Bullying - Story 8

We feel very let down by the school and we educate our daughter at home and she is doing very well. What we feel is hard to take in, is that bullies stay on at school and have an education and the victims stay at home and are deprived of this. I do have very intimidating letters written by the head of the school when we tried to get the bullying stopped. We even got help from kidscape but my daughter finished up in hospital and we decided it was not worth continuing to fight.

We were feeling exhausted with the whole situation and it was taking over our lives. We felt that we were not getting anywhere. We wrote to the governors of the school and received no response from them. We have been far happier away from a school. X would be fine in a classroom but not in the playground. She got frightened to the point of hyperventilating and passing out.

I am very pleased that these issues are now being brought to light but I feel that the schools anti-bullying polices with a no blame policy in them do not work. Also in our case the school denied bullying was going on and would not even follow their own anti-bullying policy.