@freddie11 My (sincere, not even remotely exaggerated, honest-to-Jesus-for-real…seriously) advice is to file a police report for assault.
Schools won’t or sometimes don’t have the ability to take these things as seriously as they should be taken, in terms of repercussions.
And I am of the firm opinion that assault is assault, whether they’re teens or adults. This kid is 13, and this was not a fight over a video game or a disagreement in the playground. This was an malicious, deliberate, unprovoked, targeted, sustained attack that led to a mass-bullying event.
This is as bad as the worst bullying / assault incident I have ever had happen in my years working with students.
Your child deserves to know that what happened to them WAS assault. And it SHOULD be taken seriously. And they SHOULD NOT have to come to school every day feeling unsafe.
What is more, while the school may not have many options in terms of consequences for the aggressor, they are CERTAINLY responsible for the teacher being out of the room.
Do I think it’s awful that teachers can’t fucking go to the damn bathroom because it puts kids at risk of bullying? Yes. But worst case they can phone the office or have a peer watch the class.
The teacher is legally responsible for supervising students during class hours. And they were gone long enough for this to turn into a whole taunting, chanting mess. What if there had been a fire? A lockdown? A medical emergency (which there very well could have been the way you describe your child being yanked about)?
Schools won’t or sometimes don’t have the ability to take these things as seriously as they should be taken, in terms of repercussions.
And I am of the firm opinion that assault is assault, whether they’re teens or adults. This kid is 13, and this was not a fight over a video game or a disagreement in the playground. This was an malicious, deliberate, unprovoked, targeted, sustained attack that led to a mass-bullying event.
This is as bad as the worst bullying / assault incident I have ever had happen in my years working with students.
Your child deserves to know that what happened to them WAS assault. And it SHOULD be taken seriously. And they SHOULD NOT have to come to school every day feeling unsafe.
What is more, while the school may not have many options in terms of consequences for the aggressor, they are CERTAINLY responsible for the teacher being out of the room.
Do I think it’s awful that teachers can’t fucking go to the damn bathroom because it puts kids at risk of bullying? Yes. But worst case they can phone the office or have a peer watch the class.
The teacher is legally responsible for supervising students during class hours. And they were gone long enough for this to turn into a whole taunting, chanting mess. What if there had been a fire? A lockdown? A medical emergency (which there very well could have been the way you describe your child being yanked about)?