One thing to consider while pending legal actio n: these bullies travel in PACKS. These days, EVERY ONE OF THEM HAS A SMART PHONE. Somebody, or SEVERAL SOMEBODIES, RECORDED THE HAIR CUTTING. DEMAND the cell phones. Not just as evidence, but with the knowledge that if you don't, the video will end up on YouTube/Instagram/TikTok

I was bullied from first to eighth grade (age 5-13). For eighth grade graduation, the class did a T-shirt. Everyone signed the template, and we'd each have a class shirt. Because of my low self esteem, I refused to sign the template. I wasn't going to ruin everyone's shirt like that. The teacher said okay. Had I been confronted with a child with that low of self esteem, I'd have spoken to the parents, the principal, the counselor... but the teacher couldn't care less. What ended up happening was that some of the other kids put together a petition, asking me to sign the template. All but one of the kids signed the petition. After that incident, the bullying decreased remarkably.

If there was suddenly something they could do once legal action was threatened, they've made the case for OPs legal action. They will certainly have been in dereliction of their mandated duties.

As one who was bullied from 3rd to 8th grade (although not as severely as that, but I still don’t think I’ve every really recovered), I hope the family chooses the nuclear option.

Kids learn the bullying behavior from their parents

Parent, educator and just plain outraged person! Your child was physically assaulted! Document, photograph, report to authorities, (police, press, and inform the school board - usually recorded, definitely has printed minutes talen) take legal action!! This school principal and its teachers miserably failed your child. Why on earth had they allowed a bully to teach double lessons that 1) bullying is condoned 2) adoption is something of which to be ashamed!?! No one can advocate better for your child than you! Pull your child from toxicity, demand public attention, action and take legal action against all relevant parties!!

Don't threaten. Never say. DO. Call the police to report the battery on your daughter. Let the parents find out you did it when the police show up at their door. Call CPS, see if this is something they can help with specific to the school or parents. File lawsuit(s): School district, school board, school, teacher, parents. Let them find out you've done it when they're served. Once the lawsuit is filed, you'll have names you can give to the local media. Call the local media. Start building a file that captures every time you talked to anyone (who, when, where, message, outcome.) Same with every time your daughter came home crying. Video her as soon as she gets home so you can convey her emotional state to the jury to get full effect. Photos of the battery. The local media will eat these up. There's' no way you can go overboard with this.

Ah yes, "we'll look into it, promise" followed by nothing actually changing. Never heard THAT one before. Oh how I wish I could say that without it being massively sarcastic. They're giving you a*s-covering lip service at best and if it was me I'd be biting off more heads than a cat in a mouse factory.

Yes, go full steam ahead with the legal action. They had their chance the first time time to stop this, and OP gave them how many more chances? Nah, they fa-qed around, now they need to find out.

It is physical assault pure and simple. What in blue blazes was the teacher doing? Why weren't the pupils involved sent to the head? I would even go as far to say take her out of that school.

The school and the family had their chance to act on the daughter's behalf. They did nothing. Fvck them both. If it were me, I would keep with legal action and take every cent I could squeeze out of them. They have it coming.

Play stupid games win stupid prizes. They knew and didn't do anything until it was too late. What would have happened if it led your daughter to do something drastic. Then it would have been really to late.

Sue! Take em to court. If that bully grows up getting away with this behavior and thinking it's okay, they're only going to traumatize more people and get into more severe legal trouble. Deal with it now.

Sue the pants out of the school and the parents. Their reaction is too litle too late.

Our son was bullied too. And this school district prided itself on their no bully schools. Bs.Get a lawyer! Sue them all and watch something happen! Also get your local media involved ,more families are going to join you!

Too little, too late. Proceed with legal action.

I mean, even if they are TAH (they are not), who cares? This is about protecting your child, screw anyone that thinks protecting your child is an AH move

Google Maps provides public reviews, and who would take their kids to a school that has a reputation for allowing bullying? Who would want to even live near a school like that?

This is a complicated subject. I was severily bullied in school, including physical attacks, getting my things destroyed for years. It was due to my nationality, but also du to difficulties with social situations and a total lack of assertivness. I did not tell my mother (ever), because she had been a popular kid in school and by all her accounts it was obvious to me, she had behaved (though more mildly) the same way as my bullies were to me with kids when she had been in school. I was affraid she would side with the bullies. It was traumatic and she is still mad at me for not reaching out to her for help, saying if I would have, she would have fixed the thing in no time. Tbh, perhaps it is true. But it made me grow. I learned to defend myself, to be assertive, to think before I speak, to accept who I am despite difficulties on my way... was it bad, sure. But it made me a better person to learn to deal with my bullies myself. Legal action sounds good though...

Add all you spoke to about the bullying as defendants of your lawsuit and then take them to court civilly.

Burn that family and the school. Go scorched earth and protect yours. Sue the family and the school onto the ground. Teach the school and everyone in it that words and actions have consequences.

This has no direct bearing to that story, it just so happens that this triggered my memory. I was a terrible bully in school. My friends and I called a particular girl a lot of names for no other reason other than her appearance (that we found funny because we were idiots). One day we (I think it was just me) bullied her so much, in front of the whole school, that she had some sort of reaction and passed out and started to have seizures. I got her and tried to help, holding her head and trying to catch her tongue with some cloth in my hand (that was what we were taught at the time). I stayed with her until the ambulance came. That s**t scarred me so much that I stopped teasing her entirely, and I spent the next three or so months protecting her like she was a tiny bird. Eventually she asked me to stop and just be normal, and we became friends for the last 3 or so years. We were at odds sometimes, and we teased each other, but I was never again cruel, not to her, not to anyone.