My CM's DS is 8. He's a lovely lovely lad, but unfortunatly has been subjected to bullying from an early age at his primary school. The perpetrator is a boy in his class, who also gets other kids to turn on her DS. As a result, he feels isolated at school, and it is making him moody and aggressive at home.
She has complainied to the school umpteen times. The school have been extremely dismissive of her complaints. On incident involved 5 boys kicking her DS in the head - the school put this down to "horseplay" She looked into sending him to another local school, who said they were oversubscribed, and told her that she should take it to appeal, which she did. The LEA offered her DS a place at a school miles and miles away - she would be willing to take him there, but he was worried he wouldn;t make freinds and din;t want to go there (it would take them ages to get there and back everyday as well)
The school have done nothing really to discipline this other boy, apart from pit him on report several times a year, which as you can imagine is making no difference whatsoever. The only solution the school has offered is to move her DS to another class, where he would still be at the mercy of the otrher boy at breaktimes and away from the freinds he does have in the class he is in currently.
My CM doesn';t know what to do for the best. She is dreading sending him to school because it's making him so miserable and she no longer trusts the school as they have been so apathetic towards he son't situation. I feel so sorry for her.
As she has appealed already, what can she do next?