To think the school should intervene?

[ChachiChichi]

I am posting to ask for advice for one of my lovely work colleagues. They don't know I'm posting so I'll try to tread the line of being vague/ giving enough info so people can add their input. We work in a secondary school and my colleague lives in the catchment area. For the past month a group of students have realised where she lives and the following has happened:
Car window smashed
Wing mirrors ripped off
Car egged
House egged
Verbal abuse/ shouting outside the house and in the street.
Police have been called, one of the students' parents was spoken to by a pcso. Colleague has CCTV but students have hoods up/faces covered so can't be seen. School have been pretty ineffective so far.
Any words of wisdom please Mumsnet community? Colleague is a genuinely caring and wonderful teacher and has never even taught the students involved! I'm so furious on her behalf!

Call the police every time. What do you want the school to do?
I'm sorry for your colleague, that's shit

I honestly don't know! Speak to the student who has been identified, exclude them possibly? I know the school is in an awkward position, it just feels like they're ignoring it.

:( That is so shit of them. I agree re calling the police every time.

The fact that they are behaving like this is a direct reflection on their upbringing and parents. The fact that you are asking what to do on this forum is a sad indictment of policing and sentencing in the UK. They are bullies who are engaging in repeated acts of vandalism and intimidation. The likelihood of any of them receiving a suitable punishment for this ongoing campaign of harassment is zero. This situation would be unimaginable in many functioning parts of the world. I feel very sorry for your colleagues, her best plan is to move.

She needs to speak to the head of year for the students involved. Try hard to identify one. Have a very bright security light installed to aid identification.

Once she can identify one then I would get the police involved and get all of the anti-harassment measures possible done. Rain down fire in the form of the threat of private prosecution.

If these kids aren't put off by the police being called, I hardly think that being told off by the school is going to have any effect. Your colleague needs to call the police every single time.

I would also get a dog or at least a recording of a dog and a sign saying ‘beware of the dog’.

And one of those cricket sound machines that drive away the youth.

I'm in a similar position to your friend. The idiots filmed themselves damaging my property and put it on social media. Still no consequences from the police or school.

I'm dreading halloween and mischief night next week

They can't exclude them ChachiChichithey haven't broken any school rules, it's hard enough to exclude them when they have
Your colleague needs to keep reporting the harassment & criminal damage

Are they on the way to or from school?

The school have the right to impose the behaviour policy if the behaviour of the school brings the reputation of the school into question; of the behaviour has a direct impact on maintaining good order in school or if it is having an adverse effect on a member of the school community.
I would argue that in this case, the school should be wholly enacting their behaviour policy. If they're not, the member of staff should get their union involved as well as the police and put pressure on the school that way- she has a right to live and work in a safe environment and her employers should support with that where possible.

Thanks everyone for your replies. Colleague's house isn't on a school route, the students causing issues (or at least one) live on the same estate as her. I'll mention getting one of those cricket sound machines! We've also talked about having an assembly with a police officer to raise awareness/ shame them out of doing it. She is unfortunately in the process of trying to sell her house. It's awful, I just wish there was more that could be done.