Do goveners in private school have as much clout as council schools

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Basically do they . I know at my sons school they are highly regarded and have alot of say in matters on how the school runs and policies (sp).This is a normal council school ,however my friends child attends a private school and she is being verbally bullied by this delightful child . She is not the only one . I HAVE ADVISED MY FRIEND TO SEE TEACHER BUT SHE HAS AND THIS HASNT OT HER ANY WHERE . i SAID SHE SHOULD ASK FOR THEIR ANTI BULLYING POLICY AND WRITE A LETTER TO THE GOVENERS ( sorry about caps on a friends computer )But being a private school do they have the same rules as my DS school . TIA

No. Some may do, but the dcs school doesn't have a Board of Governors, as it is privately owned. Some charitable trusts do have Governors though.

She should approach the Head, but may have to accept that there is little scope for appeal. Typically the Heads will be sensible though as obviously if they lose parents, then they may end up with a closed school.

Thanks for replying .I only know what I have read on here and dont know much about private schools .

In my experience, if there was a board of Govenors and I had a problem I would copy the Chair into all correspondence. That way the issue would be on record and not hidden by a weak head or social-climber parent-govenor.

We have had the dubious pleasure of seeing some terrible bullying completely ignored in fee-paying schools in Devon as the parents of the bully just threatened to remove their four kids. Not many little independant schools can stand to lose that many kids at once. What compounded the problem was (And here I finally get to the point )one of the govenors was very friendly in a social-climber way with the bully's parents. It was quite pathetic to see this grown man acting the big 'I am' to whilst worried parents whilst obviously being completely under the thumb of the bullying parents. Individual governors can be numpties just like you and me.

Go to the Chair, that way there will be an official record and the procedure will have to be followed. The independant schools inspectors always comment if a school doesn't have robust policies and procedures so they do exist in most schools. In our last school, failure to manage bullying resulted in classes being decimated in the junior school. One of the classes we left fell to two pupils.