Here's what happened.
This will probably be long.
Remember back to the beginning of school...he had these 2 boys in class bullying him. Well, we THOUGHT that was taken care of. They got in trouble...one boy was moved from the school, the other boy was supposed to be moved across the room from Jon and was to not have "access" to him.
Well, a few weeks ago things started again...now Jon tells me he's been putting up with it all year but was too afraid to say anything.
This boy was choking Jon. Hitting him. Verbally abusing him.
Jon came home one day a few weeks ago and told me what was happening. I asked if he told the teacher...and basically, no he didn't...but he implied that the student was being corrected because the teacher caught this student in the act.
Jon comes home the NEXT day...same story. Jon again says the teacher corrected the student.
Jon comes home the NEXT day...same story. This time I call the teach. She states that she didn't know this student was laying hands on Jon. When she "corrected" him in class, it was for him being up and out of his seat...not for doing anything to Jon. And Jon had never told her what was happening.
Teach immediately goes to the principal. The student is reprimanded...placed in ISS, and the parents are called in.
The student then lays low for a few days...even being a little nice to Jon. Jon said at the time he thought this boy was going to be his "friend". My boy is too trusting.
I got a call from the principal during this time assuring me that this student had been reprimanded and that the situation was handled. This was when I spoke to you guys about it last week.
Fast forward to yesterday, Jon comes home and shows me his stomach. This boy has punched him in the stomach at lunch and has put a bruise on him. I immediately called the principal...and told him what had happened. Jon didn't tell at school because he was scared. The principal assured me things would be handled today...Jon would be called down and things would be handled. Jon and I had a loooong talk about the importance of speaking up for himself...which he doesn't do. That's part of Jon...he doesn't give himself a voice.
We wrote a statement together about yesterday's events and sent it to school today.
Now...here's where it gets dicey.
I pull up outside of Jon's school to pick him up and I get a phone call from the counselor in the school. She says that there was another incident today...and the student told Jon he wanted to kill him and that he was choked. She assured me Jon was fine. I asked if I should come in, and was told that everything had been handled.
(Apparently, in 6th period, this kid cornered Jon in class and choked him and told him to die. Jon had NOT been called down to the office as promised.)
All of a sudden, Jon is coming out of the school with a teacher. And he has marks on his neck...from this child choking him. Scratches and a bruise.
And I am FUMING.
The teacher says that the police are there...and that they have already taken Jon's statement.
WHAT????
Taken my kid's statement? If it's that serious, why wasn't I called???
And I went OFF.
We go inside...and the police are there...along with the child, the principals, and some other children. Once I show up, they apparently knew it was business, and they call the other parents.
All of the children gave statements without their parents.
No parents were called.
All of the parents had to fill out paperwork for charges to be filed against this child.
2 of the other children that had been attacked have Down Syndrome. This kid is just sick.
I left after we finished filling out paperwork...but as the night has gone on...I'm more and more and more pissed.
Why was Jon required to give a statement without me there? Why wasn't I called? If it's this serious...why wasn't I called? Why wasn't Jon called down to the office first thing this morning after the incident yesterday? Instead...this kid was allowed to put hands on my kid AGAIN...and I was called as an afterthought after it was all over??? No WAY!
I'm pissed. And I don't know what I should do.
This kid was arrested...but because he's only 12...he was not taken to jail. I don't want him back in the school. What should I do????
