The pictures of Keziah Falanga, the 14-year-old girl from London, with clumps of her hair pulled out are not pretty.
The row over whether it was bullying or not has been just as ugly. Not only do Keziah’s family insist it was, they have also shared screen grabs of the messages she has received online with The Mirror.
She claimed she’d been attacked by four boys who also hurled insults at her during a lunch break earlier this month. At a meeting a week later her family were finally told the boys had been permanently excluded. But Keziah’s sister is upset with the handling of the case.
The police are still looking into it, the school say they will wait for the outcome of the investigation. We clearly have not heard the last of the story by a long shot.
The concerns raised by Keziah’s family, however, provide a snapshot of the trouble with what we know to be bullying in the UK’s schools.
