School unable to identify sexual harassment perpetrator and are doing nothing

Furthermore if I were your daughter I would wear trousers.

Whilst I can see why people are suggesting this, that simply plays into the narrative that "she's asking for it". Girls and women should be able to wear whatever the want without risk of assault and harassment.

From experience and anecdotal information, absolutely nothing at all.

Why haven’t you reported it to the Police. Furthermore if I were your daughter I would wear trousers. Of course this doesn’t negate at all the need for action against the boys. It’s disgraceful behaviour.

The way the school should do it is:
Get each boy in on their own, give them a rocket about how serious this is, then say "Who was it? The others all said it was you." That gets the truth out of them.

This type of scenario is the reason crimes like "allowing a child to come to harm" had to be defined, because otherwise both halves of a couple who harm a child can say "the other one did it".

It's ridiculous that a school can let them get away with just saying "it was someone else". Good luck OP and I hope your daughter can get some closure.

Is this an example of joint enterprise? The teachers should absolutely be treating them all as participants as they have acknowledged they were there and saw the skirt lifted.

I would go to headmaster and say that he is leaving you with no choice and that you have to register the incident with the police and let them know that school is ignoring sexual harrasment.
The school should call in parents of those boys and talk to them that unless they cooperate they will be suspended as they are part of it.

There is no excuse for school that tolerates such behaviour. If they tolerate it then the kids will cross also other barriers. I am not saying that the boy who has done it should be kicked out of the school but a suspension for a week would help him process it and his peers to learn what is right or wrong.

If they watched their mate sexually assault someone and did nothing, laughed/encouraged it on that is joint enterprise. they are assisting him in covering up as well.

and they absolutely can punish them all.

The police will need a named perpetrator in order to investigate but they will log it as a crime against your daughter, you could name all those involved as perpetrators but when she does the statement it will become apparent that they haven't all assaulted her and I suspect it will go nowhere, but it should be pushed for the school to separate this group from the wider school at breaks given they appear to be a risk to others or name and shame in a school assembly but I can imagine the reactions of the rest of the parents!

The group as a whole Should be punished! By sitting back and keeping their mouths shut they are complicit.

I'd be pushing for the whole group of boys to be punished collectively as they are all complicit.

Doesn't matter if they did it they still all celebrated it collectively.

I reach on if nothing else it a) sends the right message and b) might make them stop protecting each other if they aren't protected collectively.

But I agree about refusing to send her in until they take action.

You have to wonder what they'd do it it happened to a teacher..

I would not let this rest. A couple of suggestions:

Contact the police
Involve the govenors
Make it clear on school fb groups that this is unacceptable - some parents won't care, of course, but if I got wind of this (as the mother of two teenage boys) I would be questioning them on what they knew!
Have meetings with both the head and your daughter's tutor and make it very clear you will not let this drop until a clear plan of action has been agreed/instigated. This should include an assembly to make it very clear that this behaviour is unacceptable.

Basically start a massive campaign and do not let it drop. Sometimes you have to force the school to take action. Try and get some other mothers behind you if you can.

Go to the police. Complain formally to school and take it all the way to governors. It's not just sexual bullying there is sex discrimination here from the school.

Hiding in the library won't protect her anyway. I used to hide in the library a lot as a teen. I remember taking all different routes trying to get there safely. It will become a game for them get your dd before she's safe in the library.

You can’t punish all the boys for sexual assault.
You can punish them all for failing to report a sexual assault.

You can call the group in and give them extra work around sex based violence until they stop finding it funny.

I don't know how secondary schools deal with it, but I know how we would deal with it is an employment situation. We would sanction all the males - and in a second incident we would dismiss them all. Neither work nor school are courts of law - you don't need to know which person did it. You have a reasonable belief that it happened and therefore they are all as guilty as each other.

Write to the governors and inform the police and ofsted.

All the boys would be in isolation at our school

Act as a group, be sanctioned as a group, surely? Did your DD report the incident at the time or not until the CCTV had been deleted? It’s not ok for your DD to have to change her behaviour. I would escalate to governors as a safeguarding failure and to the police - these children are over the age of criminal responsibility and need a fright to remind them they can’t get away with this sort of behaviour.

One of the boys is probably a teachers son or something. Call the police.

Whilst I agree the school should do something I doubt very much the criminal system would find them all guilty. It barely finds actual rapists guilty so I doubt it would for this

I don’t disagree with you. It’s appalling behaviour but I can just envisage it ending up in a stand off & nothing being resolved. Even worse, the boys involved loving the attention, the attack on school by parents whose kids can’t put a foot wrong, refusing to stay for detention/isolation etc…then what. Someone upthread mentioned permanent exclusion for the group - not a chance that would make it though a review panel. It is incredibly difficult to perm ex now…& if you do, you usually then end up having to take another pupil from a local school who is perm ex or edge of.

So the OP needs to ensure that she is causing more nuisance and noise than those boys' parents are.

challenge accepted IMO.

No no. The victim doesn't get their freedom curtailed while the offenders waltz around carefree.

The group of boys should be on supervised library "rest" until they get a sudden attack of memory.

Quite apart from your daughter's needs, these boys need to learn pronto that there are unpleasant consequences for both sexual harassment and for covering for a sexual harasser.

Escalate to govenors and police.

This school is missing a valuable opportunity.

Own up, speak up or be punished as a group.

Behave badly as a group, be punished as a group. This is what would happen if they committed a crime within the community.

School should also contact the local
community Policing team
and ask them to pay a visit.

I wouldn’t be able to let this go.

In my previous school, punishing the whole group would have led to absolute outrage from the parents of the group. It’s a nightmare. I agree this is what should happen but the pushback from parents is now horrendous. I’ve had parents in reception screaming that we’re holding their darlings hostage in detention, against human rights, questioning every decision.