her twice on school property. Nothing was done about that. Except handling it through peer mediation. He has intimidated her on many occasions. Which both my husband and I would call or visit the school.
They caught him on video throwing jello on her during her lunch time, not his. We were left with no choice but to file a complaint against him with the Lakewood police department. (The school told us they couldn't do anything). There are charges filed against him with the County Juvenile Court. Apparently from my daughter and a few other girls complaints. He still walks around the hallways freely at the high school. He and some of his friends still harass my daughter daily. She has been punched from behind in the hallways, kicked and threatened.
The school now claims that that can't do anything until his pre-trail. - Any advise?
(Cont) Please bare with me I'm new to this.
Thanks, we are now at the point where it is going to trail. Both children have a no contact order against them. (They both have to have an escort walk them through the halls at school). If the school does not provide an escort they are in violation of the order as well. For three days this week the escort did not show up to walk my daughter to some of her classes. (If she is caught with out an escort she could be put on house arrest) I've had to call the prosecutors office each day. Now we are trying to obtain a lawyer to sue the school. (Its hard to find a lawyer that will go against the school system.) Something that could have been handled so simply is now so blow out of proportion. My daughter is suffering, we had to take her to a therapist. She feels like she is being treated like the one that has done something wrong. It so hard when she cries herself to sleep at night.
I found out about a group that is starting up. Its for parent that are having problems with the Lakewood School System. Their next meeting is May 19th. If anyone is interested I could give you the location. We are always stronger in numbers.
I did try talking to the Law Director of Lakewood. I talked to his assistant alot in great detail, never to him. I guess he didn't feel it was important enough to call me back. Maybe he will think that is important if we sue him too.
I don't really want to sue anyone. However things have got to change. In the school policies states...
. Assault/Harassment
A student shall not cause physical injury, sexual harm, or behave in such a way, which could cause physical injury to other persons. A student shall not intimidate, harass, coerce, or threaten other persons so as to cause them emotional, social, or physical distress. It is understood that violation of rules specific to individual schools, which are considered not so serious in nature as the above offenses, will result in less severe disciplinary action.
It took so many phone calls, meetings and finally legal action to get them to take notice. One of bigger and earlier questions his how could he so easily transfer into some of her classes, when it took me 4 months to change one of her classes. And that was only after I played tapes of the disruptions on the classroom for the Principal.
The young man is of Arabic Descent - We were told it was a cultural problem by the school at the start of this. He is a minor and shall remain nameless at this time. I do not want to make a racial or cultural issue of this. Plain and simple it is about a boy harassing a small girl both sexually and by intimidation. He is a bully in all sense of the word. School peer mediation is crap. No one wants to offend anyone - this has nothing to do with his race.
Ok I'm starting to ramble.
