Posted on 05/17/2024 5:53:04 PM PDT by Morgana
A 12-year-old Las Vegas girl took her own life after being tormented by bullies at her middle school for months.
Flora Martinez, a sixth grader at Keller Middle School, killed herself on May 7 - eight months and one day after her transfer out of Duane D. Keller middle school was denied. Her funeral was on Thursday.
Her distraught parents are now blaming the Clark County School District for not doing enough to protect their daughter.
Grieving mother, Alice Martinez told News8: 'I feel like the school had a duty to keep her safe, while she was in their care and they just failed miserably.'
The young girl's parents said their daughter's peers started bullying her early into the school year. Flora's mother claimed both she and her child approached the assistant principal for help.
The mom then submitted paperwork for her daughter's transfer out of the middle school, but her request was denied in October.
Flora's mother said she had taken her daughter out of school for two weeks early in the school year when the bullying began, but when she returned to school it intensified.
'Everybody that had a hand in that request to transfer her failed her. If you’re a parent and you’re not outraged by this, you’re part of the problem too,' Martinez said.
Flora's dad Joshua Parker said: 'This wasn’t just one incident that happened, and you know, she decided to take her life.
'This was months and months and months of bullying that built up, and finally, she just couldn’t take it no more.'
The heartbroken father added: 'Look how hard it was on my daughter. My daughter was literally bullied to death.'
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True. It doesn't matter where the children are educated, or whether their families are rich or poor, or anything else.
Public schools, private or parochial schools, homeschool groups - no matter where, some children are sweet, some are mean, some are a mixture, and they all must learn right from wrong.
It's up to the adults to guide them in the right direction and keep them under control.
My position is that Christians need to take control of their country and unapologetically reset things to the way they should be.
Liberals will keep pushing things to utter destruction, because they want to see how far they can go and they don’t mind 8 billion dead people, as they got what they wanted to feel satisfied.
It’s time to stay stop. Become intolerant of everything liberal, because everything liberal is evil. If a teacher does something liberal, fire him that day. If an administrator does something liberal, fire him that day and don’t pay your taxes until he is fired.
Have no tolerance for the liberal position. We can see that liberals would prefer 8 billion dead people than a non-liberal world.
Yes!
I work and homeschool. I know many other parents who work and homeschool. I know many other parents who live on a very small budget due to one parent working. Life is about choices.
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