Comments on: Suit Alleges School Failed To Address Bullying Of Student With Autism

By: NVAdvocate

NVAdvocate — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:45:55 +0000

For anyone who is looking to stop bullying, filing complaints with the federal Office for Civil Rights for your region is a good choice. First, document any incident or a number of incidents. Wait to see what the school district does, usually nothing, and if that’s the case, you file a complaint now not only based on the lack of action, but on failure to have an appropriate policy in place to prevent harassment on the basis of disability. OCR has great model policies and will often come in and require schools to change the way they are doing business. It’s still not a sure fire stop, but it make a difference over the long haul and you can never tell when the hundred drops of water in the bucket are finally going to tip it over and cause change.

By: mikep52

mikep52 — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:01:10 +0000

Well my son is a Senior in High School now and he has been bullied, beaten, spit on, verbally abused since middle school. He is high functioning Autistic. The school system always blames him and his actions rather than do something to the bullies. It is easier to deal with one child than the many that do the abusing. He was even accused of having a hit list after the Virgina Tech shootings. Our life was hell for 2 weeks. Of course it was proven that he did not and did nothing to provoke the accusations. We never even got an apology from the school.

By: nomorebullying

nomorebullying — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:09:33 +0000

The boy who put Missy Jenkins in a wheelchair was bullied every day. Her story is already required reading in some schools. The bullying must stop, and her book is one way to help that happen.