A Philadelphia mother says inaction by the Philadelphia School District has led to her daughter being assaulted in her East Germantown high school. HMonroeNews reports.
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia mother says inaction by the Philadelphia School District has led to her daughter being assaulted in her East Germantown high school.
Reeves’ daughter Aizirrah is a ninth-grader at Martin Luther King High School in Northwest Philadelphia. She says her daughter’s time there has been a struggle since the start of the school year, and then it all came to a head Wednesday when school was letting out. We’ve blurred video of a different fight involving the same group of girls who Reeves says jumped her daughter. Reeves claims that she first reported the bullying to school officials back in October and that her requests for a transfer have been ignored.
A spokesperson for the district could not comment on this specific case and would be looking into the video and details Eyewitness News provided to them, but it said the district has zero-tolerance for bullying and harassment and instigators are subject to disciplinary action.
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