‘Beat the Sh*t Out of Him!’: Video Shows Bully Beating Autistic Child as Peers Watch
- Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:51pm by
Billy Hallowell
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A startling video has emerged that shows a sixth-grade autistic boy being beaten by another child as peers simply stand, watch — even encourage — the violence. The tragic scene shows the victim, Kaleb Kula, a student at Elkton Middle School in Cecil County, Maryland, being punch directly in the face.
The child opened up in an interview with ABC-2 News, telling the station that he has been a victim of bullying for years. Along with autism, Kaleb has been diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder).
“I knew I was probably going to get injured,” he said. “I wasn’t really scared because I knew what would happen.”
In the video, one child can be heard saying, “Beat the sh*t out of him! This is going on YouTube!”
WMAR-TV has a report that includes the shocking clip:
Kaleb went on to share some of the horrific comments and abuse that are thrown his way during a typical day at school.
“[The other children] call me homosexual,” Kaleb explained. “They try kicking me, pushing me, punching me, and a lot of other things.”
The child’s parents are besides themselves. James Kula, Kaleb’s father, says the family has tried repeatedly to receive help as a result of the torment. Now — finally — something is being done, as the child who hit Kaleb has been charged as a jevenile with second-degree assault.
The video was discovered after one of the kids watching the incident taped it and then posted it on Facebook. It was there that Kaleb’s parents first saw it.
“It’s very stressful I mean you worry all the time, is he going to have a good day, are they going to do anything about when he has trouble with other students,” Jessica, Kaleb’s mother, said. “It feels terrible as a parent to watch that happen to your son. And I just can’t believe that kids can be so mean.”
“At least kids that don’t have special needs can defend themselves a little bit more. He’s pretty much defenseless,” James, Kaleb’s father, added.
Kaleb says he will try to put the incident behind him, although he is afraid that he will be confronted with it again. “It’s like a groundhog trying to run from its shadow,” he said.
(H/T: Huffington Post)
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islamhater
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:41pmWhen i was growing up if someone picked on a kid that had special needs he/she would have got the crap beat out of them.. I raised 3 girls on my own and had a boy that hit and pulled my daughters hair everyday on the bus. It stoped when i asked him where he lived. He asked why? I told him i was going to his house and was going to beat the **** out of his dad everytime he touched my daughter.When his dad got tired of me whooping his ass he would make sure his son stopped. i went to his house his dad wanted no part of it. That kid never touched my daughter again. Stand up..
Report Post »Bronx
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:48pmI agree with you 100%. The only way to stop this bully crap is to beat the hell out of the parents.
Report Post »Harry Assenback
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:54pmStomp a Mudhole in them! You did the right thing!
Report Post »TheGoo
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:07pmKaleb is the victim here; his face is not blocked out, but the IDENTITY OF THE ASSAILANT IS PROTECTED? I guess the miserable stain who punched Kaleb isn’t guilty, despite being caught on video.
Justice for those who are entitled and can afford the pricetag.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:39pm@TheGoo Very good point. The kid posted himself on youtube but the tv station is protecting his identity and making dam sure that other potential bullies can identify the victim.
Report Post »Eaglesnest
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:53pmI agree and to add to that, if you find out that your kid is bullying someone, beat the snot out of your kid and ask them how it feels. My dad would have. Parents should not tolerate this behavior from their own kids, that is where it all starts. I was WAY more afraid of my parents (especially my dad) then I was the school system or the police, for that matter.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 3:04pmExactly! Nobody messed with the retards in my school. Picking on them earned you a punch out from the most noble bully in the pack. Sometimes that was even a girl.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 3:06pmKaleb is overweight so thank the parents for that…being overweight also makes him a target. Let the kid shed some of those pounds and learn some self defence from Dad if he has any sense.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:26pmIHater
When I was in school anyone threatening the weak would be beaten up. I don’t know when this changed. I know I raised by 3 kids with this protection ethic.
Report Post »islamhater
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:46pmI forgot to add one thing to that story i posted above. That boy who was pick’ing on my daughter is now in prison for rape. Parent‘s wake up for kid’s sake..
Report Post »ConserveChrist
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:40pmWhy Black out the kid’s face? I think he deserves to be exposed. poor kid, and he likes Zelda too, he’s awesome.
Report Post »V-Forge
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:23pmI agree. After all he did it because he wanted to be on youtube. That means he signed over all rights to his privacy in an attempt to be noticed by as many people as possible. It’s kind of like a kid asking for privacy about his tweets or facebook posts. I’m sure obama would like a nice private state of the union address too. i ended a similar problem back in school. i was harassed for years and one day i caught him alone in the boys room with his pants down and kicked in the stall door and beat the krap out of him. He never talked about it and i was never bothered by him or his friends again.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:32pmYou’re 100% right since he wanted the video to go on line that means he wanted the whole world to see it .
