I have been so frustrated by my son's prep schools response to stealing. They have trivialised it and when asking them to find my son's missing item I get responses like this, 'We speak to all the children regularly about leaving each other’s items alone and it is a constant message that we are sending to the pupils.' They are teflon coated and I cannot get them to initiate anything to stop this bullying. I have removed my son from the school as he ran away twice and I am removing my other two children, for more serious reasons where i feel they have failed with their duty of care, Ie on a ski trip which i went on some father had harassed me and they did nothing about it which made me have serious concerns about the welfare of my daughter at the school. If they think it is ok for a woman to suffer harassment then their views are very much at odds with me and my family. I do not want my children to be around people who allow this to go on. They said it was a police issue, and i have reported it to them, however I said it was also their issue as my daughter was sharing my room and my items had been vandalised and my knickers stolen, I was on a trip that they had organised and had warned them that this person had previously stared at me all evening and made sexualised comments to me prior to this. When I told my daughters teacher that I was removing her, as I did not feel the school was a safe environment for a girl, I meant this from both a psychological position and I was worried if any 13 year old girl should report any incident she herself may face the same victim blaming attitude that I have faced. Is this not a fair point, are any of you legals? Then then sent me a very heavy legal type letter saying that they tick all the boxes in regards to child safety, however i believe that you should be respectful of women and they are not doing this despite them stating that they have had meetings etc. about this, (which they have not, to cover themselves, they have never asked me in to discuss despite me telling them about the incident, they say if i have a complaint then i should go through the formal complaints procedure. However this is not about complaining this is reporting a serious incident on their trip, which they are consciously bypassing, they seem to missing the point?, it is a request for supper,t help and understanding and a show from them that this is not tolerable behaiviour from men towards women and that they will not allow it on their trip). Help?