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a 13-year-old autistic student at Melcher
Dallas high school in iowa has been severely believe he's been punched
teased and his condition has been mocked on online videos
by his students his name is only by Nole
and local %uh news actually spoke to him and his mother about it
and they showed a few examples of him getting bullied well it turns out that
the parents of the alleged bully yours are bullies I should say
are totally making excuses for their children saying that this autistic boy
totally deserved it let me give you a few examples I'll
one parent says I would say 3-4 so this stuff
that he brings on himself and probably afford a bit is bullying that should be
going on
okay well he did assessment there you do the math
reports is okay 1/4 so OK
to look at your parents and you don't know that the other kids artistic
and you hear stories about how that kid reacted so my you might get upset
writing you might say you know what you bought back a I get it right here
your kid but if we know the kids artistic
economy better than that and you can see
hit autistic kid had it coming up will you kiss and say hey listen he's got
this
issue in n you know you can't be reacting the way that you are
cuz he's not making the you know a conscious decision
to do things that he's doing you know its
please did some decency common sense and cetera
you can't do this but that's a problem that and that's why you have some the
boys the yeah because you have some the parents that yeah
exactly I am the principle seems to be making excuses for the boeing is well in
fact
Josh Elm says you know it's really up to the students to check themselves when it
comes to this issue
we try our best to educate our staff to educate our students to react to the
cases
to investigate the cases we have but ultimately it's got to come down to the
kids to take
ownership for this and to stand up for the kids who can stand up for themselves
how about administrators do their job
and if they see it some real bowling going on to the point where
they're mocking this kid's condition online
you regulate you go in there and say no this type of activity or the seven
behavior is not allowed to happen
you're going to be suspended or expelled or whatever it is
partner problem with bullying is a lot of times the administrators don't do
anything they don't want to get in trouble that's what it's really about
in look oftentimes I have some sympathy because I think well
you know it's tough to see it on the spot every time in regulating in the
middle of a fight between kids in your area right
another hand if you're an administrator at a school the sky your job right
n but in this case is not that hard because it's online
this video you already know it so you pull the people who did
of the video put them in and have some rubber crashes for that
and especially as a princely your job is not to protect
the strongest people in your school it's a protect those who need the protection
the most
right and two to say hey there Can on their own
acid huge application a responsibility in your court duty
one more statement from a parent he called my nephew and nasty name and my
nephew
Cole be Jamie meant to say choked
at Choate in Iraq themselves sometimes they say called *** when they're
talking about punching all really
yeah but it says the sex thing so it's choked
well well-meaning made a mistake *** but they left that cold
or that's not the way it's spelled I don't yet okay in the mouth I'm proud of
my nephew for doing that I don't think it
she meant to say *** in the back of the head
think okay big yeah I hear you I hear you that does sound a little strange
and I hope that's not what actually happened and yet
and look again if you don't know the kids artistic in your proud to be your
kid fought back Inc oxo one in the mouth okay
rip any who paid but you know the kids artistic is not something to be proud of
that he you'd be your kid hit up get just
please for christ sake man every day we as people on this jury
show some common sense and decency and every day who come by with a difference
story where be refused to do so