Author’s note:  I received permission from Nate’s mom to publish this post, since Nate is underage and I wouldn’t compromise his or his family’s privacy.  Nate is the friend of a friend of mine….Garrett Pittman, another great kid.  They play football together.  Garrett’s Mom let me know about this event and it infuriated me so much, I was compelled to blog about it….it is a small story in the grand scheme of things going on in this country right now…but illustrates what’s happening in the public school systems around the country.  Every damn day. 

This post is about Nathan Downy from Moreno Valley, CA.  A great student, a great kid, with a great family. A normal seventh-grade boy, looking forward to summer vacation starting at the end of this week.

But it’s also about public schools where bureaucratic baloney and political and cowardly “correctness” has trounced the common sense required by school administrations to deal with every increasing bullying and violence toward innocent victims.

Nathan had been hounded by the “alleged” school bully before, but did his best to stay out of the “alleged” bully’s way.  Until the “alleged” bully broke his jaw in two places when the “alleged” bully cold-cocked him as Nate went for a basketball.  So Nate’s summer vacation has turned into reconstructive surgery, pain, a liquid diet and knowing that he faces more surgery as he grows older, to continue to repair the damage.

Here’s the Local news report and video about what happened to Nate. I don’t think an actual broken jaw is “alleged”…. do you?  See, I’m having a bit of a problem about the use of the word….”alleged”.

Furthermore, Nate could not contact his parents until he filled out an “alleged” incident form.  I hope the “alleged” blood splatters on the report or Nate’s “alleged” pain didn’t distress the school personnel too terribly, I mean calling your parents immediately if you were bleeding and your jaw was sidewise on your face.