My son goes to a single form entry primary school in our village. It used to be a good school and now has gone right down hill because of the amount of bullying that goes on. Hes been subjected to numerous attacks from various kids in his year, there is a high percentage of unruly and disruptive kids in his class who lash out at anyone and everyone, including teachers.
On Friday a girl, who has done things to him in the past, whacked him across the face with a skipping rope with such force that it whipped across his cheek around his neck and upside his cheek, almost like a lasso. He was given ice packs but 6 hours after the incident he still had several welts on his face. This was utterly deliberate as she was seeing 'revenge' on him for a name calling incident earlier in the week, for which he apologised. The school then allowed the other child to pair up with my son at an after school club while the Head looked on.
I have written to the school giving them a week to respond about the anti bullying procedures, and then I will go to Ofsted and the DoE. What I want to know is do I have a case to take this to the police due to the seriousness of the attack? This is a bad school with several extremely bad bullies per year and the head just turns a blind eye and wants to redeem the bad kids while the good kids suffer. Thanks in advance