Our son has epilepsy and was bullied by teachers .

[wendy cruz]

Please catch our sons story on channel 12 news (kpnx) in the phoenix area) with investigative reporter wendy halloran tonight (21feb) at 10pm. My son needs everyones support.

[Kari Lynne Brauer]

For those us who are not able to do that, what happened to your son? Let me rephrase that. How did the teachers go about bullying your son?

[wendy cruz]

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?v=240526216034928

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Basically.  Due to his type of seizures: Partial complex frontal lobe, he has the humming, starring, off task etc... Behaviors that come along with the seizures that he has.  The teachers, swear he had a behavior problem and classified him as such.  We had two behavioral eval done both came back in our favor and supporting his seizure disorder and medications as the reasons for his behaviors (above), but the school failed to agree.  We even had a neuropsychological assessment done which took four hours and the same results.  He had an IEP in place, and I even sent material from the epilepsy foundation for the teachers to utilize and still the ignoring by teachers kept on.  Finally my son would call me and put me in his "pocket" via his cell phone during the day, and what i heard shook me to the core.  Teachers telling him to "shut his mouth", not answering his questions, not guiding his studies, and even threatening to smack him took place.  we confronted the school and recorded every meeting.  They never denied one thing.  We even heard them ripping headphones from his ears.  as soon as the news airs tonight i will update everyone with a link to watch it and then comment if you feel the need. 

[Lrjg]

Wendy, I want to cry for him!  Oh my gosh! I got the chills picturing what they have done to your son.  All I can say is "burn them in court!"  Sometimes this is the only way for white collared people in the school system to wake up!  It has been many years now, before my seizure problem, I taught SEH (severe emotional handicapped) children, and also severely mentally handicapped.  If I could handle these children, anyone should be able to handle it in a regular classroom.  If they don't have the patience for it, they shouldn't be paid teaching!  The majority of my family live in your area.  I wish I was there to see it on the news.  Is your son still in that classroom?  I know that would be hard.  It reminds me of something that happened many years ago with my son.  He is 23 years old, out of college now, but when he was in the second grade he was physically abused by his rotten teacher.  It was on the last day of school and the children went outside to have some fun in the park.  They set up races for the classrooms.  They had a simple running race where all the students in each class had to run down to a cone, circle it and run back.  They would touch the hand of the next runner.  Anyway, my son did this race and forgot to tag the next runners hand.  He went to the end of the line like they were suppose to do.  The teacher came up to him and grabbed onto the top of his shirt and started shaking him and pushed him down backward.  This was a women teacher about 60 years old!  I saw all this happen from a distance with other parents who were invited to come watch.  I was shaken up by what I saw so bad that it was so hard for me to even walk to the school to report what I saw to the principal.  I kept from crying, but my voice was so shaky that I had a hard time speaking.  This principal was visibly shaken herself from what I told her.  The teacher was gone from teaching in this school system immediately.  I really do not know if what happened with my son was the reason, but I was told it was.  I have seen her around (15 years later) and feel like I need to be restrained from hitting her still!   The school system that my children are all graduated now from, is ranked high in the nation for academics.  They also have zero tolerance for bullying in any way.  Take this as far as you can!  Remember, if it goes on with no punishment to the idiot teachers, they will do it again!  Laura    Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that my sons class had won that race!:)

[wendy cruz]

Wow Laura,

That is so touching.  We felt so alone.  I am so sorry to hear this I am sure it was a tough thing to watch and experience. how is your son now? any lasting impressions from this day? Please have your family and friends who can watch do so, please.  also, after tonight i will have a link to go to so that you can watch it.  you can also comment and even email comments to the reporter.  This is such a taboo subject since most lawyers will not take this case. we have tried we have spoken to hundreds of them and not one will take the case.  The say to try a lawyer specializing in education, but all of the ones we can find say it is a conflict of interest although we have a case.. go figure. our time for filling an intent is about to be up.  this is frustrating. so many other detials in this story... police reports, they even barricaded him in the nurses office upon him leaving the restroom.  while i was on the phone with him (in his pocket) and then chased him through the school trying to get him upset to throw blame back on him...  we are just so upset and frustrated... I feel like i could go completly crazy if i had the chance. they should all be sent to an island and be abused right back with no one to hear their crys.  then maybe just maybe they would understand... doubtful, but maybe... the school has told the news reporter wendy halloran, no comment..... really?  if you are innocent than why not defend yourself?  It was very difficult to sit there at work and listen to my son (me in his pocket) be harrassed.. i wanted to come through the phone but had to be smart about it.  and our son was oh so brave..... it is crazy that this even happened not only to our son but others and that it still effects everyone involved for years to come. our son is just not the same little boy. he is frightened, and wears a hat to the new school to hide himself from this happening again. i just can't believe this.i am happy that you had a zero tolerance school that helped. we put put children in a charter school and other than the kids being mean the staff has been great so far.  we need justice in any way and this story airing hopefully will do just that...  keep in touch please.

Thank you for sharing...

