Bit of an awkward situation.
My son was involved in an altercation yesterday, where another child went to punch him in the face. He had physical hold of him before he broke free and the kid went to punch him. If relevant, the kids are Yr 6, so 10-11.
A dinner lady put her hand up and caught the blow, resulting in her thumb being dislocated and now she has an extensively bruised and swollen hand. It's a suspected break also, but there is too much swelling so she is having to return for further xrays once it has subsided.
It's awkward, as the dinner lady is a relative of mine, and happened to be there (she would've done the same for any child)
My relative has followed up with the school, who have not taken this any further with the child, and his class teacher was unaware it even happened. The head has told my relative that she shouldn't have intervened, and therefore the result would've been my child was punched in the face. My relative clarified this is what the head meant, that the consequence would've been a kids face, and she said yes.
The damage to the relatives hand is awful, I can only imagine how much damage that could've done to my sons face.
So I'm stuck, because I want the school to do something about this child's behaviour, but feel like I am in a difficult situation because it's my relative. I feel like my complaint is unjust because it didn't happen to my son and it was averted by my relative, and equally I am furious they haven't done anything about their staff member being injured and also the fact they actively told her she should've let my son be hit.
AIBU to take this to the governors? Would you include the information you know because of your relative?
To make it clear, she didn't tell me who the other child was, my son did on pick up when he came out worried about his injured relative and that it was all his fault.