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Find out who the head of the governors is, get your friend to write and sign a short mini-statement and say it was dealt with by being told (refer to the member of staff) to 'keep away from them'. Say that it isn't the first time it's happened, because it happened to you only a few days ago.
That's ridiculous, the school has a duty of care, if they know there are disruptive pupils for whatever reason it is their responsibility to safeguard the other students. You have a right to be safe walking down a corridor, or sitting in the post 16 room, and at the moment you're not and it's not a one off, and the school is blatantly turning a blind eye.
If I was you I'd be fuming!
I agree tbh. This is twice in a week that someone has been hurt.... I can't offer advice on exactly what shold be done, but "keep away" isn't exactly practical in a school.
regarding bullying, but I think the avenue is still appropriate in this situation.
http://www.parentscentre.gov.uk/behaviouranddiscipline/bullying/
best of luck
A girl who's in my class is in the student council and said she'll bring it up at the next meeting. My friend won't report it again - she doesn't want to make a fuss.
You've got to get pretty close to someone for them to be able to slap/punch you, so stay away doesn't necessarily mean stay 100m away, 3feet will do.
Kids were told to stay away from me at junior school, because I was very defensive of my personnal space, but 3 feet was all it needed to be.
I guess the problem here is that many people (SEN or not) are unpredictable, so it might be a bit hard to warn them about what these people may or may not do to them.
If you had a young child in a supermarket who smashed loads of jam, you'd have to pay for example (unless I was the employee cos I'm nice and tell you not to worry about it
But just because a school doesn't directly make money, you're still a customer and deserve to be respected appropriately, they do receive money for you being there and should therefore not only teach you your subjects, but look after your health and safety, as with any business they have a duty of care. Whether it's students with SEN or young crazy children
i dont think the OP deliberately walked right by this girl, she was near her because she needed to get past
I've spoken to a few teachers about it and they all say that we need to make ourselves heard or they just won't bother doing anything about it. But if only a few people complain then they won't listen. I will talk to my head of 6th when i see her and see what goes from there anyway.
From what you are describing it would seem that the level of support provided may not be acceptable - there's nothing unusual about supportive enviroments trying to cut staff until they reach a crisis point. They tend to wait for reports of problems before pushing the levels back up again.
And whilst I don't think you should see it as 'them' and 'us' - the people with SEN would seem to be being denied the support they have a right to - the people without SENs seem to be being denied the level of security you've a right to. You are both in the same boat in the end - and you need to make people aware of it.
I'll count up how many carers and pupils there are next week - because i don't think there's many carers actually. I'm not sure how their school is funded.
This next bit isn't an insult in anyway shape or form, just an attempt to help you get your case listened to and get you more respect from the college authorities.
You will get a lot lot further if you drop the 'them and us' attitude/wording, even if it's just for ease of explaining. You do your case no favours at all, likewise you need to stop banding all the pupils from the SEN school together, just like your sixth form they are all individuals and have different behaviour and it makes you come across as a whinging, intolerant, judgemental and selfish person, which I'm sure you're not.
I was trying to explain how the use of language and phrasing is important (although evidently I'm not that hot at it myself) and was making the point about the phrasing, not the person.
Thanks for the comment about how I 'appear' Jim, I take it I can follow your example and leave my comment up.
I would just like to point out that there are certain people with SEN that won't always need a carer - I know of a few people like this. They will get a carer during the lesson, but not one who goes around with them all day because they don't always need them.
Tbh we would never recommend you edit your own posts - unless of course for grammar, punctuation or to add something - it's pretty disruptive and confusing.
So while in theory using the same terms you'd use for other people *should* be ok, people will leap on you because they think that those with SEN need defending from such things.
It's a case of working the system and phrasing things how they like to hear them said, and trying to pre empt things being thrown back at you or ignored.