SPENCER, Mass. (FOX25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A local school asked students to rank the bullies in their school and then used that list to determine which students would be punished.
Students at The Wire Village School in Spencer were asked to rank students they thought were bullies in a survey distributed by the school at the request of the principal.
Mother Danielle Gebo said she recieved a call from the school unexpectedly saying her son was "ranked" as one of the top bullies at school. She says the school should have followed up claims with an investigation into allegations made by a class of sixth graders before taking disciplinary action.
Parent Of Pupil On "Bully List" Feels Her Son Was Bullied By The School
SPENCER — The mother of an 11-year-old student at Wire Village School said an effort to target bullying there has her feeling her son is being bullied by school officials.
Danielle L. Gebo said she was surprised to hear from the school principal Monday that her son, Thomas J. Gebo, a sixth-grader, ranked in the top six students known for bullying classmates, and that he would be punished because other students had voted for him in a bullying survey conducted in his grade.
“I was told that on Tuesday he would have to report to the cafeteria with the others who met the criteria,” she said. Thomas was kept inside at recess and closely monitored until his mother contacted School Superintendent Ralph E. Hicks, who was unaware of the situation and went to the school, which serves students in Grades 4, 5 and 6, to put an end to the punishment...
[Webmaster - The subject of "bullying" is used to train and develop "spykid" snitches, who will someday be adult snitches. George Orwell talks about this in "1984".]
