The system is all fucked!
My 5YO was bullied at his school last year here in Brisbane. It was a Montessori school and they didn't want to get involved. They kept denying it and blaming my boy for being antisocial or some shit. It was only when other parents got involved and mentioned this little shit had been beating up other kids that they took any notice whatsoever. The little shit was the biggest kid in the class and would kneel on other kids knecks while he punched them in the face. Thankfully that never happened to my boy.
It only stopped when my wife picked my boy up from school one day and went and had harsh words to the other kids dad. The teachers ran over and tried to stop her with shit like "that's not how we do things here" but my wife didn't care. The little shit laid off a bit after that but we left that school at the beginning of this year anyway.
We thought it was all behind us because now my boy goes to Prep at BBC which is a pretty good school. But this stuff has consequences. Now my boy has hit a teacher twice and yelled "I hate you" at them and stuff. He is now branded as the bully and is in counselling at age 5 with the in-school counsellor. I had taught him to fight back and shown him the odd move, but its got carryover. At least he seems to have stopped it now and is back on the good boy path, but they threatened to chuck him out of the school because hitting teachers is an absolute no go zone.
If the other little shit had been any older I would have flatenned him, but what do you do with a 5YO bully?
Its all bullshit.
/rant off/ This stuff makes my blood boil.
Cheers,
Mike