At the swimming pool yesterday my 14 year old DD was spat on and called a 'Ho' by a 12/13 year old boy.
She was waiting in the communal shower area (where there's no CCTV). It was totally random. She'd had no interaction with the group of boys in the pool beforehand, although I noticed the boys jumping in too close to my DCs so they were perhaps already spoiling for trouble, my DCs just ignored them and carried on playing. While DD was waiting (for me) outside the showers, they got out and started running back and forwards past her, this is when it happened.
When I spoke to the lifeguards, one of them told me the same boys had been in the day before and spat at someone else.
I got dressed, went to the manager and insisted the boys were chucked out pronto. To say I kicked up a bit of a fuss would be putting it lightly.
The manager treated me as if I was the person causing the problem. Which meant I had to shout even louder until he actually understood the seriousness of the situation.
The boys then called DD a snitch, bitch and told her they were going to smash me in the face (Naaice...I'm 6 months pregnant BTW). At one point, I could feel everything start to tighten and had to do some serious deep breathing to calm myself down.
The pool isn't local to us (thank goodness). I've reported it to the police who were very understanding and took it surprisingly seriously considering their ages. They're going to pay a visit to the pool and try and have a chat with the boy (if the manager was doing his job properly and got his address).
I am livid. Why wasn't this boy dealt with the first tie this happened? Why were they allowed back in? Have I done enough?