Our son had a mild cold on Monday. We sent him to school but we're sure he'd want home early. Last 2 periods were PE.
My partner went to get him. He complained about being bullied. A larger kid had emptied his bag of books over the floor and kept hiding books leaving our son crying. He had no break because of this. The kid had also put him in a headlock and punched him on the back a few weeks previously and is frequently making comments belittling our son.
Our son has been afraid to tell anyone as he does not want the bully to know he's told on him and be picked on even more, Apparentky the bully targets lots of people by pulling chairs out from under people. He also casually kicked out year 8 son in the corridor leaving him with bruises.
Our year 9 son is asking to change school.
I don't think my son is overly sensitive. Do you think the bully thinks he is doing harmless japes and doesn't realise the damage he is doing?
My cousin is a teacher and I've asked him about it. In his school a girl in year 12 was physically knocked unconscious by a girl in year 11 over speaking to a boyfriend. Thankfully our sons school is not that rough.