What a morning. My DH took DD to school which is the normal routine. And of course the teacher wasn't there. He did talk to the other teacher and DD held to her story. He then talked to the head mistress and voiced his concerns. The school took it very seriously and spent the morning interviewing the kids involved as well as all the teachers just in case the incident occurred while another teacher was monitoring the class/group. The kids did not admit to doing anything but the head mistress said this would be a normal reaction. She also made it clear to all that hitting is not tolerated and they would be sent to the office with their parents called.
The bottom line is they took it very seriously.
While talking to her I connected some dots about yesterday and DD. When DD came home she was not herself. She was really angry; anger to a level I have never seen before. I assumed it was due to the night before and trick or treating leading to her just being exhausted. But she could be acting out due to being attacked at school. Then this morning she didn't want to go to school and when asked she held to the story about the boys hitting her.
<Sigh> We will have to watch her closely. I do appreciate the school taking this seriously and not blowing it off. The more I think about this the more I fully believe something happened yesterday. The fact that DD held to her story when talking to the teacher makes me think something happened. If it was just a made up story she would have refused to talk.
Now the tricky part. I fully believe she was picked on but I don't believe all of her story. I need to talk to her about it but I don't want her to think we don't believe her yet she needs to understand it isn't okay to make things up. Any suggestions? I thought about the boy who cried wolf but that might be too much right now ... in the idea of hits too close to home and she might take it as we don't believe her.
