Bullied Boerum Hill boy
The NY Post is running a story today on a boy named Eric Benson who claims he’s been getting beat up for the past two years at the New Horizons Middle School on Hoyt Street in Boerum Hill. The bullying escalated into Benson suffering a groin injury last spring that required surgery, and since then his guardians have been attempting to get him transferred to a new school, with no success, as New Horizons has deemed the incident “horseplay.” Anyone out there aware of the situation? Who’s telling the truth - the kid/his guardians or the school?
Eric’s grandma and uncle just want the boy placed in another school under what’s called a “safety transfer” — Department of Education-speak for “This school has a problem.”
The request was denied.
As eighth grade goes on without him, Eric sits, bored to tears, day after day in his grandma’s Cobble Hill living room, scrolling through the Internet and wishing he were in a classroom.
“The main thing now is I want to get in a school,” he told me.
The abuse “just happened out of the blue,” said Eric. “I didn’t know I was going to get hit.”
“What has to happen to get a safety transfer?” grandma Alice chimed in. “Does he have to get stabbed?”
Posted
: October 19th, 2009 at 11:11 am by Diana Rosenthal under Boerum Hill, News.
Tags:eric benson, new horizons school, new york post
Comments: 1
Comment from lisa buckley
Time: October 19, 2009, 8:12 pm
these bullies are losers, pieces of shit. my son was bullied in a in a nassau counTy school. I put a end to it or school officials would not have a job anymore. The principal of that school should get the boot along with the bullies. Bullies are insecure assholes who end up useless in society: shame on there parents who are also worthless aholes.