We recently moved because of school violence directed at my son..amazingly, the "order" to beat up my son came from the other boys parents!! During a meeting with them to try to stop the problems, the father said "My son will handle this MY way, and I guarentee you won't like it!!" I asked him if this was a threat, and he told me to take it any way I wanted. When I told the police after their son beat up my son, (small-town cops with something to lose if they defended the "wrong" people), they didn't talk to my son, they didn't come to our house, they didn't talk to ANY witnesses at school, then they dropped the case. I knew this would never stop. I knew it would only get worse for my son with the adults having a vendetta against him because he started on the football team ahead of their son. So we swtiched schools and put our house up for sale, sold our animals and moved. My son is MUCH happier now, in a better school, with friends who treat him the way he treats them.
A friend of mine said the best revenge is good living...if this is true these other people can eat my son's dust. He has 4 A's and 3 B's in a harder school with more competition. He played footbal for a bigger team and started, playing wide reciever and the coaches love him. He's on his way.
Not all schools are like that. These kinds of things don't happen in every school. The mother of the other boy is the Elematary school Principal (the school is a K-12 with only about 400 kids in the whole school) and I think she should have known better. If anyone asked me what I thought about this particular elementary school I'd say go else where...
When finding a good school for your child a question I would definatly ask the Principal is whether he or she has children of their own that attend there...if they do, go else where. It's a fine line between being a parent and an administrator at a school...what do you do when it's YOUR child that is the bully? It's been my experience that they deny it and direct all their animosity towards your child..blaming their childs bad behavior on your kid. They also have access to personal information that can be used detrimentally against you as a parent. It happened with my son. The father and mother accessed my son's personal informationa t school, and called my husbands work from home, trying to get him fired.
All in all, be INVOLVED!! Don't back down, if you think your child is being mistreated, go above the administrations head to the school district, go above them to the school board..if you can't get results...go else where...school shouldn't be miserable for kids, it should be fun!
Look at my son... He's a great kid!!
