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Oct 2, 2010

"At Hamilton middle school everything was either about being popular, being rich or having the best and newest clothing. I wasn't popular. I wasn't rich. I didn't have very nice clothes. I was pushed around because of these things. Kids in school were cruel. The teachers wouldn't do anything. The consular just told you how to deal with it. The school was horrible. I was made fun of through out all the years in that school." -Junior at CFISD

Shoes

"I'm a student at CFISD. In the eighth grade I had spilled something on my pants during lunch, and I was changing in the bathroom stall. I had someone I knew[not that well] with me, and since we didn't have a lot of time left, I shoved my shoes under the stall door and asked her to untie them while I was changing. When she was done, she said "I'll throw them over the door", but I heard someone whisper "hahah, aim for the toilet!". Yeah. They threw both my shoes in the toilet. What was I suppose to do? Walk home barefoot? When we walked out, the girl even said to a teacher "HAHA, I THREW HER SHOES IN THE TOILET!" The teacher just laughed. All I could do was smile along, hold back the burning tears, but I was dying inside. I had soggy shoes all the way home...

I came home shaking and with tears rolling down my cheeks. My dad kept asking what was wrong, but I kept saying "I'm fine". I told him that my shoes were thown in the toilet. Then he got mad at me for not giving any names, and I told him not to call the school... but he did anyway. I was too scared to rat anyone out. When they called me in the office the next day, I told them I wasn't going to give any names. If the teacher already saw it, why should I be the one to share?" - Private name

"born with out morals..."

"I didn't know very much about Asher Brown, except that he had been bullied for atleast two years at Hamilton Middle School. I can't imagine being hated for two long years of your life. I remember one day in the hallway, some guy walked up to Killian Brown, his brother, and shouted "Nerd!" right at his face. Killian shook it off by saying "Finally. You recognise me for who I am!" then he walked off. I went up to the guy and asked him why he said that. He just shrugged his shoulders and said "Because," I knew he had no good reason for doing that, and I was pretty sure he knew that too. I still don't know where all of this hatred comes from. It's like they were born with out morals, or something. The only glimpse i got of Asher was when we were in this math tutoring class together. He had this really bad skin rash all over his neck and face. I tried not to pay attention to it, because I didn't want to offend him. Then I heard about people who had come up with a new name for him, and it was all because of a simple rash. They just picked at everything about him. " -former student at Hamilton Middle School

A concerned student

"I go to Hamilton Middle School. I had a class with Asher in 6th grade...He was unique(but very nice and smart) and because of this people bullied him. In 7th grade he was in my TAKS room. The day before he had been out sick, and when he came back to school the next day, he had a rash of some sort. The students all made fun of him; he hid under his desk. The teacher did NOTHING about it, and I felt absolutely horrible. Now I wish I had stood up for him, but I was too afraid to because of fear of being picked on myself, so I stayed quiet. How in the world does a teacher not notice that?! How can you not see what's going on? It sickens me! All the APs worry about there is the dress code and if you are tardy or not. Never do they do anything on bullying! The day we found out Asher died, people were still making fun of him. Yes, many of the 8th graders cried, but some laughed it off. One student made a rude remark and said "Asher finally killed himself!" Another said "No one cared about him anyway." It's this kind of hate that ruins our world. I feel like I can't look my peers in the eyes anymore after I knew what they did-bully a kid to his death. I'm still unsure about the whole staircase thing though, that was a rumor going on around the school, no one claimed to have seen it...There's alot of rumors going around
HMS has done nothing so far to speak out against bullying. Sure, they put a sign up in the commons that said bullying was bad. But honestly, what's THAT going to do? I still see students picking on others, the sign has had no affect what so ever! The principal needs to have an assembly and talk to the students about bullying. There NEEDS to be consequences! I just hope the students of Hamilton change their ways before this happens again. " - a concerned student

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/100925-bullied-teen-suicide

Oct 1, 2010

A parent[10-1-10] from "www.myfoxhouston.com"

"I had reason to believe Cypress-Fairbanks ISD does not take bullying seriously. My son went to a middle school at CFISD last year and within the first week he was repeated being bullied. He was pushed in the hallway. He had bruises on his hand from the fall. His backpack was purposely unzipped while he was walking up the stairs so that all his textbooks fell out. An 8th grader accused my son of spitting at him and punched him on the face. I went to the Director of Transfer and fill out a transfer form listing all the above reasons for wanting to transfer my son out of the school but the response I got from the transfer committee was " It was not an acceptable reason for a transfer. Acceptable reason for a transfer would be something medical like allergic to the paint of the school". At that time I felt like if something ever happen to my son , CFISD will be responsible. " - A CFISD parent

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/news/local/101001-cy-fair-isd-releases-investigation-findings-into-teen's-death

Saw it happen.

"This is my story of CFISD:


I am a former student at Hamilton Middle School. I am a year older than Asher Brown, but I rode the bus with him and his older brother. I had a class with his older brother that year, and he was harassed 24/7 by EVERYONE in that class. The teacher knew what was happening but didn't do anything about it. Like at all. Finally, at the end of the year he had an out-burst at all the kids that wouldn't leave him alone...
and the teacher corrected him for yelling..." -Friend of Asher