Bensenville Mom Says School Officials Have Ignored First-Grade 'Fight Club'
(CBS) – One Bensenville mom describes it as a first grade "Fight Club" and says her son was the latest one beaten.
CBS 2's Dana Kozlov reports.
Seven-year-old Jaden White said he was beaten up last Friday on the playground when another first-grader hit him in the face.
"He punched me and hit my lip," said Jaden.
Jaden had told him not to kick another student's lunchbox.
"He punched him in the mouth and then his head busted back against the wall," his mom, Shana Tiedel, said, adding that the wall he hit was brick.
Tiedel says he went to the nurse but was sent back out, icepack in hand, to stand next to the same aggressive boy again.
"He told me, 'You tattletale' and punched me in the face," Jaden says.
Tiedel says the school called her 90 minutes later, offering little insight into what would be done. She took Jaden to the hospital.
She says it's the latest in a month-long string of recess beatings by the same boy and a few friends. School officials have done nothing, Tiedel says.
"My mom told me to ignore them, but it keeps on getting worse and worse," said Jaden.
Bensenville District 2 Superintendent James Stelter emailed CBS 2 to say the district always responds to discipline concerns immediately. But he did not address the reported, on-going physical bullying by that group of boys.
Jaden's mom heard back from the principal on Monday night.
"I want to make sure something gets done because it's going to be somebody else's child next week or the week after that," said Tiedel.