Seventh grader was punched, kicked and shoved ... but DOE slow to find student a new school
Saturday, June 19th 2010, 4:00 AM
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Bronx student Kimquan Green, 14, has been bullied and beaten at Middle School 142.All he wants is a new school.
A Bronx seventh-grader with special needs is desperate to leave Middle School 142 after having his glasses broken 16 times and enduring a beatdown that sent him to the hospital, his mother charges.
Two of the teens who hit, punched, shoved and kicked Kimquan Green, 14, on June 1 were arrested and have been suspended, but the boy still doesn't want to stay at the school.
"He's scared. He doesn't like to fight," said his mom, Roberta Green, 70. "The school is just no good. I can't send my children there."
Green requested to have her son moved to a different school under a safety transfer after her son was assaulted. School regulations say parents must be notified of their child's new school within 10 days of the school learning of a violent attack.
"I just want to get out of that school because it's not even safe," said Kimquan, who says he returned to school the day after the attack and was threatened by half a dozen kids who appeared at the door of his English class.
The Department of Education vigorously defended its response to Kimquan's case. Spokeswoman Marge Feinberg said Green informed the school of the bullying only on
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/bronx/2010/06/19/2010-06-19_get_me_outta_here_slow_safety_transfer_for_bullied_pupil_whos_had_glasses_busted.html#ixzz0rJG8cDP1