Well, spoke with the principal. she blew it off. Told me that the kids were just "jockying to get the chair" yesterday. I said I could understand that if it had been an isolated incident but given that we have three other episodes of verbal and physical assault, I needed her to take it seriously. She said she'd talk to him and his parents again to which I replied that was clearly not working and I was concerned my daughter's safety was not at all being taken seriously. I asked for the boy to be removed from the class at least, which she refused to do. She said she'd move my daughter though. Um, not a chance. I'm not having my kid punished when she's the victim. So I said I'd have to go to the police as the next step. Which I'm now heading out to do.
I seriously don't understand how this isn't being taken seriously. A suspension (after which another incident occurred) and 'talking' to him? This stuff is obviously not getting through to him. I'm going to try to be calm and go through the right channels with this, but like... I could cause such a fucking stink if I brought this to the media or social media. This is a brand new elementary school - 2 months old - and the principal is letting little girls be physically assaulted and not taking immediate steps to ensure the safety of her students. It's mind boggling.
And to make it all worse, to be basically be told my kid is lying. "The art teacher was standing nearby and she didn't see anything." Well maybe that's because you have 36 kids in the class and she can't watch anything with that many kids.
