Bullying
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:51 am
Hi,
Does anyone have any good information on the effects of bullying on a child, and how this would affect the childs learning?
My son suffered bullying for 1 year, starting 2 years before the 11+ and finishing 1 year before. He still affected by this trauma and being the youngest in his class was very vulnerable at the time We still have tears and upset to this day over what happened.
Despite this, because the bullying did not occur over the exam period, the panel seemed to dismiss the bullying as having any affect on his 11+ result. At best they seemed to consider the bullying as fairly lightweight in terms of an extenuating circumstance. That view to me is utterly ridiculous, naive and wholly miss-informed. A young boy who suffers bullying for ayear is OBVIOUSLY going to suffer.
We are going to the Ombudsman with this, however would like to have some hard statistics / facts / findings on this issue. His scores were 134 VR NVR 119 M 113. We've tried looking on the net but not found anything of note. Any suggestions would be very welcome.
Thanks
Does anyone have any good information on the effects of bullying on a child, and how this would affect the childs learning?
My son suffered bullying for 1 year, starting 2 years before the 11+ and finishing 1 year before. He still affected by this trauma and being the youngest in his class was very vulnerable at the time We still have tears and upset to this day over what happened.
Despite this, because the bullying did not occur over the exam period, the panel seemed to dismiss the bullying as having any affect on his 11+ result. At best they seemed to consider the bullying as fairly lightweight in terms of an extenuating circumstance. That view to me is utterly ridiculous, naive and wholly miss-informed. A young boy who suffers bullying for ayear is OBVIOUSLY going to suffer.
We are going to the Ombudsman with this, however would like to have some hard statistics / facts / findings on this issue. His scores were 134 VR NVR 119 M 113. We've tried looking on the net but not found anything of note. Any suggestions would be very welcome.
Thanks