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Can i sue the school district for stressing my son and myself? |
he has been bullied on many times at this school.he has had bruises i have took pictures.the school said they would make sure he would not be in the same class this new year with the last kid that left marks. I AM NOT SUE HAPPY. I'm sure you could sue, people sue over stupid things all the time, but your chances of winning are quite slim. Though the school is partially responsible for the bully's actions, in reality they can't do much to prevent the bully from picking on your son, they can only punish him after it happens. The fact that they are moving the child from your son's class means they're taking the action you requested, and in all honest it was mostly likely a simple mistake when they placed him in your son's class to begin with. The school has a lot of things to worry about, and hand-designing students' rosters falls lower on the list than you'd like to think. I wouldn't sue the school over something as petty as this. You haven't suffered as much stress as you'd like to believe you have, especially since the problem is being corrected. Me thinks you have got problems. Report It Sure, they took a major break, that's why I can actually function using correct grammar. Quit trying to look for a reason to sue someone and call the police! File an assault charge against the kid who bullied your son and a restraining order keeping the little bastard away from your kid -- then let the school worry about how to enforce THAT. You're going to have to ambush the bully on his way home, and beat the stuffing out of him. Tell him that if you hear he bothers your kid again, you will effing kill his whole family. Tell him that if he tells anyone, you will effing kill his whole family. When you're confronted about this, it'll be your word against his -- and you can say that you know he has it in for your family (show photos). If you want to sue someone, sue the kid and his parents for your son's personal injuries. But a lawsuit is the least practical plan and will not stop the bullying. The school does have an obligation and responsibility to protect your son but if they are moving the bully out next week, what's the problem? I've got news for you. School administrators only care about covering their own @sses and keeping the system running smoothly, which means treating the kid who gets bullied as if he's part of the problem and/or washing their hands of the matter by telling you there's no legal requirement for them to guarantee any particular child's safety. As far as they're concerned, the bully also has a right to an education so they don't feel there's a lot they can do to him. But the first thing to do is to make absolutely sure that your son isn't contributing to confrontations. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to blame the victim here. But if it turns out that your son willingly engages this bully in a fight when he approaches him instead of immediately walking away, it could look bad for both of you and he will lose all credibility. One thing you should encourage your son to do is to stop being a loner (I could be wrong here, but in many cases the bullying victim allows himself to become depressed and socially isolated). Bullies deliberately pick on kids who keep to themselves all the time because they know that nobody will stand up for them. Try to get your son to make more friends, and in particular tell him to get other kids to accompany him when he walks from one class to another, or when he goes to the bus. A student is far less likely to be harassed by bullies when they see other kids associating with him, and will prefer going after an easier target instead. I wouldn't recommend a karate class for him, unless you know what you're looking for and are certain that it's a school which strongly emphasizes confrontation-avoidance and resolution techniques as well as teaches kicking and punching. Most martial-arts schools are competition-oriented and are actually more likely to get a kid into a fight, and all the fancy chop-suey kicking and punching in the world isn't going to help your son if he's up against somebody twice his size or if the bully's friends decide to jump in. Like I said, schools have no real estabished legal requirement to protect one child from another, so I doubt you would succeed in a civil lawsuit. But as a last resort, you could consider reporting any assaults to the police. It may not be the principal's job to enforce the law, but assault is still a crime even in the case of minors. |
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