DS is 10 and in year 5. There is a boy in his year, not class, who clearly has a lot of behavioural problems although he seems a bright articulate boy from my interactions with him over the years. He has come from quite a chaotic background and I’m not sure of any diagnoses he has.
He has either one or two teachers at arms length at all times. He has taken recently to calling my son a fat fuck whenever he sees him. He shouts “you lanky fat fuck” or variations of several times a day whenever he’s sees my son in corridors/canteen/playground. Often there is also a threat I’m going to get you/kill you/destroy you, watch out type of thing. My son is a fairly resilient cheerful type with lots of friends but it does get him down. He has body anxieties anyway as he is carrying extra weight, he’s very very tall (158cm) with size 8 feet and is just generally built like a shit house and he’s not technically very overweight but he’s just big. So it feeds into that and it’s just draining him a bit as it’s constant. If he says anything back he gets told by this boys 1-2-1s that he’s not allowed to engage with him.
He never sees these 1-2-1s castigate this boy for anything he says, obviously we don’t know what else goes on. He says they’ve all been generally told this boy has different needs and to ignore anything nasty he says.
I spoke to the dep head last week as it was getting too much and they were both called in, this boy was made to promise not to name call again which he agreed to. This hasn’t worked as the same things are happening again. He was called a lanky fat fuck again today and when he didn’t respond was taunted “are you going to run and tell mummy again”. The 1-2-1 was there and didn’t say anything.
I have put another call into the school - is there anything else I can do other than be a bit of a squeaky wheel and just keep on at the school?