School assault -course of action?

Boys will be boys.

Get the complete truth behind the story, and if your nephew was a victim for no apparent reason, then get the police involved. Furthermore, if the headteacher doesn't solve the problem to your satisfaction, get the governers or local county council involved.

Not that I am condoning violent retaliation but could always get the nephew into some self-defence classes.
 
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Your not allowed to carry knives or swords, but what about maces? Should have got one and smashed his head in with it, would make the world a better place. :)
 
Corran said:
Can't say anyone ever hammered me so that's a load of rubbish. A little but of name calling and teasing / bullying (whatever you want to call it) is normal, being hit a few days in a row isn't.
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We had the craze of dead legs. Two big lads would both knee you in each leg at the same time. Your legs would give away and you would struggle to walk for days, brought people to tears.
 
i supposed it should be said that you need to get the whole truth from your nephew. If it was an unprovoked attack than ues get the police invovled but if it was 50:50 and he gave as good as he got than he could end up in just as much trouble
 
bigredshark said:
I'm sorry, back up, what has he actually done worth getting the police involved for?

I went to what would probably be called a pretty good school, it wasn't in any way rough and it still gets fantastic results. Surprise surprise there were a few fights, some more serious than others, blood spilt on the odd occasion and parents summoned a few times but never anything so dramatic as calling the police. Kids will fight occasionally, I'm sure they do at Eton even.

I just think there's a tendancy for parents to be far too protective.

If the resident bully if threaten to stab your son, then fine, call the police, if he just punched him then I'd say it's just part of growing up..
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You really don't think assault and battery is a matter for the police? Bullying is unacceptable, physical violence is unacceptable. Why is a mere threat more serious than the act of actual physical violence, which can leave behind mental scars for quite some time after? You have your views all jumbled up.
 
Sinque said:
Pretty much, everyone gets a good hammering off eachother at school.
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Never been in a fight at school. I'm not one of the quiet loner types or anything either. Never been bullied or anything.

It's not normal.
 
Hxc said:
Never been in a fight at school. I'm not one of the quiet loner types or anything either. Never been bullied or anything.

It's not normal.
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Me neither and I was part of the main group. Yet we all still hammered eachother.
 
Shock horror, a schoolyard fight ends in a black eye! What the hell is matter with kids these days, are they all wimps. Tell him to grow a pair and stand up to the guy, hell, tell him to give him a black eye of his own. I can't imagine the grief he's going to get if you go marching into the school with photographs and start grassing on the puncher. Anyway, how do you know it's bullying? The lad could've opened his mouth once too often and deserved a slap.

Playground scraps happened all the time when I was at school and nobody ever got the police involved. Even if the teachers witnessed it there was no comeback apart from either a clip around the head or a few whacks of the cane.
 
ITT people exagerrate school playground fights. Yes I saw my fair share too but none of them ever actually amounted to visible physical injury.
 
KNiVES said:
You really don't think assault and battery is a matter for the police? Bullying is unacceptable, physical violence is unacceptable. Why is a mere threat more serious than the act of actual physical violence, which can leave behind mental scars for quite some time after? You have your views all jumbled up.
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It's not assault and battery, it's kids being kids, you play football at lunchtime, somebody trips you up once too often and you take a swing at them in the heat of the moment. It's cause for a right bollocking from the headteacher but far removed from being a matter for the police.

Threatening violence with a weapon is much more serious than taking a swing at someone.

Go join the 'competitive sport is bad for kids' brigade...
 
Sinque said:
No, it was the crack at school? Was just a laugh.
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That's what you think but I bet a lot of people thought you were a douchebag back then though. Just something to think about.
Go join the 'competitive sport is bad for kids' brigade...
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Yep because I put sports on the same level as beating some kids up and giving them black eyes. You're a magnificent idiot.
 
Sinque said:
We had the craze of dead legs. Two big lads would both knee you in each leg at the same time. Your legs would give away and you would struggle to walk for days, brought people to tears.
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So did we, and the dead arm craze when we had the BCG. The making the "OK" sign with your hand, getting someone to look at it then hitting them on the arm because they fell for it. There was a brief phase of hitting someone in the thigh with an open stapler.... that was one of the more stupid ones. The thing is it was never meant as a form of abuse, it was idiotic but it was in jest.

I had all of that, it was tit for tat and it wasn't hitting another kid in the face unprovoked a few days in a row. There is a difference between banter and bullying. There was bullying in my school but it was always stamped all over pretty quickly it was rarely physical to begin with.

Saying that it may not have been unprovoked anyway and as someone else said it may be 50/50.
 
Azagoth said:
Shock horror, a schoolyard fight ends in a black eye! What the hell is matter with kids these days, are they all wimps. Tell him to grow a pair and stand up to the guy, hell, tell him to give him a black eye of his own. I can't imagine the grief he's going to get if you go marching into the school with photographs and start grassing on the puncher. Anyway, how do you know it's bullying? The lad could've opened his mouth once too often and deserved a slap.

Playground scraps happened all the time when I was at school and nobody ever got the police involved. Even if the teachers witnessed it there was no comeback apart from either a clip around the head or a few whacks of the cane.
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I don't often agree with your posts, but at last some sense...

He is going to be a laughing stock if parents start coming in to complain, it's basically the sure fire way to make things worse...
 
Corran said:
So did we, and the dead arm craze when we had the BCG. The making the "OK" sign with your hand, getting someone to look at it then hitting them on the arm because they fell for it. There was a brief phase of hitting someone in the thigh with an open stapler.... that was one of the more stupid ones. The thing is it was never meant as a form of abuse, it was idiotic but it was in jest.
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I absolutely hated that one :p
 
bigredshark said:
It's not assault and battery, it's kids being kids, you play football at lunchtime, somebody trips you up once too often and you take a swing at them in the heat of the moment. It's cause for a right bollocking from the headteacher but far removed from being a matter for the police.

Threatening violence with a weapon is much more serious than taking a swing at someone.

Go join the 'competitive sport is bad for kids' brigade...
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Taking an swing at someone is far far from a competitive sport. To make that comparision you have to be pretty stupid. O and before you try to brand be in the 'competitive sport is bad for kids' brigade i have boxed, played rugby and done several martial arts since i was around 10 yet have never taken an swing at someone over something as stupid as a bad tackle
 
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