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Policy & Practice: Judgment call - The dilemma

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A girl who is being bullied takes revenge on her tormentor by destroying her glasses. Do you punish her according to the rules? A primary school teacher tells how she dealt with the situation.

A couple of weeks ago, my Year 6 pupils were out on the school field fortheir PE lesson. When they returned to get changed one of the girls -let's call her Donna - found that her glasses had been removed from herbag and broken. The remains were next to her bag and I had no idea whowas responsible.

First of all, I phoned her mum who was angry and demanded that theculprit be caught and severely punished. I agreed to mount aninvestigation and began by getting the caretaker to track down CCTVfootage from the time of the lesson. We watched the tape for around 15minutes - then a breakthrough. A girl who should have been on the fieldwas shown entering the changing rooms.

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