A five-year-old Saskatchewan boy who lost a leg and now walks with a prosthetic limb has been bullied off his school bus, his father says.
Rather than confront the bullies and their parents to stop the harassment, the Prairie South School Division instead told the boy he wouldn’t be allowed to take the bus anymore, Robert Coomber says. “It’s just a shame that in his five years, he has to be a victim over and over again,” Mr. Coomber told CBC of his son Ryan, who lost his left leg in a lawn tractor accident in 2008. He said his son has been riding the bus from the family’s home in the small town of Willow Bunch, Sask., to preschool in Assiniboia, about 40 kilometres away, for the past eight months and had experienced bullying before, mainly because of his prosthetic. But it wasn’t until May 4, when Ryan stepped off the bus with a black eye, that Mr. Coomber decided it was time to try to put an end to the bullying. “I asked him what had happened. He said one of the older kids had yelled at him to shut up and punched him clean in the eye,” said Mr. Coomber, noting that the student who allegedly punched his son was around 14 years old and “six-foot” tall. Despite calling the RCMP and attempting to speak to the parents of the other students on the bus, Mr. Coomber says he got no satisfactory answers. Read more: http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=3020918#ixzz0npqxKfi6
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