Unfortunately, your experience is not unique. Last week our 11 year old daughter was called (in her words) "a female dog" by a boy in her classroom who them proceeded to put his hands around her neck and choke her. The substitute teacher blamed her! We filed a report with the school and it was handled the next day, but the boy was back after a few days. This is not a case where there was a history as with the bully you speak up, so hopefully this is the end of it. At 11 any child doing this needs serious help. However, we have had numerous repeated bullying issues in the last couple of years and the schools just couldn't seem to deal with it. To be honest, they are not all that well equipped (and certainly not well funded enough) to manage these issues; however, too many parents seem unable or unwilling to parent. I have to wonder if this is a symptom of some combination of home stress, lack of mental healthcare, little parental time, and the fact that our school's (at least here in the US) are now largely punitive environments for teachers and students alike.

I really hope the school does more in your case. I suspect that here threatening someone with a knife in school would be treated more harshly, though I'm not sure of it. Our same daughter watched a boy punch a girl at lunch last year and nothing much happened to him even though he was known to be prone to violence.

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