My girl (8) has been coming home and telling us that one particular girl in her class has been bullying her. We have had talks with her teacher and made her aware of the situation. From what we can uncover it's been petty squabbles between them and nothing major, until today. My daughter came home and said that the girl had tried to stab her at recess with a knife she had brought from home and shouted that she wanted to kill her at the same time. Then at lunch the same girl tried to stab her again with a pointy stick. I contacted the school immediately and spoke to the principle. They are gonna speak to both the kids tomorrow, but I'm not sure how I should handle the situation. I'm not only concerned for my daughter, I'm worried about this other girl. What has happened to her to make her so aggressive and think that it's ok to threaten to kill another person. At what point do we go further than the school to the police? I'm genuinely scared that this will happen again or to another kid and someone will be really hurt... Or worse.
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Perhaps request a mediation meeting at school with u ur daughter the principal and the other child and parents. Then hopefully everyone is on the same page and the parents deff know their kid needs serious help. If it happens again after the meeting I would be contacting the cops for sure
I would contact the police now. It's escalated and this was a very serious threat. They have child protection units to deal with this stuff.
After determining that your daughter is telling the truth I would contact the principal and request a meeting, I would advise that I'm notifying the police also.
I would also start to check out other schools in the area, asking how they would handle such a situation.
How terrifying for you both, good luck! X
If the other child is only 8 the police unfortunately can't actually do anything. My daughter was bullied physically (the hand marks around my daughters throat were clearly visible) threatened to be cut into pieces & thrown into a creek when she was also 8. I rang the parents who said it wasn't their problem as he was just being a boy;I went to the school who gave the child detention. I went to police (who were lovely) but their hands were tied as the child was too young. They even went to children's services on my behalf to get them to follow up (as this family was 'known to the police'), but nothing was done. We ended up moving house & schools to keep my daughter safe. The child involved ended up hitting a teacher so he was expelled. I was mortified that the life of a student was a lesser value than that of a teacher. This child ended up in & out of juvenile detention due to serious assaults as he got older. My advice is to take it seriously & protect your child at all costs.