Report Post »That was sick & the school didn’t do anything about it even when the complaint started I guess they were more interested in getting their paycheck .
alina.bolero
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:40pmThank goodness we have the Nanny State to take our children from us and force them into institutions where they can be physically abused like this. +1 Tyranny
Report Post »smithclar3nc3
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:49pmExactly the parents have a choice and the schools have a choice. The parents could remove their kid from public school home school him,they could send him to self defense class and let him stay in school,or they could sue the other kids p[arents for creating a monster. The schools could set a zero tolerence rule one fight out for the year,they could set a zero tolerence one fight removed remove general population for the year. In the end nothing will be done about the mess the government has made
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:59pmThis type of thing happens with schools with a zero bullying rule. No one cares in our public schools. They are simply raising useful idiots. Parents have stopped parenting and have tv, computers, and game systems raising their kids. Our country is messed up and I am not sure how or if it can ever be turned around.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:03pmHave you ever tried to homeschool an autistic child? I have, it ain‘t easy and takes a certain amount of patience that a lot of people don’t have. I was lucky, as this was in the state of Hawaii, and they sent me a home therapist 3 times a week to help deal with the autism. Small towns don’t have that. They would be on their own.
Report Post »rocketwrangler
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:38pm@ LORIANN12 No one said it would be easy. Do you think it’s easy on this kid to get bullied? As a homeschooling parent are you going to do everything perfectly? Of course not, but I bet any parent who loves their kids could do better than MOST school districts. As a former public school teacher, I saw school administrators with “no tolerance” rules turn and look the other way time and time again. My best advice to parents with kids facing bullying: Take care of the situation immediately and decisively on the first occurence. Do not expect the school or police to protect your kids.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 6:48amActually, I found homeschooling my down syndrome, autistic child easier than homeschooling my gifted child. I said some people don’t have the patience for it. I actually agree with homeschooling over the establishment if at all possible.
Report Post »GetRealThinker
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:39pmSchool admin. are worthless. Someone said it earlier, all they do is CYOA. We knew a young lady freshman in high school that the basketball coach started to date. (female coach). The relationship was not that hidden as other players knew of it and even one parent removed her daughter from any class that teacher was part of. We went to the school, spoke to the principle and he said they school would investigate this. The school came back and said they could not find enough evidence to go any further. Not even with the copies of the love letters shared between the student and teacher! Next thing you know the teacher leaves the school and starts teaching in the same county at another school. We called that school and they had no idea the teacher was investigated. 2 years later, I hear that teacher is moving to my area high school. I immediately call the principle tell him the story, show him the letters and they say they can only keep an eye on her since there are no prior records in her file. Making a long story short, schools protect themselves, not the children they teach!
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:36pmThe parents of the idiot child who attacked Kaleb should be publicly shamed as they are responsible for their childs abhorrent behavior. I am sure they are a couple of degenerates whose lives revolve around Dancing With The Stars.
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felix
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:34pmbut if a kid is found with a pocket knife , all hell breaks loose !
Report Post »greg4fitness
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:33pmTo all parents…. talk to your kids. Every time I see stuff like this I use it as an opportunity to show them and talk to them… not just for two seconds but for a long time. Engage your kids and don’t let them turn into bullies.
Report Post »its_the_economy_stupid
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:48pmIt has to be so much more than just educating your children…it has so much to do with sticking up for those who cannot stick up for themselves.
Big cowards create little cowards…how many children were at this bus stop and not ONE of them stood up for this kid?
I believe self-defense lessons are in order for this little guy… and character lessons for the little cowards who did not stick up for him…and a real good “fanny-tanning” for the bully.
Report Post »Charybdis
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:56pmI’m afraid the America that once would have seen other kids stand up for the autistic kid like that is sadly dying out.
Report Post »cmsdrizzt
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:01pmYour so right, The last one of these on YouTube I sat down and watched with my son. I asked him where do you see a problem here? His first answer unfortunately was the indoctrinated school answer where the victim should not have fought back. I had to explain to him fights and bullying will happen, the real problem was the 10 onlookers who did nothing to help the victim. Don’t be an onlooker. All it takes is one person to stand up to make a difference.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 3:11pmThese fights like this were a routine of my daily school life growing up on Clevelands Westside. It never made the news. I find it fascinating that one punch can get this much coverage but then again he is labled Autistic so that whole thing places him automatically in the I feel sorry for you category where we give special attention to. Like I said, give the kid permission to fight anyone who attacks him and soon the attacks stop…notice how small the kid was compared to Kaleb? How he punched and ran?
