Worthless School Administrators

DENVER -- A day after 7NEWS reported that a 13-year-old middle school student with cerebral palsy was bullied to the point of having her hair set on fire and who was suspended, while her attacker remained in school, the Denver Public School System has taken action.

On Tuesday, 7NEWS reported that Courtney Glowczewski (pictured, left) was sent home after the attack and told not to bother about taking final exams, while the classmate accused in the incident was not disciplined.

The interim principal admitted her staff did not call police, did not interview potential witnesses, and did not conduct a proper investigation, 7NEWS reported.

Wednesday night, DPS spokesman Mark Stevens said the alleged attacker was disciplined, and the district has apologized for the incident -- admitting that administrators at the school didn't handle the incident properly.

"There were serious lapses in our processes and our standards," said Stevens. "Victims of harassment and bullying need support and outreach and our full attention."

Stevens did not say what discipline was handed out to the student who is also accused of threatening the girl with a plastic knife prior to setting her hair on fire.

Stevens also said the interim principal who sent Glowczewski home and failed to discipline the alleged attacker will be replaced. He also said the Glowczewski family will be offered counseling.

Courtney's mother said the hair incident was just the latest in a two-year series of taunts and bullying at the middle school.

"She's bullied all the time, because her right arm is smaller than her left because of cerebral palsy. Her jaw is protruding and it comes out further on the bottom and they called her 'grandma' one day for that," said Sherrie Glowczewski.

"The fact that an incident report was not filed in this case is serious," said 7NEWS Investigates reporter John Ferrugia, the reporter who broke the story. "Those reports are part of the annual school accountability required by law and they directly affect a school's rating and, in part, its funding."

According to statistics, Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School had the most fights of any school in the state. Sherrie Glowczewski attributes that in part to the bullying climate that pervades the school, a point disputed by Stevens.

"I just wanted to go to a school that didn't make fun of me," said Courtney. "I just wanted to be treated with respect."

This doesn't surprise me at all. I was a victim of bullies in school and I was offered no protection at all from the school staff. I use to go see my vice principal who said " Do you expect me to follow you around school all day?". I was attacked on my way to school, on my way home from school, in the school halls, girls room, etc... I reported this to teachers and principal, but they did absolutely nothing. I eventually quit school when I was 15 since I couldn't take it anymore. I then started lifting weights and at 16 I tracked down all the bullies and confronted them and to my surprise, none of them had the balls to stand up to me. They never bothered me again, but by then it was too little, too late.
The bullies are the ones who govern the schools and no one does anything to protect their victims. Those little abusive pieces of **** need to be thrown out of school and into some kind of bootcamp if you ask me!