My teen, lets say K, is a F in year 7. They joined a new primary school in year 6 due to us moving so had to make new friends.
K made friends with a couple of girls with learning difficulties and another girl who was a loner for reasons ill explain soon.
The friendship group was ok, except the loner girl was a bit bossy with K and I said to them, well you don't have to play with her if you aren't keen on them, if you gave them a fair chance then that's fine.
Anyway, onto year 7, her friends with LD go into separate section of the school and their breaktimes rarely align, so she is left with the other girl.
This girl, called B has ODD, oppositional defiant disorder and her treatment of K has turned even worse. They will steal from them, hit them at school, drag them about school and has completely alienated K from making other friends as they have tarred them both with the same brush. B has told fibs about K to stop other people hanging with them, like she's racist or gay, which also causes her to get bullied by her peers.
K has said to her many time that she doesn't want to hang with her and after a few incidents I spoke to her parents, and we agreed we should keep them apart, except B follows K EVERYWHERE. she has a copy of her timetable and waits for her after lessons, waits for her after school, and if K doesn't walk or hang with her she threatens her with lies so she does.
B is also still thinking they are best friends and that even me and her mum are best friends, wen I cant stand her mum, but thats a different story.
I have spoken to the school and they can't do anything as she's not breaking any rules but my daughter comes home crying as she hides in the library every breaktime as B is banned from there til year 8 and has no chance to even try to make new friends.
This one student is ruining her life and her parents are unable to control her, she's also apparently a pathological liar and has called the police and ambulance at home when she doesn't get her own way and doesn't listen to any body.
K is also now seeing a counsellor and getting CBT for self harm and I am at my wits end.
We live in a village location and I am in no position to home school.
Any advice would be great. Please excuse any mistakes in my text