Mummy at the School Gate

After a tense couple of weeks (which I'll be honest-had me weeping buckets), we've come to an impasse with the Finn saga.  That's not to say it's an uncomfortable deadlock, and I have hopes that the bullying will come to a complete end and it won't affect Finn or his future in the way it has.  I think and hope it was something that happened last year, but now I'm aware, I can build my son up to be able to tackle it head on and give him back the confidence he's lost. Funnily enough, no one appears to have seen or heard any thing that may have contributed to the incidents, but I guess that's the way with insidious bullying...and because Finn put on a brave face and didn't complain no one really noticed. His new teacher is understanding (and she is fresh out of uni!) and is "up" on the ways to tackle incidents; pinpointing and recognising issues and dealing with issues without laying blame. I'm hoping subtlety will work so in the meantim

Now they're all back at school I was hoping life would be peaceful and uncomplicated. Each evening, when the kids come home from school we go through the usual. "What did you have for lunch?" "Something black" "What did you do in class?" "Something about war/drawing/got sent out." "What do you have for homework?" "Nothing." However, today it was a little bit different. I have no idea how we got onto the conversation but I think I asked Finn who he played with at break time. "No one",  he said "I just read my comic"  He wasn't moaning just stating a fact. "...then Tom, Robert and David came over and pulled the comic out of my hands and ripped it up." "Ooookaaay", I said carefully, "What did you do?" "Nothing." My son sat there and let some other boys take his comic and rip it up and did nothing. "Why didn't you tell a teacher? Why w