 year old isn’t serious when they make threats but he needs to learn. Why are people so afraid to punish children for bad behaviour? He also needs some serious intervention to find out where that behaviour is coming from.

Drip feed there OP. Hope the school are dealing with it.

Well the physical act of holding scissors up to her eye is obviously much more serious than words said by a 7 year old that are given no context.

how are the school dealing with it? Who witnessed the incident?

7? That's well old enough to be punished. This would not be tolerated at my ds school. This would be an exclusion for the day at the very minimum and taken very serious with parents called in etc. I'm a bit surprised that people are so casual about this on here.

If holding scissors to eyes please report to school!

Need the full story. Children that age very good at stretching the truth too. Tbh it's very normal for 7 year olds to say that to each other than 2 minutes later are playing happily together. I've a 7 year old and my experience is its usually both children that have said things.

Excluded? They need to be taken aside and talked to about how wrong what they have done is and check that they got it.
I would take them off the activity they were doing / fighting about at the time, and ask them to apologise, but not exclude them from school, that is, if they have not hit anyone.

Depends on the area the school can choose to take it seriously (or not). Yes there are schools where kids this young are in gangs and your child may be in real danger — but I’m guessing if that were the case you might have already contacted the police?

Wouldn't it make more sense to get the school to contact said child's parents?

People, including adults, say this sort of thing as a figure of speech all the time. Things like 'I'll kill you if you pinch that last doughnut, you've already had one' or 'Right, you're dead for that' when someone plays a prank on you or something.

Children, in genuine anger, will also say all sorts of unpleasant things and clearly do not mean them. This is a seven-year-old. They are clearly not making a genuine or credible threat to kill your child and you need to get a grip.

Need the actual account. But at 7, excluding them would be ott

We need more information.

Were they playing a game ? Kids often play games that involve killing a baddie.

Adults say it all the time but wouldn’t actually kill someone. “My husband’s gone to work with the car seat in his car again. I’m going to kill him when he gets home “

Did they say it in anger or did they say it calmly ? i wouldn’t judge a child who said it in retaliation.

There isn’t going to be a suspension for that 😂 If the circumstances are that this child said it menacingly and scared your child then a missed playtime of missed golden time is the most that you can expect.

They are a 7 year old, just need to talk to them.

No, that's a kid saying they're annoyed and feel angry

Cos they're 7

I used to tell my sister all the time I was going to kill her. Pretty normal at that age, ot nice but very common.

Its not a real threat, it's just words. It is however a bullying issue so I would expect it to be dealt with and taken as serious as any other typical bullying offence.