Disability teasing.

[MarinaDuval]

Could I ask how you would expect your school to react, if your older teen was being verbally teased about his disability?
I don't want to post anything identifying, but would like to know what my expectations should be. What I would like to do would no doubt have me arrested, I am furious about it.

Depends on the age of the kids as things need to handled in different ways sometimes it's just a matter of education sometimes it's a bollocking

They will always point out differences but bullying is u acceptable

I would expect them to evoke the usual bullying policy with escalations as appropriate.

Next week is National Anti bullying week, so I be asking them what they’re doing about it. Your son has a protected characteristic so if they’re over 10 you could involve police.

They are all older teens.

The phrase your looking for his bullying. Who is doing it ‘friends’, one person or a number of people. Can you give an example of the kind of thing which is been said or done or an example which is similar?

If the school are not interested I would definitely see if they are interested when the police go knocking. They are old enough kids to know far better.

Agree, it isn't teasing, it's bullying.

It's a small group of non friends. DS's disability is physical, I don't want to be identifying, but it's imitating him and words like weirdo and m*ng -ffs.

I’d report to the police as a hate crime given they’re picking on a protected characteristic.

As above. I’d report to the police. It will be a lesson.

Report to school, preferably with dates, times and locations of specific instances as well as names of perpetrators. It's much more likely that school can successfully investigate with specific and detailed information.
Ask your child to consider what actions he'd like to be taken, e.g. an apology, as well as the actions school is required to undertake to comply with its bullying policy.

It is of course bullying, I shouldn't have used the word teasing, but we had issues years ago with far more aggressive bullying, I thought this was less, but really it's actually worse as the kids are older. But previous experience was that disciplining made things worse.
Thank you for the suggestions, we are already in discussion with the school. DS just wants them to stop, but doesn't want a backlash.

In which case I would be speaking to the pastoral lead, be clear that your son is being bullied because of his disability and ask them what they’re going to do to stop this. Ask the pastoral lead for a copy of their bullying policy. It should be on the website but this way they know that you have it.