Kid Being Bullied

Jerome77

Hi,

Our five year old is being physically attacked in school. The boy who is attacking him is autustic and older. The culprit usually has a resource teacher who is out on maternity leave so they have had lots of replacements recently.

Anyway, our boy comes home with scratches all down his face, marks on his neck, his cheek is sore from the slaps he gets.

Our boy is not molly coddled in any way, he has two brothers and is well used to rough and tumble, but these "beatings" are happening daily for the last few weeks.

I have emailed the school and have met up with the teacher yesterday. They assured it would stop.

Today he has been hit a few time s again. There are only 30 kids in the whole school. Other parents have complained too.

I am getting quite annoyed at the schools in action

Has anyone any experience with this. What can I do next, short of keeping him home.

Thanks

Moonbeam

Is it the child's SNA or resource teacher that is out?
Have you spoken to the school?
I would write everything down,take photos and go in to the principal every single day.
That us unacceptable whether a child has difficulties or not and it is so unfair on your little lad,he is only 5 and school is a big new world .

byhookorbycrook

Does the child in question have an SNA?I agree with Moonbeam,document everything and keep the school informed. In such a small school, there may not be a precedent for children with ASD and may be struggling to find solutions.

Your child needs to be safe at school, but if there has not been an SNA granted to that child, the more evidence the school has, the better the chances that an SNA will be granted. In the interim, the school has to ensure that your little boy is protected tooo

Jerome77

byhookorbycrook wrote: »

Does the child in question have an SNA?I agree with Moonbeam,document everything and keep the school informed. In such a small school, there may not be a precedent for children with ASD and may be struggling to find solutions.

Your child needs to be safe at school, but if there has not been an SNA granted to that child, the more evidence the school has, the better the chances that an SNA will be granted. In the interim, the school has to ensure that your little boy is protected tooo

2 autistic kids share 1 sna.
my boy has kept getting hit by one autistuic boy. I have removed 2 of my boys from the school today until further notice and lodged a complaint with ombudsman for children. We met with principal today and he could see no problem. So we had to take action.

Big Bag of Chips

Unless you have exhausted the complaints procedure with the school, the Ombudsman might just refer you back there, for the moment.

The complaints procedure in many schools is
-Class teacher
-Principal
-Board of Management
-DES

You should ask for a copy of their anti-bullying policy and their complaints procedure.

One_Of_Shanks

Could you find a way of having a chat with the kid's parents? If the school aren't doing anything maybe a talk with the child's parents might be the way to go.

Obviously a delicate situation but once your polite and non-confrontational they would probably be fine about it and have a chat with their kid.

It might not be standard procedure bla bla bla but no reason why two civilised sets of parents can't work on an issue together,

HS3

We had similar issues. No steps were being taken to help either our son or the boy who kept attacking him. Eventually we wrote a letter to the principal, after our kid was strangled in the yard, where we asked when they would finally take action, when the other kid drew blood or worse? We told them they were on notice of the issues and if anything else happened to our kid, we would seek legal advice. We made it clear we wanted the other kid helped, not punished. I felt so sorry for the other boy. Anyhow, they took action. He has an sna and is really blossoming. Not at all saying that's down to us btw, Im just glad the kid is no longer being left to try and figure out the world for himself.