Teachers & Principal don't Care
I am from a small town in Kentucky, and I have a 11 year old brother who is overweight. He has continously getting picked on about his size, and my mother and father takes the problem to the Principal but he ignores and acts as if my mother doesn't know what she is talking about. Also, they have been to the County Board and in all honesty they don't do no more than the next person. Who can my parents talk to that will actually get to the bottom of this if our school authority want who will? I dont want my brother to be one of these kids that turns into someone on a rampage and hurt others for his torture, but harm himself cause these selfish pople don't care enough about the kids in the school.
Posted by:
KilaBethany29
Reply from:
Kat Eden
Date: Apr 28, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Reply from:
KilaBethany29 Date: Apr 28, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Thank you so much for replying to my story, I will print some of the stuff out and send to my mom. It just is sad cause thi s man was a teacher of mine and my sisters, and a good friend of my fathers. My mother does get very emotional, but where we are from my brother doesn't have alot of kids in the community to play with so he confines himself to reading and video games. He is a very intelligent boy, and has been top of his class since being in school. He sometimes talks with my mom butwhen I ask him he don't want to talk about it. I don't live in same town and it breaks my heart a child has to go through this. Is there any laws, or someothing maybe our mayor could do if the school authority doesn't step in. School is almost out, and I truely don't think anything serious will be done cause the principal thinks my mom is going overboard with it. To beat it all I thought when a parent comes to you with their child being bullied, the principal should have some type of intervention, instead due to the CATS test going on a the school is barely functioning properly anyway he just walks out the room on my mother while talking to assist a trained professional. Couldn't this person handle their job? I apologize for the hurt or anger I may be putting out but I am truely scared.
Reply from:
concernedteach Date: Apr 30, 2008 at 9:06 pm
Something I would do, is talk to your brother and see if there is one teacher who he thinks he can talk to. This has to be a teacher that won't share what he tells them. Many teachers really do care about the kids. There has to be at least one adult on the campus that cares about your brother. Whether its one of his teacher, the nurse, the secretary, the gym teacher, whoever, he needs to talk to that adult, and so do your parents. If you can get one person in the school on your side, then you can get the attention of those higher up. The mentality of most school officials lately has been that bullying is a part of life, its a growing proccess, but this is not true. Bullying is a growing problem, especially in middle school, and the more we bring attention to it, the more likely we will get it stopped. I hope this helps, and good luck.
~Elle
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