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Does anyone else feel all these anti-bullying policies are no more than words on paper?

struggling mum

Sorry for the negative title but had to withdraw my son from his mainstream placement. His been punched, kicked, stuff broken, verbally tomented, had all his friends turned against him and more spanning over a year. I've had countless meetings with the head with other agencies involved and still nothing changes. I have this bully tormenting my son outside our home and my son refuses to go out. He use to go out with friends and to clubs but now doesn't all because of this one child. I've tried everything even involved the police (recently) but just can't seem to get rid of him. 

I'm severely dissapointed with the school but sadly not suprised (I don't mean to label schools its just been a very frustrating time and second experience of this problem). I finally wrote a letter explaining my reasons for withdrawing my son and not even a response (not that I even want one). I just wanted to ask if anyone else feels this way regards these so called anti-bullying policies and if anyone has any suggestions on how I can get rid of this bully once and for all (preferably staying the right side of the law ;-))

Thanks in advance x

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  • outraged said:
    Why is the teaching industry not more attentively regulated? Reading this thread demonstrates the complete lack of accountability. Consideration needs to be given to what orginisational changes are necessary to ensure that instances of bullying cannot be ignored.

    Because teaching unions wield too much power. This is probably not PC to say so - and downright offensive to those on the political 'left' - but I'm in favour of teaching unions having their powers curtailed in a way that even Maggie Thatcher would not dream of.

    You wouldn't believe how many former teachers have become home educators. They have insight into how the teaching profession really works and they know that reform from within is almost impossible in the ways that they want it. Many a time have these teachers told me that teaching union bosses are amongst some of the worst bullies themselves. They can only think of collective causes (that benefit themselves) rather than the individual needs and requirements of the children. The political views they hold are often sickening from the perspective of a high proportion of parents.

    Also, why is it that bullys are never procecuted? Physical and/or verbal abuse day after day with perhaps robbery or extortion! These are criminal acts that should be procecuted as a matter of course rather than as an exception, and whereas the bully is not deemed old enough to be responsible for their actions then the school must be held responsible for acts that occur at school and parents must be held resonsible for acts outside of school.

    The police aren't interested. They have enough on their plates. The prevention of terrorism via the controversial and highly flawed PREVENT strategy, and clobbering motorists who are driving 1mph over the speed limit are more important.

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  • outraged said:
    Why is the teaching industry not more attentively regulated? Reading this thread demonstrates the complete lack of accountability. Consideration needs to be given to what orginisational changes are necessary to ensure that instances of bullying cannot be ignored.

    Because teaching unions wield too much power. This is probably not PC to say so - and downright offensive to those on the political 'left' - but I'm in favour of teaching unions having their powers curtailed in a way that even Maggie Thatcher would not dream of.

    You wouldn't believe how many former teachers have become home educators. They have insight into how the teaching profession really works and they know that reform from within is almost impossible in the ways that they want it. Many a time have these teachers told me that teaching union bosses are amongst some of the worst bullies themselves. They can only think of collective causes (that benefit themselves) rather than the individual needs and requirements of the children. The political views they hold are often sickening from the perspective of a high proportion of parents.

    Also, why is it that bullys are never procecuted? Physical and/or verbal abuse day after day with perhaps robbery or extortion! These are criminal acts that should be procecuted as a matter of course rather than as an exception, and whereas the bully is not deemed old enough to be responsible for their actions then the school must be held responsible for acts that occur at school and parents must be held resonsible for acts outside of school.

    The police aren't interested. They have enough on their plates. The prevention of terrorism via the controversial and highly flawed PREVENT strategy, and clobbering motorists who are driving 1mph over the speed limit are more important.

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