I can tell you this sh!t only happens when the Principle ignores the problem by refusing to address it...or the board is tying their hands so they can't. The parents of those two boys are also complicit.
Our son, who attends a Catholic School- BTW, was having a problem with a boy at school as well. After the third episode ( the principle was involved with the first two) I called the boys Mother and she used the excuse that "Her son has issues because his Dad was in a severe car accident that crippled him a few years ago."(by the way it happened 7 years prior)
My response to her was....."I heard that and I'm sorry but this is the third time this has happened and your son has been brought into the principles office twice but he doesn't seem to be getting the message and although it is terrible what happened to your husband it's no excuse for bad behavior in your son!.......You could hear the shock on the other end of the line....obviously she had never been spoken to like that before.
It became very obvious to me that this was the Mothers standard excuse ....."oh please fell sorry for us"....instead of "I'll make sure it doesn't happen again." As an aside...the mother had never been told about the first two visits her son had made to the Principle's office...surprise, surprise!
I hope that boys family gets a really good Lawyer that takes the other two families and the school system to the woodshed and makes them all pay dearly for this lack of safety and outright brutality.
The only thing these little sick creeps understand is violence, take your child to boxing class or karate, find the dirtiest moves, the most painful blows, testicles, groin, throat, eye gouging, etic.. and tell them its okay to defend themselves. Pain is the only thing a bully fears.If its a group, ambush em’ when the individuals are separated. I did it, they will leave your child alone if they FEAR him.
A well placed blow to the throat with a handy textbook is a great equalizer.