Horrible kids on bus, what can I do?

[Psipssina]

Ds started his new secondary school on Monday. It's a nice school, but he got punched by an aggressive Y7 and I had a thread about this.

The kid has been in internal exclusion all week until now.

They get the same bus unfortunately. The kid has a friend and ally. Today on the way home, they were both having a go at Ds, another Y7 intervened calmly and got punched in the face while the other one tried to trip him/kick him down the stairs.

The kid started throwing people's bags around and emptied someone's PE kit down the stairs. Throwing bottles at people's heads as well. And then they started telling Ds that they're going to fuck his mum, in great detail which Ds didn't want to repeat to me.

No one told the driver. It's June; surely the school has had time to deal with this situation by now? What on earth should I do - Ds is refusing point blank to get the bus tomorrow. I can take him by car but we'll be late as ds2 is at another school near here.

Thanks guys, that means a lot. I'm impressed with the school too - they really seem to be onto it.

The bus company are taking it very seriously and have asked the school for statements. I don't know what they will do.

Ds is home now - he is very chirpy! He says the main kid has been excluded for five days, and if it happens again he will be permanently excluded. They must be at the end of their rope

The other kid who was going along with it, sat with ds on the bus home (along with the 2 y9 security guards he was assigned!!) and apologised profusely and said he was so wrong, and doesn't really like the other kid anyway, and it will never happen again. I think he sounded genuine by what ds said.

Apparently the nice kid who defended Ds said to thank me for telling the school, which was unexpected! So I've told ds to tell him I'm very grateful to him for what he did.

I hope this is the end of it now. There were other kids there this morning when we went in who were asking me if ds was Ok - it was lovely actually! Ds didn't even know them but they had obviously seen what happened.

Thanks very much for all the support on here. I really needed to talk about it and you helped me massively

Wow.... what a confidence boost for your boy... kids looking out for him, standing up for him ... that alone makes a huge difference, and puts a bit of swagger in their step!! All good.

I know, he feels really at home there already and it's thanks to how the school have handled it but also to the great kids they have there - the whole ethos seems positive and caring.

I wish we had gone for this school in the first place!