Bypass the teacher and go directly to the principle. The teacher is way off base in handling a bullying problem.
The principle needs to address this problem with the teacher, the child and his parents.
And if the principle doesn't handle it properly, then you have to take it to the school board.
It's best to stop the little bully while he is very young. He is threatening great bodily harm, and your son feels threatened. It is not a good experience for your son to go through every day.
My son was being bullied by the
teacher AND the principle in the 2nd grade, would you believe. I had to remove him from the private school and enroll him in a public school.
(He liked to tell jokes in class and make the kids laugh. For that he was never allowed to participate in field trips and school parties. So I merely kept him home on those days, so he did not know he was being badly ostracized. The teacher had a nervous breakdown and ended up in the hospital. She could not handle anything in the classroom any more. But not because of my son. She had a long-standing illness. But because the principle of the private school could have transferred him to another class, and was nasty with me, and preferred to mistreat my son, I switched him to a public school for the 3rd grade. Saved me money, and he liked it much better. He never had a problem in the new school. So it worked out for the best.
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The slogan 'Press On' has solved, and always will solve, the problems of the human race.
President Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933)