My ds (who has been on the receiving end of another child's bullying for a few years now) was called "fatty" today by a different child who has previous called him this at morning break. The another boy started calling him "fatty". Then boy 1 put his foot out and tripped ds up, and he fell and knocked his head on the corner of a cabinet. He cried and told the teacher in charge and had an ice pack. He told me this at lunchtime when I went ot collect him for an appointment so I ended up speaking with this teacher. She said that she got 2 stories, one from ds and a conflicting story from the perpetrator who is known to be a horrid little child (although older than ds). Therefore she couldnt do anything. This is pretty much what happened when the original bully threw a shoe and his my ds in his face - the perpetrator got off on the basis that there were 2 conflicting stories.
Anyway I asked if the teacher had written this incident in the accident book and she hadnt as she told me he had just told her (hello! she gave him an ice pack 2 hours before). Anyway I requested that she does put this in the accident book.
Obviously, I understand that the teacher cant punish on the balance of probabilities and in the absence of the truth makes it very hard but this is sending mixed messages to my ds. I tell him to tell the truth and stay out of trouble, then he gets hurt, listens to lies and the perpetrator gets off, whilst he gets frustrated.