Quote From: laney4funThis is the letter that my son wrote to the President about the School in North Dakota. . He has never heard anything back yet. He hopes to someday. As you see We can not seem to put it behind us when we are living in it so much. It has affected my oldest son so much that he went from being a staight A student all his life that now as a Junior in High School he has D's for the first time ever. He wants to go to College and we can not afford. All of this because of a School And a town of people that do not like outsiders. But my husband seems to love it there. This has runed my marriage. He has changed since moving there. Before living there it was always the family us against the world. Now I have kids getting sick because they are afraid of there teachers they can not talk to there teachers, I am broke because I am trying to make it on my own and I am diabled because of a back injury, I hurt I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. Some days I just wish I could give up. But I knwo if I did my kids would be alone or worse left with only their Dad. And stuck in ND.
Dear Mr. President,
I want to tell you about the Burke Central School here in North Dakota. At first I was really excited to move here. Then I found out what it is like here for new kids. New kids basically get tortured.
My brother was bullied by a 17 year old; all the school did was talk to him. It is not fair when only kids that have been here a long time get away with something and the new kids get hurt. My mom tried to do something about it and they would not listen.
My mom tried to start a PTA but the school did not what her to and the next day my brother got detention just for farting. Even when he said excuse me, and he opened the window.
My mom was talking to the school board about bullies and what needed to be done. We needed to make it where if someone was bullied the kids would get detention at least. The parents needed to all get together and all talk about it. Somebody called Social Services on us and that day Mom got the phone call. Mom and I cried. Social Services did not do anything it just was scary to know someone called them on us. There was no abuse or neglect according to social services. That day I did not leave the house.
One day I was playing with a kid at school, at morning recess and I fell off the bleacher and I hurt my hand. I asked the teacher if she would call my Mom, or if I could call my Mom. I asked lots of times. I got home on the bus at 4 PM. I yelled at my Mom why didnt you come and pick me up? And then she told me she did not receive a phone call from the school. I didnt feel well. We went to the Doctors to get it checked. We found out it was broken but the bone was still in place. It was to swollen so they put on a brace.
That was the final straw; my Mom said we were going to move to Kansas to go to school. One that cares about its students. I yelled Hurray!
I liked my school in New York very much! I wish I had a time machine to make it so only my Dad moved to North Dakota. My brothers have gone to a lot of different schools before and never had any troubles before. We are not the only people having trouble here,this place needs help. Please Mr. President help the new kids in the Lignite school. I know they are not safe.
Sincerely
********** 8yrs old
wow i remember this post from a while back, am i to understand you are still having this problem? if so pack up your son and other children if you have more and move to Georgia, our system deals with bullies with the firm hand of the law, Georgia's school system really does a great job at keeping the school a safe and wonderful place in a good environment for our children to learn in, hahahah most children would say it suxs but we know most teens would rather sleep late and let the school work around there schedule, if your schools are not safe you owe it to your children to move to a safer enviorment for them to live and learn.
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