FAIRFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Mother and father are as soon as once more demanding Fairfield Metropolis Faculties discover a complete resolution for bullying throughout the district after Jennifer Mangat introduced on social media that her Creekside Center College pupil, Braylon Kline, suffered a fractured vertebra in his neck in an altercation with one other pupil throughout health club class Tuesday.
Braylon mentioned he had angered one other pupil by throwing a dodgeball at him throughout an unstructured play interval, and the scholar shoved him right into a wall.
“I handed out for a bit, after which some pals helped me up,” he mentioned.
He approached substitute trainer Jason Evans who agreed to let him see the varsity nurse.
Mangat mentioned a go to to Cincinnati Kids’s Hospital indicated he’d fractured the T1 vertebrae in his neck, and he reduce and bruised his again.
“He went like that and pushed me laborious into the wall. As a substitute of going nostril first, I went head first. I circled, and my again slammed right into a steel chair as I went right down to the ground,” Braylon mentioned.
Mangat mentioned her son and his twin brother have been continually bullied throughout their three years at Creekside Center College, and claims Braylon was bullied for sporting a neck brace upon returning to high school Wednesday.
“Issues maintain occurring and occurring, and it is precipitated this damage, and it may possibly’t be reversed,” she mentioned.
A consultant of the Fairfield Metropolis College District mentioned they could not touch upon particular self-discipline points throughout the faculty, however issued a press release saying the varsity district takes each allegation of bullying severely.
“In regard to how the district responds to bullying, bullying habits by any pupil/faculty personnel is strictly prohibited in our college district. Consequently, any bullying allegation introduced ahead is taken severely and investigated. As a district, we proceed to reap the benefits of alternatives to coach our college students about harassment and bullying in an try to cut back or remove unacceptable and or dangerous behaviors,” the assertion learn, partly.
The substitute, Evans, mentioned he’d been terminated by the district and accepted accountability for the accidents Braylon suffered.
“It was underneath my supervision. I’ve to be held accountable, and I settle for that. It is honest,” he mentioned.
Evans joined Braylon’s dad and mom in calling for the district to do extra to forestall bullying as an entire, nevertheless, saying he was bullied himself when he rose by means of the Fairfield College District.
He additionally mentioned he was classmates with Emilie Olsen, whose household mentioned bullying led to her 2014 suicide.
“It is simply an ongoing downside that, it is like everybody is aware of about, however nobody needs to speak about,” Evans mentioned.
Evans agreed to an interview with the hope that elevated transparency throughout the district would assist result in a discount in bullying throughout the district.
Braylon’s step-dad Matthew Stubbs known as for the district to discover a resolution to the issue earlier than one thing even worse occurs to his son or others.
“If it would not get addressed, an increasing number of children are going to get greater than harm,” Stubbs mentioned. “I hate to say it that means, however extra dad and mom are going to be burying their children.”
Fairfield Metropolis College District urged dad and mom who consider their children have been bullied to fill out and file the bullying report kind discovered on the district’s web site.
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