A FATHER whose daughter’s eyes were wounded in two separate classroom incidents is demanding tougher discipline.

Once again, 14-year-old Chloe Woodbridge, a student at Wilmington Hall School, Dartford, found herself wearing an eye patch after she was hit in the eye with a pencil thrown by a classmate.

The object was thrown over the shoulder of the same pupil who threw another pencil in March last year, which hit Chloe’s right eye, leaving it scratched and scarred.

Following the most recent incident on Tuesday, June 13, Chloe, of Garrolds Close, Swanley, had to have a piece of lead removed from her eye under local anaesthetic.

Chloe’s mother, Theresa, 34, said: “I am really worried that it’s going to happen again. I do not want her left eye to be as bad as her right.”

The school says it has dealt with the matter appropriately and takes a tough stance on bullying and disruptive behaviour.

Chloe's 47-year-old father, Robert, said: “I was assured when this happened last year that it would not happen again and it has.”

He said he would have liked the school to have excluded the pupil temporarily and added: “It seems that there is a general lack of discipline and the message is not getting through to the children.”

Miss Belinda Langley-Bliss, the deputy head teacher, said: “It was an accident and the pupil spent two days in isolation with just another member of staff.”

Miss Langley-Bliss added that the school had been praised by Ofsted inspectors in February for its commitment to reduce bullying.