To hope these parents are ashamed of their boys tonight?

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Today my Y9 ds was taunted by boys making the Nazi salute at him. This, after a couple of weeks of 'Dirty Jew'.

If these are your sons, is this what you want for them? Is this the attitude you would like them to have to their fellow human beings? Do you feel proud of them? Would you like them to be treated this way? What are you saying to them tonight? What do you think the Head of Year should say to them tomorrow?

What do you think your sons should do next?

Or maybe - meh, it's just bantz, boys will be boys.

I'm so sorry your son has experienced this. It's appalling. I hope the school will come down on this like a tonne of bricks.

I don’t think the HoY should say much to them tbh - it is way beyond the HoY stage. In my school it would be referred up to safeguarding lead to liaise with external agencies and the head for suspension.

I would be horrified if my children did that to anyone. I can’t imagine there would be many parents that would want their children to behave like that. Sometimes our children behave in ways we least expect and would be ashamed of.

That's awful. Your poor son. I would absolutely go for reporting the culprits to the police for committing a hate crime.

Get the police in. No place for nicey nicey with idiots like that.

Bloody hell, this is awful.

The head needs to know, and the boys need to be punished for this.

I think you should report it to the police, too. Too easy for schools to make the right noises and do nothing effective.
It does make you wonder what kind of homes they come from.

If your son starts reporting to the teachers the taunting will get worse.

Two weeks of "Dirty Jew", which he ignored. It seems to me that the taunting got worse because he ignored it. He ignored this incidence, too, except this time he reported it.

@user8888

It's disgusting of those boys but I will go against the grain here.

If your son starts reporting to the teachers the taunting will get worse.

He would do best to avoid these cretins as much as possible. He should also be taking self-defence classes if he doesn't feel able to protect himself.

The world is full of bad people and a lot of them don't give a shit whether you report them or not.

I have to strongly disagree with this.

This kind of racist bullying cannot be allowed and the children responsible need to be made aware how serious this is. Frankly they should be shitting themselves for fear of exclusion and police involvement.

If they were mine I’d be fuming, and yes making them watch/read some material so they understand the context of what they may have not really understood the seriousness of.

There’s no way a blind eye should be turned to this

I'm so sorry your son has had to experience this OP.

My 84 year old exh spent his whole childhood and much of his adulthood being abused like this. The last episode, several months ago has caused him to change one of his regular walking routes as he felt fearful of attack.

It's saddening and sickening to think that, for large parts of society, nothing has changed.

This needs to be dealt with by the police as a hate crime, either via the school or to the police directly.

@LEELULUMPKIN

I'd be horrified if they were my Sons however it is highly possible the views were learned from their parents therefore they will be feeling far from ashamed.

Exactly, my DSs would never behave like this, along with any decent human beings.

Hope your DS is okay, OP.

Report the arseholes!!! I hope they are expelled. I would be mortified if this was my child that was bullying.

Horrendous I would be reporting this behaviour to the headteacher and the school of governors urgently. They should be suspended if not expelled

when this happened to a friends dc recently (yup, seems to be on the rise again) the school reacted strongly AND encouraged them to report to police and police went round the dcs house etc etc

@Griselda1

If you and your son feel up to it, a face to face discussion could be life changing for these boys. They are part of our society and I can't imagine what has happened in their lives to leave them with these sort of attitudes.

Leave that for the police to areNge - restorative justice - although you don't have to agree to it even then.

Report to the police

Report to the police

Report to the police

He was right to report it.

They were obviously going to goad him until they got some sort of response, probably hoping that they would get an excuse the physically attack him.

The response they got was that he has reported them - I hope they get the book thrown at them. This is disgusting.

@user8888

It's disgusting of those boys but I will go against the grain here.

If your son starts reporting to the teachers the taunting will get worse.

He would do best to avoid these cretins as much as possible. He should also be taking self-defence classes if he doesn't feel able to protect himself.

The world is full of bad people and a lot of them don't give a shit whether you report them or not.

Absolute rubbish. This is a crime.

Well parents always say they shocked, but if all parents were shocked then surely their children would not behave like this as they would know from home that it is not acceptable

Report to the police asap

I’d inform the police

Fucking hell.
to your son.

I would hope they would be suspended at the very least. It wouldn't be disproportionate to report to the police.

This is awful, so awful your son has experienced this.

Echoing everyone saying report to the police. This is a hate crime, Y9 kids are old enough to know that.

Report to the school too as they should be working on preventing this ever happening again. But this being adequately dealt with goes beyond the school.

I'm so sorry, that is just awful. I'd hope the boys would be expelled and reported to the police for a hate crime.