Sanger parents team up with organizations to battle bullying

SANGER, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Sanger Unified parent is teaming up with section organizations to rise consciousness astir bullying aft she says the schoolhouse territory hasn't done capable to support her lad and clasp bullies accountable.

Mao Her said her lad Kent has ever loved school.

After facing persistent bullying online and successful idiosyncratic from classmates astatine Sanger West High School, he's go anxious and his grades person suffered.

"To person this hap to my lad is conscionable truthful devastating," said Her.

"We person slept precise small since March, we person been truthful distressed implicit this situation."

In March, Her went to the schoolhouse and constabulary aft she recovered retired determination was an Instagram relationship dedicated to posting pictures and memes astir her lad and his disabilities.

Kent's parents said the relationship was created successful 2019 and had much than 450 followers.

It was progressive arsenic precocious arsenic the commencement of the schoolhouse year.

"The page, what it says successful determination is conscionable welcoming everyone backmost and archer everyone to get a representation of my son," said Chang Moua, Kent's Father.

"We started successful March we got nary answers until August 27th erstwhile I appeared astatine the committee meeting," added Her.

"With 470 posts astir of the followers are from Sanger West High School and thing was being done successful those months."

The leafage was yet removed by Instagram.

Sanger Unified responded successful a connection that work successful part:

"We support a zero-tolerance argumentation for bullying successful immoderate form, whether it occurs connected field oregon online."

The territory credited their enactment alongside constabulary and parents with the removal of the Instagram and said it can't remark connected circumstantial disciplinary action.

Kent's parents reached retired to the Fresno Center and Stop the Hate for support, which person helped them instrumentality much action, including preparing complaints for the ACLU and the California Department of Education.

The Fresno Center encourages anyone facing favoritism oregon bullying astatine school, online, oregon successful the assemblage to interaction their office.

"We tin link them to therapy, adjacent talking to the school, possibly helping them spell done the process with them, conscionable being their motivation support," said Cyndee Loryang with Stop the Hate.

Kent's parents are grateful for the enactment from the Fresno Center and person a connection for the kids progressive successful the bullying and their parents.

"This is incorrect successful each way. You person harmed my lad mentally, and physically and he's going to transportation it for the remainder of his life," said Her.

There volition beryllium a Unity Walk and United Against Hate Block Party this Thursday astatine 4:30 p.m. astatine the Fresno Center.

Her is hoping radical volition travel retired to larn much astir the family's communicative and enactment the Stop the Hate Initiative.

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