A ninth-grade student in Cincinnati, Ohio, had only been enrolled in Shroder High School for a little over a week before he was beaten unconscious by a few of his new classmates.
The family says the bullies committed “felonious assault” when they jumped him because he did not let them copy his notes.
The teen’s uncle said the act of violence was “completely unacceptable.”
The district noted at a board meeting the five students who beat up the boy have been either suspended or expelled for the incident.
According to his family, the teens had a biology assignment due on March 15, but some were unprepared. When they asked the victim if they could get the answers from his paper, he told them no, WKRC reports.
The victim’s mother Tamara Lanier said when she spoke to the school’s nurse, she told her that the teens picked on her son before because of a “pencil.”
The school states staffers and school security intervened to stop the fight. But not soon enough to prevent the child from requiring medical assistance.
Police and medical professionals were called to the school to assist the victim, taking him to a local hospital.
The Cincinnati Public Schools (CPS) hosted a meeting for its board members and the boy’s family to discuss the altercation.
At the meeting, Lanier said she was “appalled,” adding, “My heart is broken,” as she addressed the assembly.
The Pleasant Ridge resident pushed the school to consider that there may have been people on campus that did not belong there.
The board assured her it was reviewing surveillance footage and checking out the hallway where the boy was attacked. Monitoring the flow of the class release traffic, they believe, will give them a clearer picture of what happened to Lanier’s son.
The teen’s uncle, Derrick Kearney, expressed how disturbed he is regarding the attack. “This is completely unacceptable,” Kearney said.
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