Jim says: If everything that is reported here is accurate as stated, this is a most discouraging development.
Vanessa Says: Jim, I have a six-year old daughter and up until this summer, she was in MPS system. She was constantly being bullied and then had her life threatened by another one of her classmates. "Dear Antonia, tomorrow when I come to school, I will beat you, then you will die." He told her it was a death note. She came home everyday and told myself and her father what was happening. We called the school, Lucy Laney, and discussed the matter with the Vice Principal who was to call us back. He never did, then I called the Principal, who stated she would get to the matter of the situation. Meanwhile, we told our daughter that if this happens again, go immediately and tell the teacher. Sure enough, the little rascal kicked my daughter in her knee forcing her to fall down, and hurt herself. She went to her teacher as she had been instructed to do, the response of the teacher, was: " Just run and hide, if he comes near you." I called the principal back and told her of this situation, she stated to me that she knew this teacher for a long time, and highly doubted this teacher had told my daughter to run and hide. As long as my daughter has been in school, she had never lied, nor had the reason to, people from her former teachers, to her Sunday school teachers, were very troubled at the fact of her being called a liar. To know my daughter is to love her. We have taught her well and have taught her to always tell an adult when something is happening. It is because of this that she has been taken out of one of the most corrupted schools systems ever. Currently, she has been accepted into Minnehaha Academy. Further, I had sued a school due to their use of corporal punishment of my son, who is now 22. He was beaten, abused, and dropped off on the South-side of Minneapolis, made to walk back to the North-side, as a joke, in the dead of winter, mind you. My son came home with bruising daily, he was beaten until his legs were black and blue; The school proceeded to tell me everyday that my son had problems and was in fights, and this is how he got his bruising. I found out by another student coming home with my son, and having my son show me the latest of his bruising which were ligature marks around his neck. The young man then told me how they got there, by an adult male staff, grabbing my son around his throat and while my son fought for air, this man held on even tighter dragging my son down a hallway into a bathroom, where the abuse continued. I flipped out first, and wanted to make the teachers and staff suffered the way my son did, however, I soon came to my senses and took photos and hired an attorney. The school is out of business based on this law-suit, and due to the settlement in the case, cannot not name the school. Having said all this to say, that many times such devastating actions does not make the news each and every time. Just imagine all those young people that are still being abused, and mistreated that go without any kind of closures, or help. Probably to many to count. Our only security is our ability to change. - John Lilly Peace-Peace, Vanessa I. Freeman Hawthorne REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
