One Persistant Bully

[FoneFace]

There is a kid in my sons class that is pushing me dangerously close to breaking point.
He has been bullying my son on and off for the past year. All through year 3 it continued and they've just gone back after summer and guess who's started again...

I'm so angry, its this one brat continuously wrecking my sons school life. Last year I spent more time in that school complaining about bullying than anything else and I don't want to spend this year the same.

HOW DO I STOP HIM??

What makes it REALLY bloody hard is that this brat is best friends with a kid that my son considers to be HIS best friend but the other two sleep at each others houses etc so are obvioulsy closer than my son and this friend. so bully uses this against him also.

Today, 2 of my sons friends offered Bully 50p to leave my son alone. I WANT HIM STOPPED. I could honestly swing for the little *

Please help.

[quint]

What the fuck is the school doing about this?

Sorry if this sounds like I'm having a go at you - I'm not.

My DD1 is due to start school next week and one of the things I bought up in the home visit was about bullying and what do they do about it (I was bullied at school and would hate for either of my Dd's to go through it and would be upset if they became bully's), they have an anti bullying policy that starts in nursery.

What does your sons teacher and head say about it and more importantly what are they going to do about it.

I hope your son is OK, reassure him that the other littel shit will get what he deserves.

[kerrykatona]

i would speak to the parents of the boy, i kow not everyone would agree with that but they hold more power over the boy than the school does.

[law3]

Sounds like a bit of jealousy going on here, both having the same best friend.

Have you thought about inviting the bully round to your house, along with the best friend and see if you can encourage them ALL to be friends.

If it doesnt work, you can always beat him up while he is there!!!!!

[glitterchick]

My son was getting bullied at school. Nothing physical but loads of verbal nasty stuff. I went to school with my son and made him point out the guy to me (my son was 7 - the bully was 11). (With very quiet but hostile tone of voice) I walked right up to his face and asked him his name, I asked him where he lived and actually should have asked him for his phone number but didn't. I was discreet but obviously scary enough that from that day to this he didn't go near my son. If it had to continued I would have approached the teacher, the principal and would have requested to see the parent of the child. I would never want my child to go through bullying like myself and many of us did when we were in school.

[toothicky]

My ds was bullied at about this age. I went to the school on several occassions but the only thing that seemed to stop it was when the bully appeared on my doorstep asking to come in and play and I told him to his face that there he wasn't coming in because he was a nasty little bully. It stopped immediately. I know this isn't always possible and the fact that the bully is so much older is very distressing. I think you need to ask the school exactly what they are doing to stop it.