Very long back story which I'll cut short to get to the point.
My dd has suffered some dreadful bullying at school since starting in reception. This has been on and off over the years (she's in year 5 now) but some examples have included having her head pushed into a wall, dragged along a corridor, being punched in the stomach, having pencils shoved in her ears (I could go on but you get the picture).
Anyway, clearly we have had to act on this. At first when she was little we spoke to her about staying away from this girl- the girl simply followed her. We spoke to the school and they reported various incidents to us via bump notes etc (very crap response from the school to be honest which is a whole other thread). Anyway, it finally came to a head 2 years ago when there was yet another incident and I lost the plot a bit. I told school that they needed to act, today, or I would be ringing Ofsted tomorrow and reporting it. The school weren't overjoyed at that but did respond and since then the incidents have stopped.
However, this girl happens to be a neighbour of ours. Since the last incident, when clearly the school got their act together and finally took action, the parents have not spoken to us. Literally not once. They have however bad mouthed us to anyone who knows us- their daughter is "angelic", we were exaggerating etc. Basically they've made life very difficult for us simply because we decided that our daughter had been hurt once too often and forced the school to finally act. Our daughter has never retaliated and never done anything to provoke any of this by the way. She sees the good in everyone and in many ways gave the girl too many chances to be friends- only to suffer as a result.
Anyway, today they are moving house. Much as I feel sad that it has come to that- adults moving house because they can't/won't accept that they need to do something about their child's behaviour, I can only feel happy that finally we will have some peace from it.