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Horrible kids on bus, what can I do?

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Psipssina · 04/06/2015 17:22

Ds started his new secondary school on Monday. It's a nice school, but he got punched by an aggressive Y7 and I had a thread about this.

The kid has been in internal exclusion all week until now.

They get the same bus unfortunately. The kid has a friend and ally. Today on the way home, they were both having a go at Ds, another Y7 intervened calmly and got punched in the face while the other one tried to trip him/kick him down the stairs.

The kid started throwing people's bags around and emptied someone's PE kit down the stairs. Throwing bottles at people's heads as well. And then they started telling Ds that they're going to fuck his mum, in great detail which Ds didn't want to repeat to me.

No one told the driver. It's June; surely the school has had time to deal with this situation by now? What on earth should I do - Ds is refusing point blank to get the bus tomorrow. I can take him by car but we'll be late as ds2 is at another school near here.

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SallyMcgally · 04/06/2015 17:27

Lunar's suggestion is better. It was assault.

Psipssina · 04/06/2015 17:27

Do buses have CCTV? I had no idea.

I don't get why the driver did nothing. Maybe he is used to it? Sad

I am hesitant about the police. I fired off an email to the head of house at school, a while ago - think he has gone home but I asked him to contact me tomorrow.

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SallyMcgally · 04/06/2015 17:26

I'd send an e-mail documenting all of this immediately to your son's head of year. The school have a responsibility to ensure that children are safe on the school bus as well. The bully could (should) be banned from the bus for this kind of behaviour. I'd be very firm with the school. I was much too deferential with my son's school - he experienced a great deal of bullying, much of it on the bus, which is one of the worst places - and I've now had to take him out and homeschool him. Bully child needs to have the next most severe sanction brought in and his parents need to be summoned to the school. Disgusting little git - sounds exactly like the kids round here. Hope your poor son is OK.

lunar1 · 04/06/2015 17:26

I'd involve the police, it involves physical violence. The bus probably has cctv.