Report Post »greg4fitness
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:22pmI noticed when in school…. a really long time ago. Alot of the bullies were smaller kids. They’d find someone weak physically or mentally or just someone too timid to fight back and go after them so they could feel powerful. I got bullied by a kid just like that. After I got that one punch in the face just like this kid got and said to myself… “that’s it” I wasn’t afraid anymore. I got worse beatings from my older brothers than that on a daily basis. It wasn’t a good day for the bully after that realization.
Not everyone has an epiphony like I did so hopefully parents can teach their kids to stick up for the kids being bullied.
Report Post »Sgt_Rock
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:26pmThe schools reaction is so typical of these cases, CYA. I would love to hear from the parents of the kid who punched the Kaleb.If they are worth their salt, they would be embarrassed, appalled and supportive of the system in an effort to teach their kid a lesson. But me thinks that will not be the case, since the attitude of the parent’s is probably reflected in the behavior of the child. Little predators like this grow up to be big predators unless they are intercepted at a young age and redirected. Of course that requires parental support. Unfortunately, most parents of these kinds of kids take the opposite track, and reinforce the behavior by their own actions. Anyone want to wager that there is domestic violence in this little turd’s home. At least abuse of some kind, or if the father is in the home at all? I would be interested in seeing what kind of adult the assailant becomes. Someone should track him and see where he ends up…just a guess mind you, but my money is on the criminal justice system being a big part of his adult life, and I don‘t mean he’s gonna grow up to be a cop or a lawyer.Granted he’ll meet a lot of cops and need some good lawyers (Oxymoron?), but I doubt he will espouse such goals himself. I hope I’m wrong. Now is the time to make the best of this moment and use it as a tool to redirect this kid…otherwise we will all pay eventually.
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:43pmMakes me wonder………if the kid thought he might be homosexual, or he thought, maybe he was really a girl in a boy’s body, then this problem would have been dealt with a long time ago.
Report Post »Sgt_Rock
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:53pmYep, the govenment sponsored victim class or classifications…I wonder if Holder has published such a list internally at DOJ. The new criteria for “victim”….Hmmmm, makes ya think don’t it. We know who would not be on the list.
Report Post »mils
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:25pmIf the police and social services do not move on this…there needs to be an out cry in Cecil County, Maryland
Report Post »What kind of parents does this boy have???? What kind of kid sit around and allow this to happen???
WHERE ARE THE AUTHORITIES????
Hello Maryland!!!
rlmeals
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:24pmI hate to sit here and judge the parents, especially because we were interviewed on the news after my son had an accident and was burned and care flighted to the hospital, and several of the comments on the news story wore horribly mean accusing us of being bad parents and needing to have CPS take my kids away for us being negligent to watch him. It hurt so badly, even if it was just strangers on the internet. (By the way, some idiot buried hot coals in the sand at the lake and my son stepped in it…grandpa was standing right next to him supervising, but how do you detect something like that? It was just an unfortunate accident due so someone else’s recklessness)
But, being the parent of an autistic child, I can’t fathom how this can be going on for 5 years, and after getting no resolution from the school they didn’t take him out and homeschool him, or put him in a private school, or change school districts. As a parent, it’s YOUR responsibility to protect your child, not the school district’s (well, they have some responsibility, of course, but ultimately the buck stops with the parents). I’m sorry, but you just don’t let this go on for this long, and then say, “Well, we told the school district, they didn’t do anything.” Okay, fine, they didn’t do anything. Now what? Now YOU do something about it. Protect your child. Put him in a learning environment where he can learn without this fear and anxiety, and without being beat up.
Report Post »rlmeals
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:27pmOh, and teach him to stand up for himself! I bet if he popped that bully back, he’d think twice about messing with him. Martial arts can build self-esteem and teach him how to defend himself.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:06pmMy son has autism. They don’t generalize. If I taught my son martial arts, he‘d kick his brother’s a$$. Most autistic kids are easy going (unless you set off their sensory issues, then they melt down). My son wouldn‘t tell me he was being abused because he didn’t want to get anyone in trouble. He can’t take one lesson learned and apply it to a similar situation. He has to be taught each and every situation. That‘s why he’ll never drive. I just couldn’t prepare him for every possibility.
