After years of bullying, Lanadier’s parents plan to sue the high school where their 14-year-old daughter was attacked by students after classes in March.
“I want people to understand that I’m tired and that it’s going to happen at some point,” said 14-year-old Alexi Lajeunez.
After spending the year regularly “crying in the special education technician’s office,” the teenager decided to testify openly.
“I want them to understand that [les intimidatrices] You can’t touch me anymore.”
On March 26, Thérèse-Martin was brutally attacked by students at the school bus stop in Joliet.
In two videos we can see her specifically being dragged by the hair, tackled to the ground and punched. Newspaper.
A complaint was lodged with the police. We confirmed with the Director of Criminal and Criminal Prosecutions that two juveniles now face criminal charges in relation to this incident.
Alexey’s parents sent formal notice of $60,000 to Summers’ Center for School Services (CSS) and the two students’ parents in April, before filing a lawsuit.
This is the same CSS as in the case Berthierville’s father who attacked the bully of her son last February.
At the time of the events, the school of about 1,900 students did not have any mentors or supervisors on their way out, said Marie-Eve Lemierre, Alexey’s mother. It was actually a bus driver who took the boy in charge.
“One of my daughter’s friends called me to tell me that my daughter was being beaten,” she says. “I can’t believe it.”
“They judged my clothes”
For Alexi, this episode was the culmination of bullying that had been ongoing since she was 5 years old.e Primary year.
“They judged my clothes, they called me a whore, they humiliated me.” She sometimes indulged in bad behavior to please her bullies, she admits.
But she says school staff did not take her complaints seriously. “At lunchtime, I ate alone in the toilet.”
At the beginning of high school his grades and mood began to decline. Her parents say a private group has even been created to insult her and make fun of her clothes on social media.
“No intervention was made [pour faire cesser l’intimidation] Apart from a few meetings”, we criticize the formal notification.
No support
Parents decry the lack of support since the March 26 attack. They asked Alexei to change classes, where many students bullied him. The school would have refused.
On April 2, the day Alexie returned to school, she and her father waited for a good 45 minutes near the secretariat, which they say highlights the irony of the “zero tolerance” poster for bullying.
Parents criticize that no steps have been taken to reintegrate Alexey. No teacher has been notified. Some of the bullies’ parents were also not informed of the situation, contrary to what they said, as noted in the timeline they provided Newspaper.
In class, students simply showed a video of Alexey’s own attack on their cell phones.
On several occasions, she had to leave school because of new threats or anxiety attacks.
Homeschooling
“I get scared every time I walk alone,” admits the teenager.
As of April 23rd, he is officially homeschooled.
“What we want is for there to be awareness not only for the school but also for the parents [des jeunes intimidateurs]”, said Mme scenes.
At the time of publication, Thérèse-Martin School had not responded to our request. For its part, CSS des Samares confirms it received the proper notice and says it acted “immediately and diligently,” according to Hélène Duchaine, deputy director of the communications department, by email.
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