u/Dry-Ad4319

Hi there everyone! This all happened in a charter school in AZ, to be exact in the Bullhead City/ Fort Mohave/ Mohave Valley area. Imagine a well known bully who’s been kicked out multiple times from different schools, ended up in the same class and school as your kids. By the 7th month attending, this kid made a fame on his own. Then He does something despicable to your child, but because it didn’t happened on schools grounds. The kid is allowed to remain in school as of nothing happened, and not just that; he blames the whole situation on your child. Now him but any his followers started a crusade, bullying and harassed your child. We did anything to not allowed this kid to continue, but this school does anything they can to keep him, because of his education rights. Things got so bad, that one of his followers ended up being expelled from that school for writing a despicable message to my child. But he continues there, while doing more stuff to others. While addressing this issue to the principal at the time. Which btw we never were notified by the school about the note, nor the expelled of the student who wrote it, requested for our child to be the one removed from school, because my child is the one feeling uncomfortable. Even though my child is been part of that school since pre-school. As parents we wanted to shelter, and take them out of that school, then finishing the rest of 7th grade online and look for new options for 8th grade, while working hard on my child’s case( whatever legal challenges anyone could possibly imagine that it needs to be done we did it, and doing it still). Obviously, immediately my child started attending therapy and seemed not to understand why the victim on this case should be the one leaving the school? At the end is the only school my child knows. So, my child’s therapist call us, for a meeting to discuss the issue. It took us few days to decide to continue supporting them attending that school. God knows that was hard. In the meantime, a judge granted us a restraining order to be protected in school. The school tells us that it does not matter because the bully kid has education rights and will do anything possible to keep them apart. But they could not put apart his followers, so they keep being harassed. While continued going to school, now this bully kid keeps escalating his horrible behavior towards others on school grounds during school hours. Summer comes and goes. And first day of 8th grade the bully kid was there, of-course. But his violent behavior keeps escalating more and more. The school keeps giving this bully kid chance after chance, because he is a football player, and all I keep thinking is why they keep him there? “Is he’s probably the best player the school ever had” or “ they see his potential to play on the NFL and when he makes it big, in his biography documentary on Netflix he will mentioned this school name and maybe they’ll add some pictures of him playing with that middle school uniform” or “how much his parents are paying?” or “what kind of big influence the bully kid has, that the school keeps allowing him to messed up more kids with his acts of violence against others”. Just by the beginning of the second quarter of the school year, he does something in and the school deicide finally expelled him. Was like a huge weight was taken away for my child, back to having A’s & B’s again, and getting excited to attend again (I prayed that the other kids he hurt got that too).They have civil rights and educational rights too, which they were never taken seriously, the difference is those kids had no voice, no rights, no influences in that school nor a bright future on the NFL,( I guess). Ok, but bully kid keeps attending some school events, some of them , we have choose not to let our child go to support the very few friends they have left, that was better than see his face again. So, last week was Science Fair at that school, and bully kid was walking through as a guest of the school football coach/ new principal. Walking as the messiah of that school football team, who has never done anything wrong anything despicable to several kids that happened to be showing their science projects. Intimidating the students that he hurt with his presence. The majority the kids he hurt are graduating from 8th grade. Those kids that he hurt had to got to over come a lot to still graduate. I had enough and email the school asking them is that bully kid will be attending graduation day? Answer: Bully kid is not enrolled in school. Would he come as the football coach/ new principal guest? Due to privacy issues we can’t answer that question either. Ok did the school worked this hard to protected the bullied students’ privacy when they allowed him to attend school events? Have the school thought about the children and the families that kid hurt and how we felt, how is helping our kids to pick up their pieces? Do those kids deserve for once that school protect their privacy and receive their diplomas and not have to see in the audience the face of their bully? Or am I being too sensitive?