to wonder why violence and criminal damage to other people's property...

[hottiebottie]

...are not considered worthy of police involvement just because they happen on school premises?

There is nothing to stop you reporting an incident to Police if you are unhappy about the way something has been dealt with by the school.

I often wonder this, and I'm a teacher...
I think Heads feel it will reflect badly on the school, but as a parent of a teenager I think I would be quite impressed and reassured that a tough line was being taken.

I don't think the school can stop someone reporting it, can they? If they won't involve the police, the parent should do it.

My DD has been bullied at school. The child bullying her is 8 atm. The school do very little but I have made it very clear to the bully and to her mum that as soon as she hits 10, if it continues, I will be calling the police. I don't care if it happens in school or out of it, my DD is not going to continue to be hurt and have the person hurting her go unpunished.

I know they probably won't do much, but hpefully it would give her a fright!

It not any of my kids who are affected (thankfully), but a friend's son is really having a rough time of it at the moment. All the talk of punishments being meted out at school makes me think hey - if someone deliberately pushed you down a flight of concrete steps in the high street, wouldn't they have to answer for themselves in a police station or something? If someone came up to you in a supermarket and shone a laser in your eyes so that you ended up in A&E, then would you expect the supermarket management to deal with it?

MammaTJ to hear that. And

...oh, and the criminal damage involved taking another child's laptop and kicking it along the ground, rendering it useless...

hottie that's awful behaviour. To be honest, once violence reaches that stage then I think the school needs to bring in outside help - and I'd definitely be getting the parents of the children involved to replace the laptop.