WABASHA, Minn. – A Wabasha mother has gone to federal court with her allegations of lax school discipline against bullying and harassment. The case was originally in Wabasha County Court. The claim is that the Wabasha-Kellogg School District maintained a culture of meanness. According to the lawsuit, the bullying was so intense that the mother’s teen-age son, 14 at the time, considered suicide. The mother eventually withdrew the boy from school and sued. Although everybody in town knows those involved, news media have decided against reporting the names for the time being. The 26-page civil complaint alleges that the boy was sexually harassed and bullied for years. This culminated when lewd photos were passed around school. The boy was even physically harmed, according to the suit. The mother says the district failed to address the ongoing bullying sufficiently even though it was an explicit violation of the district’s anti-bullying prohibition and Title IX sexual nondiscrimination policies.
