School system= BIG FAT FAIL

KGHS

To those of you that do not know…. This is one thing you should care about...

My son was brutally attacked at school on Feb 4^th, 2011 in the school cafeteria. Seven hours before this attack, he went to the vice principal and told them he was going to be jumped. 

What did the school do to protect him?? NOTHING!!! 

The three boys jumped my son as soon as he stood up to leave during lunch period and sucker punched him in the side of the jaw. One of these boys was wearing a class ring. After he hit the ground, one boy continued to beat on him as if he was a punching bag. A Good Samaritan jumped in and got this big boy off my son and was then attacked by the boy and two others. While the two other boys continued to beat on the Good Samaritan, the first boy (with the ring) went back to beating on my son. 

They broke his jaw in three places…requiring him to go to the ER and be transferred to another hospital  an hour and a half away to have another doctor look at him. He then had to go through a four hour surgery to fix his face. They sent him home with his jaw wired shut and unable to eat or drink anything unless it was through a straw.

The school not only failed to protect my son from this attack, but  they also kicked him out of school for 10 days along with the only person who came to help him.

All this because of the county's zero tolerance policy. 

We live in a place where they expect our children to walk away... ok I understand this, but when there are three boys beating you down, you can no longer walk away. There is no choice but to stand and fight as best you can.  

In the days after the fight, we have been able to get both my son and his defender reinstated into the school with this 10 day suspension pulled off their records; a record they should have never had in the first place.

You send your children to school to learn and expect them to feel safe while they are there… 

• Was my son safe? 
• Where was the school when all this was happening? 
• If they were there to help him why did the fight last so long, over five minutes?

The boy that threw the first punch was kicked out of school for 10 days.  This was on a Friday and it took them until Wednesday of the following week to arrest this kid. He spent two days in juvenile correction facility and was arrainged to house arrest with an ankle bracelet. 

Do you know that this child with a felony charge on him and an ankle bracelet is allowed to return to school at the end of his ten days? No questions asked. He is allowed right back in to hurt someone else.

When the school was asked if it was common practice to have children in their school with ankle bracelets on and a felony charge over their head, they replied with "Yes, we have children here with ankle bracelets and some we know have them but not as to why they have them, or others we don’t know at all."

Don’t you feel this should be common practice to protect our children? 

The schools should know who these kids are and why they have ankle bracelets on and whether they are violent or have done a violent crime. Are my children safe? These are all questions that run through my mind when they stated this.

After my son told the school he was going to be jumped they failed to protect him, but the children involved were given a 10 day vacation and allowed to return to school while my son is at home recovering and worrying about his future. They have threatened my child’s life and the lives of his friends, and the school system has done nothing.    

What do we have to do to ensure the safety of our children? When they are attacked who will be there to protect them? If your child is beaten for five minutes before it's broken up, what would have happened if the attacker had a knife or another type of weapon? 

Our county's school system has failed us. The school system cannot protect our children if they allow violent felons to walk the halls of our school and to do as they please. They continue to terrorize whoever they please and the school refuses to do anything because "they are entitled to an education."


Aren't my children entitled to an education in a safe learning environment? Shouldn't my children be able to get an education without fear?