A 15-year-old Christchurch girl has been driven out of her school by bullies just seven weeks before important exams begin.
The girl allegedly received text messages from one tormenter’s parents, who did not want the girl to get her mother involved.
The girl’s mother is desperately trying to enrol her in another school – a process that can take about a month.
The girl cannot sit her National Certificate of Educational Achievement level 1 exams unless she is enrolled in a school.
She hopes to start a hairdressing or tourism course next year.
Trouble began when she started at Catholic Cathedral College towards the end of last year.
She initially became friends with a group of girls in her class. They turned on her about six months ago.
They would hit her, throw wet toilet paper at her and write nasty messages on Facebook, she said.
A friend, who has since left Christchurch, was “punched in the face in the car park at school” by the same bullies.