Alice: I feel for you having to deal with the broken collar bone incident, but I have to ask this, what about the parents of the offender? Were you able to talk to them, because having sufferred the verbal abuse of my 10 year old daughter, I know that however cooperative the scope of the school is somewhat limited. Discipline is all very well at the school level, but if the kid is going back to a home situation where the parent/s don't care you are not going to stop the violence.