DS1 has always been fairly quiet child and found the social aspect of school quite difficult to begin with.
Now in Y2 he has a small group of close friends and, according to the teacher, is generally friendly and well liked among the others too.
One of the "friends", a girl who I know has some learning and behavioural difficulties has been hurting him for some time. To begin with it was general things, such as pushing or name calling, which I told him to ignore. He himself has a very strong sense of right and wrong, so ignoring someone doing "wrong" doesn't come easily to him and I don't think he's been following this advice.
Anyway last week he came home with a note about a bump on his head, which he said was caused by this girl pushing him against the fence and today he's got scratches all up his arms, inflicted by the same girl.
If it was someone else's child, my advice would be that there's nothing to be gained by interfering and that he needs to learn to deal with this himself, but am I letting him down if I take this approach.
I'm also worried that his reaction to these incidents might be making him look a bit of a wet blanket in the eyes of the other children, as I think there have been a lot of tears, although the school has never said anything to me, apart from the note about the bump, but that didn't say how it happened.