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Lennon Donating Member (179 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 12:27 PM
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Bully Put Lynn Boy In Hospital
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http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=73913


http://wbztv.com/local/lynn.bullying.bully.2.688600.html
An 11-year-old boy from Lynn is in intensive care and his family claims he is a victim of bullying.

Alyssa Cormier told WBZ that her son, Mathew Mumbauer, is paralyzed and on a ventilator at Massachusetts General Hospital, suffering from pneumonia.

Cormier claims the incident happened March 11 at the Brickett Elementary School, where Mumbauer is a student.

Cormier told WBZ her son was pushed down a flight of stairs by a boy who had been bullying him. She said her son complained of pain later in the day and had to be carried out by the school nurse.

Two days later Mumbauer was experiencing paralysis, according to his family.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 12:31 PM
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1. Wow
The school nurse carried him out? That was dumb. I wonder why she didn't call 911. We had a kid with a nose bleed the other day that wouldn't stop and our nurse called 911.

This is a really sad story, on many levels.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 12:35 PM
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2. Any kid who has to be carried out of school
needs an ambulance trip to the ER to get checked out.

I hope that nurse has her malpractice insurance paid up.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 12:40 PM
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4. Is this a rural area with limited 911 services?
I can't think of any other reason she wouldn't have called 911.
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yewberry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 12:47 PM
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5. No. Lynn is less than 10 miles north of Boston.
I can't imagine why either.
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Tandalayo_Scheisskopf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 01:18 PM
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11. Who was the bully?
What was his relationship to the nurse, someone in the school or someone important in the town? Was he a big sports hero? Some other kind of BMOC?

Something tells me she tried to keep this very low key, to protect someone.
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 12:50 PM
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6. I wonder what her qualifications as "nurse" really are.
Sometimes schools can't get fully qualified professsionals to work for them, so they take what they can get. Of course I don't know in this case...
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 12:59 PM
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8. In my state they 'prefer' LPNs
but they will hire anyone, with or without a license. They really don't pay school nurses enough to get RNs.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 12:37 PM
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3. WTF?
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 12:50 PM
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7. sadly, a lot of administrators look the other way at bullying because they identify with
the popular kids, often bullies.

The principal at that school should be held criminally liable.

Of course the bully should be prosecuted as well, but adults create the environment that allows that to happen.

At my elementary school, most of what they did made things worse. For example, they took the doors off the stalls in the boys bathroom for some reason, which made it impossible to take a dump since it was too easy to be attacked.

I was one of the smallest kids in my class, and when I tripped a bully who was pushing me around, we BOTH got suspended.

I ended up staying home most of the time in 7th and 8th grade and ended up going to a very good magnet high school. If my high school had been run the way my grade school was, I probably wouldn't have graduated.
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silverojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 01:08 PM
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9. For once, I want to see the death penalty for a minor
When a bully paralyzes a kid, it's time this country cracks down on bullies like a ton of bricks. Any young psycho who does shit like this is going to become more daring as he/she gets older, until it culminates in murder.
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Karenina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-06-08 01:16 PM
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10. Sick, sick, sick.
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