Dealing with class bully

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Dd is in primary school age 10.
There is a girl in her class who lives with her gp because she was placed with them by social services after neglect from mother.
While i sympathiseand get she must have huge emotional issues, she is a bully. she is causing so many problems in the class of girls. I have been to the school on a few occasions. They have set up a friendship and respect class that all the girls have to go to even though its one girls causing all the problems. Racist comments, name calling, bitchy comments. The school doesn't seem to be dealing with it. My dd is sick of it and im not sure what to do. I wrote to the school and they said they were monitoring the situation. I dont know whether to leave it or do something and if so what can I actually do?

Keep making all your complaints focussed on managing the behaviour of the child and how school are failing. Don’t criticise the child herself, school need to step in. Make it formal. If it isn’t written down then it didn’t happen. Have a look at the school complaints policy and follow it to the letter.

Read their bullying policy and hold them to it in writing

You could make sure you cc the governors in any future correspondence.

Nothing you can do. Bullying policy won't apply to this child, it's only for the generally good kids. The other kids need to organise and fight fire with fire.

Difficult. I can only suggest a couple of things other than those suggested above, and they depend very much on the confidence/character of your child and the other girls.

1. Whenever ever the bully says or does something nasty, your daughter should say in a loud voice " why are you being mean to me?"
2. All the girls should shout loudly "don't call me../say... And repeat at the top of their voices what she has said.

The first thing throws it back on the girl and makes her aware she is wrong (she may genuinely not understand what she is doing is bad). The second (if done loudly enough) makes it impossible for the teacher or TA to be unaware, or feign ignorance, and will also show them how often it is happening. If their lesson or time is constantly interrupted by children shouting"don't...!" they will be forced to acknowledge that this behaviour is frequent and unacceptable. Just an idea, but like I said depends on the confidence of the other girls.