Wow..I'm glad the school handled it!! A kid in my son's class in 1st grade told him he was going to kill him and his whole family and I called his mom and she laughed it off...said he probably learned it from video games and of course the kid denied ever saying such a thing, though he looked at the ground the whole time and wouldn't look at any of us. I've caught 2 kids 3 years older than my son slamming him against the wall and when I reported it, they said they'd make a note of it, and they made the instigator apologize the next morning...the same kid followed DS around on the playground a few weeks later, poking him and just intimidating him. Another parent saw it and reported it, knowing we had had problems with this kid before...nothing happened to him and the teacher it was reported to didn't know it wasn't a first offense, so they never "made note of it." DS has had his bag hidden, been pushed from the top of the slide, snapped with a towel (That one the teacher actually caught, but the child was not disciplined), spit on (by the same kid who snapped him with the towel, in the same week), tripped, slammed repeatedly against the wall, taunted, told he was going to be killed, kept from getting to his stuff (a couple girls just jumped around in between him and the coat rack so he couldn't get to it), Pushed to the ground and kicked (by the same girl who pushed him from the slide and hid his bag and kept him from his stuff), had a soccer ball kicked as hard as the kids can kick it at him on purpose...not once has the school done anything except talk to the kid and they always accept it when the kid says they didn't do it, or they didn't mean to. Well, when the kid says "Let's play a new game! It's called kick the ball as hard as you can at A.", it's a pretty good indicator that they meant to. I get so furious with the school. DS is 9 and in 5th grade, so he's the youngest in his class, and about half the kids in his class have been held back at least once, so they are all 2 years older than him. We just had him tested for autism and he apparently does not have it, even though he has a lot of similar behaviors. But he's "the weird kid" so he gets bullied constantly. I so hope this therapy helps!! How old is your son again? I'm thinking maybe I need to do some of that yoga
@figmentfan423 is doing to keep the stress levels down.