 

Lrjg said:

Wendy, I want to cry for him!  Oh my gosh! I got the chills picturing what they have done to your son.  All I can say is "burn them in court!"  Sometimes this is the only way for white collared people in the school system to wake up!  It has been many years now, before my seizure problem, I taught SEH (severe emotional handicapped) children, and also severely mentally handicapped.  If I could handle these children, anyone should be able to handle it in a regular classroom.  If they don't have the patience for it, they shouldn't be paid teaching!  The majority of my family live in your area.  I wish I was there to see it on the news.  Is your son still in that classroom?  I know that would be hard.  It reminds me of something that happened many years ago with my son.  He is 23 years old, out of college now, but when he was in the second grade he was physically abused by his rotten teacher.  It was on the last day of school and the children went outside to have some fun in the park.  They set up races for the classrooms.  They had a simple running race where all the students in each class had to run down to a cone, circle it and run back.  They would touch the hand of the next runner.  Anyway, my son did this race and forgot to tag the next runners hand.  He went to the end of the line like they were suppose to do.  The teacher came up to him and grabbed onto the top of his shirt and started shaking him and pushed him down backward.  This was a women teacher about 60 years old!  I saw all this happen from a distance with other parents who were invited to come watch.  I was shaken up by what I saw so bad that it was so hard for me to even walk to the school to report what I saw to the principal.  I kept from crying, but my voice was so shaky that I had a hard time speaking.  This principal was visibly shaken herself from what I told her.  The teacher was gone from teaching in this school system immediately.  I really do not know if what happened with my son was the reason, but I was told it was.  I have seen her around (15 years later) and feel like I need to be restrained from hitting her still!   The school system that my children are all graduated now from, is ranked high in the nation for academics.  They also have zero tolerance for bullying in any way.  Take this as far as you can!  Remember, if it goes on with no punishment to the idiot teachers, they will do it again!  Laura    Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that my sons class had won that race!:)

[JMO]

I'm so sorry your son had to endure this. There is no excuse. Even if he had a behavioral issue that doesn't make it acceptable for teachers to belittle or abuse- physically or verbally- a student. 
Nothing can take these experiences away but I hope this prohibits it from happening again. 
Good luck. 

[wendy cruz]

Thank you so much, your words help more than you will ever know.





JMO said:

I'm so sorry your son had to endure this. There is no excuse. Even if he had a behavioral issue that doesn't make it acceptable for teachers to belittle or abuse- physically or verbally- a student. 
Nothing can take these experiences away but I hope this prohibits it from happening again. 
Good luck. 

[Richard A. Smith]

Wend:

Im sorry to hear of the ignorance that is in our school systems and all around but not all are like that but what is scary thats a teacher and it votes (YIKES) and has little ones that learn from that behavior.

good luck.

[Kari Lynne Brauer]

Wendy,

As Laura said, I want to cry out for him as well! What an awful situation!

One of my daughters experienced a similar experience also. She used to love basketball, she lived basketball. One day in Junior high a new girl came into school. She was not very well kept, but a wonderful personality. My daughter had her in some of her classes. It was basketball season, her team was doing well, then the teammates noticed she was hanging around this very unkept girl. She chose to to befriend this girl over her teammates after trying to reason with them. Needles to say they made life hard for her. The following basketball season in high school  one of the Junior high teachers was the girls basketball coach. She knew of my daughters' incident from last year, so the coach carried it over. She started verbally harassing my daughter, benching, she had a terrible foul mouth, her dress code was unacceptable for a professional. Huge anger issues. She was eventually  fired and had mandatory anger management classes. She came back as a coach, but the older kids will not play for her any more.

    We all behind you and your family, Wendy, 100% of the way! Going public is a great idea! Our prayers and thoughts are with you!

[Lrjg]

I was just thinking about this problem getting into the news.  Maybe this is a good thing for the emotions of your son.  If he knows that it made the news because the teachers were so bad and not him, it won't affect his emotions in the future.  Just let him know he is the "big man" and describe the teachers as the peons in life. 

[wendy cruz]

http://www.azcentral.com/video/#/Disabled+Surprise+student+accuses+teachers+and+staff+of+bullying+him/1465317035001 Yes, we thought so too. here is the link..

Please watch then leave send comments to [e-mail] (the investigatoive reporter who did the story, Wendy Halloran).

 

I also have a blog with more of our story at http://www.azcentral.com/members/Blog/wendywee/155751

this is just so terrible. i cannot believe that the system allows this... i emailed hundreds of emails to the school copying the superintendant every time. even when my son was barricaded in the nusres (on the nes clip) i sent an email to the principle asking why they were doing this.  I was on his phone in his pocket listening.... thank you for commenting back so often everyone. it really helps with this. i feel for all of your's story's and feel better knowing that we are not alone...

[Kari Lynne Brauer]

Wendy,

The [e-mail] email would not go through said something about no such address. The e mail was returned to me. I wish you the best on this issue Wendy, your family is in our prayers!

[wendy cruz]

You try .com after it?
Thank you for trying. It means a lot to us.



Kari Lynne Brauer said:

Wendy,

The [e-mail] email would not go through said something about no such address. The e mail was returned to me. I wish you the best on this issue Wendy, your family is in our prayers!