I have several friends who are teachers, but none who are management or attendance officers.
Several threads I've read and/or posted on recently are on the issue of school bullying. I also have a friend who is currently using the local authority (a local lawyer has taken the case pro bono as this school is particularly bad) as her child ended up hospitalised with broken bones due to bullying and now has a school phobia and this was PRIMARY!
I was supposedly at school when (70'S/80'S) bullying was worse/less well handled yet as a military child the several schools I attended handled any incidents well. It just wasn't tolerated.
Why when things are supposed to be getting managed better is it apparently getting worse?
One of my teacher friends left a school she was working at because of their head in the sand approach 'there's no bullying at our school' yet it was rife.
What's going wrong? And why are schools bad for this getting 'outstanding' Ofsted ratings?