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Edit to clarify that escalation is a step-by-step process.
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You need to pressure the school to take effective action. Bullying is child abuse. Your daughter has a right to be safe at school.

First, ask for a meeting with the head teacher (I'm assuming that the school is small enough that there is no middle management like a department head here). Ask for the school bullying policy. See what it says about the actions they will take. Ask them to take those actions.

If you don't get any joy that way then start keeping a written log of incidents and contacts with the school. Find out what the law says about this in your country; its possible you may be able to sue the school for negligence. Obviously thats a last resort, but if the school knows that you know your legal rights it tends to give them an incentive.

This article talks about how to deal with bureaucracies (its talking about resolving identity theft,but the principle is the same). Look like a dangerously organized professional with a paper trail, and suddenly everything becomes easy. Hopefully you won't need to employ these tactics, but looking like you might is often half the battle.

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Of course escalating to legal action is an absolute last resort. The thing is, step 1 (talk informally to the teacher about the problem) hasn't gotten a result, so now you need to escalate. Each stage of escalation is about 90% likely to resolve the problem, so the final escalation to legal action is very unlikely to be necessary. However its important to know what the roadmap is and how to take each step. Otherwise you can wind up being stonewalled.

You need to pressure the school to take effective action. Bullying is child abuse. Your daughter has a right to be safe at school.

First, ask for a meeting with the head teacher (I'm assuming that the school is small enough that there is no middle management like a department head here). Ask for the school bullying policy. See what it says about the actions they will take. Ask them to take those actions.

If you don't get any joy that way then start keeping a written log of incidents and contacts with the school. Find out what the law says about this in your country; its possible you may be able to sue the school for negligence. Obviously thats a last resort, but if the school knows that you know your legal rights it tends to give them an incentive.

This article talks about how to deal with bureaucracies (its talking about resolving identity theft,but the principle is the same). Look like a dangerously organized professional with a paper trail, and suddenly everything becomes easy. Hopefully you won't need to employ these tactics, but looking like you might is often half the battle.

You need to pressure the school to take effective action. Bullying is child abuse. Your daughter has a right to be safe at school.

First, ask for a meeting with the head teacher (I'm assuming that the school is small enough that there is no middle management like a department head here). Ask for the school bullying policy. See what it says about the actions they will take. Ask them to take those actions.

If you don't get any joy that way then start keeping a written log of incidents and contacts with the school. Find out what the law says about this in your country; its possible you may be able to sue the school for negligence. Obviously thats a last resort, but if the school knows that you know your legal rights it tends to give them an incentive.

This article talks about how to deal with bureaucracies (its talking about resolving identity theft,but the principle is the same). Look like a dangerously organized professional with a paper trail, and suddenly everything becomes easy. Hopefully you won't need to employ these tactics, but looking like you might is often half the battle.

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Of course escalating to legal action is an absolute last resort. The thing is, step 1 (talk informally to the teacher about the problem) hasn't gotten a result, so now you need to escalate. Each stage of escalation is about 90% likely to resolve the problem, so the final escalation to legal action is very unlikely to be necessary. However its important to know what the roadmap is and how to take each step. Otherwise you can wind up being stonewalled.

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Paul Johnson
  • 10.6k
  • 1
  • 32
  • 40

You need to pressure the school to take effective action. Bullying is child abuse. Your daughter has a right to be safe at school.

First, ask for a meeting with the head teacher (I'm assuming that the school is small enough that there is no middle management like a department head here). Ask for the school bullying policy. See what it says about the actions they will take. Ask them to take those actions.

If you don't get any joy that way then start keeping a written log of incidents and contacts with the school. Find out what the law says about this in your country; its possible you may be able to sue the school for negligence. Obviously thats a last resort, but if the school knows that you know your legal rights it tends to give them an incentive.

This article talks about how to deal with bureaucracies (its talking about resolving identity theft,but the principle is the same). Look like a dangerously organized professional with a paper trail, and suddenly everything becomes easy. Hopefully you won't need to employ these tactics, but looking like you might is often half the battle.