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Administrators at a high school in Georgia suspended a student for two days because she didn’t report that she was being bullied, the teenage girl claims.
Essance McDougald says she was locked in a bathroom and and nearly beaten up by two older girls at Lithonia High School three weeks ago.
When she reported the bullying to her a school counselor in a three-page letter, the assistant principal threatened her with a two-week suspension if the altercation with the girls continued, Miss McDougald says.
But the bullying started again, she says, so she asked her grandmother to step in and report it to the school, WSBTV in Atlanta reported.
That’s when the principal gave her a two-day suspension for not reporting it herself, Miss McDougald claims.
But the district says Miss McDougald isn’t so much the victim of bullying as she is a mutual combatant in an ongoing fight with another girl.
The district said administrators are using mediation with the two to defuse the conflict, according to a statement given to the TV station.
Miss McDougald and her grandmother, though, claim the high school student has been threatened.
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Corey Mondello
March 16, 2012 at 9:59 pm
just another reason for those who are bullied to bring guns to school and take matters into their own hands….as if we havent been seeing that for decades now. Wish I had access to a gun when I was in school. The world would be a better place with less bullies.
PJ
March 15, 2012 at 10:55 pm
This bullying has to stop. My grandson is a very tiny 10 year old and he gets bullied at school and nothing seems to work. He tells his teacher and she just brushes it off, but my daughter has stepped in and brought it to the attention of the assistant principal and the principal to do something or else she will handle it herself. The bully was suspended from school the rest of the school year, while on the other hand his little friends tried to pick up from where he left off. I hold heartily hold parents responsible for these children behavior. I knew when we were growing up a good spanking worked all the time, but now they say when you spank your child, they call that abuse, but I call it getting their attention to let them know that this will not be tolerated. If you want to repeal some law, why not repeal the one where they are telling you not to spank your children. I have heard so many stories of children killing themselves because of being bullied because no one would listen and no one seem to care. This is what happens with the kids getting guns killing other kids, because this one kid bullied them and they will hold everyone else responsible for what has happen to them.
We need to open our eyes and stop saying, “My child didn’t do that”. You are not with your children 24-7, and what ever went on between those girls that principle has a responsibility to get to the bottom of it before it get’s out of hand and someone is killed. Putting her out of school was not the answer. My mother never believed in suspension from school, because that was an easy way out. Your suspension with her was cleaning the school library and fixing the books on the shelves and read some while you were there. You did not stay home and sleep or do nothing, your punishment was educational.
Fortitude4me!
March 6, 2012 at 3:12 am
Yes, I figured you were an adult, as am I.
Ced
March 6, 2012 at 3:08 am
Oh, I did not make clear in my previous posting, that I am an adult now and this was a childhood experience.
Let me add that sometimes a parent of a bully can be so aggressive or threatening, that a teacher may be intimidated.
One time, a teacher saw a fight begin in our classroom, saw who was the instigator and who was the defender. When it ended, she chastised the one defending himself and sent both to the office. The students shouted out that the one defending himself wasn’t the one who started it. She told us to be quiet and that she saw the whole thing.
The teacher had met the instigator’s mother several times before regarding his fighting. The teacher apparently afraid of her, because she gave an account of the fight as if the innocent boy who defended himself had been the bully and that the bully had been the victim. The parent left satisfied, the bully returned to school the day after the meeting, but the other boy was suspended.
My classmates and I were astonished at what happened. Even the bully made some comment that indicated that he was little puzzled that he was in school and the boy he tried to pick on was not.
Joseph Allen
March 6, 2012 at 3:05 am
No, the pricipal was wrong in suspending this young lady from school for not reporting that she was being bullied. I fit had been a white girl being bullied, not only would she not have ben suspsended but she would have been on the tv talking about how she was traumetized and sued the distict.
Ced
March 6, 2012 at 2:35 am
One day, I was walking to my elementary school after it had snowed the night before. I stepped upon what I thought was snow covering the sidewalk, but there was a patch of ice underneath. I was carrying books in one arm and a case with a clarinet in the other, so I was carefully trying to balance myself.
At that moment, two boys I did not know came at me and demanded that I give them the clarinet. I refused, but if we had started fighting I would have slipped easily at the slightest push.
A friend of mine, Michael, who sat next to me in class, saw what was happening and rushed over to confront the two boys. As one of the boys was raising his arm as if he was preparing to hit me,
Michael stepped in front of him and pushed him or punched him. He fought both of them for only about a minute before they backed off. They left, then he helped me across the ice.
We went to class and sat down. The teacher asked the class whether we knew any heroes. I raised my hand and told her what happened that morning. She asked who started the fight? I said they did. She said who threw the first punch? I said Michael did, but if he hadn’t I would have been punched to the ground.
The teacher did not care about the circumstances. He was in a fight on the way to school and that was that. He was suspended for three days, but his parents transferred him to another school afterward.
Over the years, there were quite a few times that the persons defending themselves from bullies were the ones who were suspended. I am think of it when I see a basketball game where one player throws a punch, but the referee only sees the player who punches back or when the referee doesn’t know who started it, so calls a technical foul on each player.
Fortitude4me!
March 6, 2012 at 1:19 am
This reminds me of the time at Clinton Place Jr High in Newark, New Jersey when I was jumped by Simmons and her crew, and I defended myself, I WAS suspended. What was I supposed to do, let three girls beat the c**p out of me. De It still boggles the mind.
BigBlackRod
March 6, 2012 at 12:08 am
What the p***k is wrong with this principal? Does not he have enough discernment to be able to tell that this girl does not need to be further victimized? PEACE.
New Day
March 5, 2012 at 10:15 am
What in world am I reading. She gets suspended because she didn’t personally report it?? Thank goodness she said anything at all. This principal needs to be suspended, better yet fired! She is a waste of space in her position.
LOUIS MURPHY
March 2, 2012 at 9:13 am
Already being bread at home to be passive, and be pushed around. Then to add insult to injury suspended from school for not reporting that she was bullied for some reason when I saw the headlines. I knew this B.S. had to be in a southern state ha! Georgia. That’s what they call now, The New South, Another Sad Southern State of Affairs.