Report Post »rlmeals
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:57pmI understand that, but not all autistic kids are the same. There are varying degrees of severity of the disorder. In this case, the parents obviously knew the kid was being bullied since 1st grade, so he obviously told them about it. Whether or not he is able to understand the difference in self-defense and fighting for the sake of fighting is something we can’t know, because we don’t know his situation. But I was merely making a suggestion regarding the attitude toward bullying and stating that teaching a kid to defend themselves is a good idea.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on January 24, 2012 at 6:53am@rlmeals
ok, missed the part where they knew about the bullying..must have read right over it. I can’t imagine a parent knowing about bullying and not doing something about it. My gifted child was bullied by girls (he’s been told not to hit a lady – I told him as soon as she hits you, she’s not a lady).
Report Post »rsanchez1
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:22pmWhere the hell are the parents? Is this what parents are teaching their kids nowadays? It’s just despicable.
Report Post »Balthazor
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:22pmLook at the parents, you know they’re probably just helpless liberal waifs wringing their hands and waiting for someone else to do something about this. Why isn’t anybody doing anything about our problem?
Report Post »FreedomOne
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:21pmIf that was my boy. I would take him off of the video games and do some outdoor sports and break him out of his shell. All in the meantime I would go find that kid who punched my boy in the face and rough him up backyard style, then go find his dad and show him the clip and then give him a five finger sandwich to the left side of his jaw and see how he likes it. That boy just seemed too sheltered and his parents are so timid its pathetic. I would of been up that schools a** in a heartbeat. Nobody does that type of stuff to my children.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:20pmOmg this child is precious and unbelieveablely well spoken .I think he is a victim of the nasty little foul mouthed kids and his own parents that send him off daily to a place that they know he is in danger of being assulted .God help him because he has nobody to protect him.The least his sorry parents could do is put him in self defence class…………………..
Report Post »Dougalug
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:13pmGive the kid a stun gun and watch the real payback begin!
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:20pmStun gun? How about a real gun? Too bad hes too young.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:21pmI wish it could turn out like the video from last year where the victim picked up the bully and slammed him on the concrete and walked away.
Report Post »bocajojo4
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:06pmAre these parents for real? They need to wake up!…..How alone that kid must feel…..this is really sad….
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:21pmThis kid is big and when he finally has enough, someone is gonna get hurt. I blame his pacifistic parents. I would be at the bus stop with my kid and silent. Once i identify the kids, I’m then talking to some parents. Bullying is a natural part of growing up but parents can’t sit around and expect school faculty to solve all their problems. Once these kids see their parents working together(setting an example with calm conversation, then laughing and becoming friends) to solve crap like this it takes the fun out of messing with the oddball kid.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:05pmWhen the mother said how long it has been happening and how she worries about him at school. My thought was really? There is no way I could send my child to school where I had to worry about him. He’d be homeschooled in a heart beat. Parents need to begin parenting and put their children and their needs in higher priority. This is not the way any child should grow up. These parents need to get off their arse and fight for their kid.
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:05pmThen the school board members
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:03pmKelly Keeton needs be beat herself.
Report Post »MarianF
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:03pmKids playing violent video games, watching increasingly violent movies and TV shows can not possibly add to the horrific increase in societal violence we are seeing, right?
Report Post »jcizarter
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:16pmActually is stems from leaving Almighty God, the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob out of the schools, homes, and your own life.
Report Post »HADEN0UGH
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:17pmChances are if the parent is allowing them to play violent video games and watching violent movies they are crappy parents anyway.
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:47pmBetter yet, how about not keeping your kid in a plastic bubble. Solve your own problems and be active in your kids life.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:00pmNah, kids always beat up other kids. They just didn’t have an internet to share it with the whole country. I got beat up a couple times, and I won a couple of fights. If every kid in the country was involved in five violent incidents that nobody but other kids saw over the course of a fifteen year school career, nobody would think that it was any big deal, but if everybody sees every beatdown that every kid in the country takes, it seems like a horrifying epidemic that is somehow the business of all of us whether we even have school age kids or not.
Report Post »hogtrashhd
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:02pmthis is terrible but his parents have allowed this to go on for six years and are just now trying to do something about this? come on.. there’s nothing wrong with this kid physically or mentally except what the parents have done to him so they could ssi or whatever they get.. while it looks like the mother is eating that money up by eating and eating.. I call bull sh$t on these parents..
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:19pmHOG, you are an idiot. You know nothing about the kid, yet you say theres nothing wrong with him. Amazing how you think you can make a medical diagnosis from a short video clip. Not all autistic kids are the same, there are different levels of autism. You really showed your ignorance with that comment.
