Mother pulls daughters from Surrey school over student’s alleged violent outbursts

Parents of children astatine a Surrey simple schoolhouse are acrophobic astir escalating unit they assertion is being displayed by a Grade 1 pupil with peculiar needs.

Jessica Rahman told Global News she is keeping her five-year-old duplicate daughters location from Kindergarten due to the fact that she fears their schoolhouse is presently unsafe for them to attend.

“I garbage to nonstop my children into this country wherever this kid is,” Rahman, a Don Christian Elementary parent, said Friday.

“Our five-year-old girl has been punched and kicked successful the stomach.”

A Social Development (SD) Program is integrated wrong Cloverdale’s Don Christian Elementary to conscionable the learning needs of students requiring intensive behavioural intervention, oregon experiencing superior intelligence illness.

Rahman said a six-year-old lad receiving the further enactment has been exhibiting unit erstwhile helium is without big supervision.

“I’ve witnessed this idiosyncratic onslaught different individuals connected the schoolhouse playground,” Rahman told Global News. “He’s screaming and swearing, ‘f–k you bitch,’ helium uses the ‘C’ word, helium fingers the teachers, he’s kicked the principal’s shins in, he’s large and he’s scary.”

Parents, including Amanda Germyn, accidental they person a heavy empathy for everyone involved, including the child’s parents, but that the schoolhouse territory has truthful acold been incapable to halt the ongoing acts of aggression.

“I privation this kid and each kid to beryllium capable to beryllium astatine school, but close now, it feels similar information is being prioritized beneath inclusion,” Germyn said Friday.

“And I don’t deliberation it should travel astatine the outgo of each different pupil astatine the school.”

Surrey-Cloverdale BC Conservative MLA Elenore Sturko said parents “shouldn’t person to take betwixt inclusion and safety.”

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Sturko said enactment for children with analyzable needs is underfunded crossed the state and she’s reached retired to Surrey Schools, Don Christian Elementary’s principal, and B.C. Education Minister Lisa Beare.

“I truly bash look guardant to sitting down and helping benignant done this issue,” Sturko said.

“My sentiment is that it astir apt is simply a resourcing issue.”

Rahman said she believes the kid needs one-on-one supervision “at each times.”

Surrey Schools did not marque anyone disposable for an interrogation connected Friday.

In a statement, the territory said “the information of students is our fig 1 priority, arsenic is their privateness and confidentiality.”

Surrey Schools did not accidental what, if anything, is being done to code the concern astatine Don Christian Elementary.

Rahman said her five-year-old girls volition stay astatine location until a harmless solution has been found.

She added her different girl successful Grade 3 continues to be the school, but lone due to the fact that she has martial arts training.