Mum tagged and put on curfew for taking her son out of school over bullying

I find this woman so brave, my mother never kept me out of school when bullied terribly, she carried me to school screaming as she was afraid of going to prison this was in the 1950's I was was treated badly by the bullies the teachers believed all the lies the kids told them and my mum let it all happen to me because of fear...nothing was done..I was eventually sent to anew school it was much better there...but the damage was done..I still have awful memories that I struggle to deal with.

Both my children were repeatedly bullied from when they were 7, when they had to catch the service bus to junior school, by senior children. The Head from our school was great and sorted it out, but when it still escalated we involved the police and then the Education Department didn't want to know. When my son started seniors he was lifted up around the neck by this boy using one hand and chucked across the bus, his crime for looking around at them. (I should say we tried to get them in to another school but our appeal was turned down.) Our doctor involved the police and said he could have had his neck broken; the bully lost his bus pass for a couple of weeks. Our daughter was grabbed and nearly went through a window and when we complained we were told we were making too much of it, our doctor then intervened again as she became suicidal and then the school had the cheek to tell the doctor her injuries were self inflicited and they knew better. He threatened to take it further and they then started to listen, but too late. My kids crime was that we lived in our own house, and that we cared for them. A vicious circle, and 3 of those bullies later went on to kill a man and got off; we are just grateful it was not our kids. My kids never retaliated and don't judge people now, but society sure sucks at time. I hope this lads life goes from strength to strength, and the law changes for parents that stand up for kids, and are not penalised for doing so. I wonder what could have happened and what would have been done then to the bullies.

My daughter was bullied by three boys at a very young age and her older brother ran up to the school to sort them our . The assistant Head Teacher ran after him saying she had a duty to protect the three boys.

My wife asked her about protecting our daughter who was being bullied...............We will deal with it she said but she didn't have to.............It was dealt with in a matter of seconds and there was no more bullying.

Like it or not ...........nature rules ...........and this is the case in human society just as it is in all animal societies. If someone is weak they may get picked on, which is why so many small people are very fast on their , or witty, or hang about with bigger and stronger friends.

Always the way. you can be bullied so persistently that it makes your life a living hell and yet the school insists on punishing you for not attending etc. My situation was similar but it also seemed to be turned around on me so that it seemed that I was the one doing things wrong and I ended up having a nervous breakdown. Eventually my parents sought legal advice to get them to back off so I could get through my GCSE's. As soon as I left I took them to court where I was awarded compensation of which I donated the full amount to Bullying UK charity and only then were the staff members who dealt with me so badly punished, naturally the bullies were never punished in any way and went on to live perfectly happy little lives.
My recommendation to any young person or parent who has these types of problems would be to get legal help otherwise they hardly bat an eyelid at your suffering.

Why aren't the bullies being prosecuted for their hate crimes? This family has been let down by the school and the justice system.

I had similar trouble with my son only in that instance it was a teacher doing the bullying including malicious letters home. In that instance it was a policeman, who'd had the same trouble, who helped me. After again getting help via the Education Otherwise organisation and MENSA for kids, he to gained all the requisite exams and a degree, so please don't give up and in answer to preesalipremier's comment, not all policeman are bad.

It doesn't surprise me. When my daughter was bullied and I complained I was told that the 'boy who did the bullying had a violent father who beat his mother' in the child's view. As both his mother and my daughter had long blonde hair the boy viewed my daughter as an allowable target and we 'had to make allowances'!!! This was in secondary school. When the school realised that I was determined to take it further the Headmaster phoned me to say that "If I insisted on interfering he could not guarantee my daughters' safety" I took her out of school, under the Education Otherwise' clause (which allows home schooling), and with help from friends and other professionals, including teachers, she gained GCSE's, A levels and a degree and is now a teacher herself. So stick with the complaints about bullying and if need be look up the Education Otherwise web site.

Nothing shocks us anymore, the world has gone stupid! Stupid is what stupid does! You listening judge? . . . . . . . . Tagged . . . . . . No doubt she will get tazered if she breaks the curfew? Or beaten to death with a cosh from behind by a nasty, violent copper

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When I was at primary school I was pressured by pupils who wanted me to join their gang. I wasn't interested and told them to get lost. The gang leader (a coward) then kept on getting boys to have a go at me hence I got reasonably good at fighting. The IDIOTIC TEACHERS then accused me of being a bully saying "You're the one whose always fighting!" It was no good trying to explain as one might as well talk to the wall. Even at that age I could tell who the fools were but that's life.
One teacher who used the name "Smith" was an evil sadist and he often used to boast about how he used the strap on a six year old girl who was "insolent". He commuted about twenty miles from Wigan in a little white Fiat so presumably he had been blacklisted in his home area. Those were the bad old days when flogging, hanging and National Service were still in vogue. Things have changed quite a bit since then but IMHO the pendulum has now swung too far and there are now no deterrents.