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:00pmThat kid is not autistic.
Report Post »rlmeals
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:15pmI just wanted to respectfully disagree with your assessment. He could certainly be ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder) and not exhibit the commonly known autism traits. My son is ASD and many people can’t tell just pay observing him. Plus, after years of behavioral and speech therapy, he has calmed down to a point where meltdowns and episodes are few and far between. Our neurologist told us that kids like this typically learn to control their outbursts by around age 5, at least to the point where they are less severe and less frequent. Autism presents differently with different kids. Another kid in my son’s class presents with rocking back and forth, not very affectionate, and very little speech. My son had speech delay, no eye contact, but was very affectionate and didn’t have a whole lot of tics like many ASD kids do. Plus, I’m sure that by 6th grade, many of the classic autistic traits in a less severe case of ASD will be mostly managed and controlled.
I’m not trying to be rude, just explaining that you can’t tell by watching him on TV for a few minutes.
Report Post »Mommy_of_3
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:33pmHave you ever heard of Aspergers Syndrome? No? It is a highly functioning form of Autism but leaves the child socially awkward. I won’t go into the specifics because it would do you good to do some research on your own but please do not presume you know all the varying spectrums of such a drastically difficult disorder.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:10pmMy son is PDD-NOS Pervasive Developmental disorder, not otherwise specified (to be technical). He has learned to adapt so well, the school system said he was cured. As we know there is no cure for autism, and they aren’t psychiatrists, I ignored them. He still has melt-downs if things don’t go as he expected them to.
Report Post »melissablessed
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:00pmWhy, for goodness sake, haven’t these parents homeschooled him or put him in a private school? What kind of parents send their kid back to school after knowing he’s been bullied? Oh, the ones that like to portray themselves as victims while allowing their children to be victimized.
Report Post »HADEN0UGH
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:18pmSo instead of trying to get the bullying to stop you suggest they run and hide from the situation? Seriously?
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 2:09pmThe school hasn’t done anything for years and the parents continue to take it. Leaving the school system and homeschool isn’t running away from the problem, but putting your child first and making sure that he is not abused at school is a parents responsibility. They are not doing that when they sit back and let it happen over and over again. Sue the system if you need to, but do something.
Report Post »NITERUNNER
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:21pmThere‘s a definate problem with you’r theory. I, being the man I am,would confront the bully’s dad,and inform him that whatever his son dishes out on my child,I would inflict upon him..See how fast the bullying stops..
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 7:39pmThis is one of life’s lessons. Act like a victim, and you become a victim, forever. No one can protect you, forever. I’ve worked with many autisic kids across the spectrum. They can follow, and adhere well to rules. Make the rule be, if someone hits you, you hit them back, and teach them to throw a punch. It is a good rule for all kids who might get picked on. I was picked on as a kid until I began to stand up for myself, then the bullies went looking elsewhere for someone “easy” to pick on. School policies create bullies.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 8:08pmWhy should they? Their kid has as much of a right to a public education as every other kid in the state. Maybe they don’t want to home school because they realize that they don’t know everything, and they want to give their kids a chance to be smarter than they are. Maybe they can’t afford a private school. If the kid is really autistic, they’re may already paying for expensive private therapy and tutoring in addition to the time he spends in school. Anyway, do you know how private schools maintain their reputation for being better than public schools? It’s easy, they throw out anybody they can’t teach.
Report Post »satanicmechanic
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:58pmI cant imagine how these parents are doing. I would lose my freaking mind and probably find that kid and do some beating myself.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:57pm.
Report Post »The Parents of the Bully Kid need to spend some time in Jail……..
mils
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 4:52pmagreed…
Report Post ».how about dad turned out in general population, naked… that appears to be one of my fav punishments for fools.. like the parents of this autistic child.
jungle J
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 12:56pmthey do not belong among regular children…they need to be protected.
Report Post »Mommy_of_3
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 1:41pm“they do not belong among regular children”
Why? Because they’re “different”? Protecting these children does not mean sheltering them from everything. Besides, that isn’t even possible. The parents should be far more active in their children’s protection and the school should have done more. If he was my child, I would be so far up the school’s behind (as well as the bully’s parents) there wouldn’t be any further incidents!
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on January 23, 2012 at 3:49pmWe never picked on special ed kids. Our school had, and still has, one of the best programs for special education kids. It was a part of our school and most everyone tried to help in any way they could. And woe to those who picked on them or bullied them.
I feel so sorry for Kaleb. Nothing like that wold have happened to him in our school back in the old days. Not in a million years.
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