My 13 year old DS has come home again in tears because he was followed home from school by 3 older boys who were taunting him and videoing him on their phones. There was no violence or threatened violence this time but the same group of boys have in the past threatened him with scissors and hit him with a traffic cone.
I’d be the first to admit my DS takes things to heart and is not very resilient when unpleasant things are said to him - though he has been told by one kid that he should kill himself and has also had other nasty personal jibes.
School do address issues as they arise but this doesn’t stop him getting upset by what’s going on. He gets panic attacks when things are very bad. He’s previously had help from CAMHs but they have discharged him and won’t accept the school’s re-referral. He is supported by the school counsellor.
He’s asking to move school but this would be the third move in secondary for him and he moved once in primary and I don’t think a different school would be any different. The problem is that teenage boys are quite robust and can be unkind and he is sensitive and takes things personally.
Some of what has happened to him is clearly well beyond the pale - the scissors and suicide jibes of course. But what can I do to help support him through school life? I’m feeling out of my depth here as my other two kids sailed through their school lives with no issues like this