Bullying - Story 4

I do hope that trying to bring these matters to the attention of the public will hopefully improve things. Maybe not for people like my daughter C as the damage has now been done by the school system. That being lack of support from head teachers and their staff. I think that if parents are made more aware of the law then schools will have to start becoming accountable for their actions. Every other profession are accountable so why do the schools get away with it.

I know through a friend of a friend and not the family personally but their son was bullied at school and he commited sucide due to being bullied. Even after his death the school denied anything had gone on regardless of several visits to the school by his parents. I don't understand when it is a big thing in schools these days that it is not being sorted out. I guess that something has to, God forbid, happen to a politician's child and then something will be sorted.

If there is anything that I can do, I do not mind getting involved. As I look at it now it is to help the children that start school tomorrow. They should not have to go through what my daughter went through or anybody else's child. I know that there are children that have gone through far worse than my daughter, and what I experienced was enough. My heart goes out to these people that have had so much hurt. A child should be entitled surely to be educated in a safe enviroment.

The child who bullied C, her mother was allowed to help out around the school so she used to also torment C if she saw her. The school did nothing to protect C.

I think that these head teachers should be made aware that it changes people's complete lifestyles. It is ridiculous that to maintain your child's safety you have to end a 30 year career and educate her at home. I do not regret what I have done but I never thought that I would be ending my career ever for this reason. It changes things financially. It is also annoying that something that happens in school finishes up in your home life. eg bully's parents threatening you on the doorstep and the school has no interest because what goes on out of school does not concern them. But the whole problem started off in school. Surely it has to be addressed in school if thats were it started from?

Regrettably society is changing and I feel a lot of it is with what they can get away with in school and this softly softly pc approach regarding no blame anti-bullying policies is shambolic.

Well I better get off my soap box. This subject does make my blood boil at times because I don't understand why schools do not deal with the problem properly. I think they put their heads in the sand and it is silly because these bullies, half the time, finish up in prison. At the end of the day they blame the parents. Sometimes it is the parents but sometimes it is not. It is peer pressure in schools that have no proper discipline. When C started at the school she had to write out the rules of the school. It was all about respecting teachers and visitors. But nowhere was there a rule to respect each other.