How Midwest Schools Failed This Asian

this entire school system overlooked all of his issues all of his complaints and now he took his own life So what can we take away from all this and what's the message behind this guys This is a tragic story of Abash Tulong and uh you guys might have heard about it on social media through the different outlets but I'll just share parts of this video from Ed Choy This is the most blatant disregard for a child's safety and life from a school system including where multiple adults failed this child not only in and during his life but after it as well Not only do have the court documents of the lawsuit that the parents filed against the whole school district including the adults that were involved in addition to a lot of other details like who is exactly responsible and the details are going to make you livid In fact when Cali Walker told Abiesh that she was going to give him a suspension he went into distress mode and literally told her that he was going to run away and hurt himself And she did nothing and did not tell anyone including the school or Abesh's parents and instead decided to just move forward with the suspension And then the next day on March 21st 2024 on the first day of his out of school suspension Abesh took his own life The superintendent of Akran Public Schools Michael Robinson did nothing The principal of National Inventors Hall of Fame STEM Middle School Amanda Morgan did nothing Assistant Principal Jessica Fel did nothing Assistant Principal Denise Bahari whose office has this sign hanging up on it that literally denounces bullying Not only did she not do anything to help Abiesh but just barely 4 days after he took his own life on the 25th she's just too busy living her life and changing her profile pictures And the school counselor who Abiesh went to for help multiple times Shenica Rogers aka known as Sheree who at the time not only had eight years of experience under her belt as a school counselor but she had previous three plus years of experience with crisis management and advocating for client needs like when kids are having a crisis with bullying and need help from an adult So if you want to see the entire video you can watch it at the link down below at Ed Choy think he does an amazing job of covering a lot of these stories Um but this story it's it gets talked about but not really talked about enough because it's not on CNN it's not on MSN it's not even on NY Post it's not on any large news sites If you look at the news outlets that are covering this it's just like local Akran Ohio Akran Beacon Journal Cleveland.com some Asian-American sites So this story is not really getting out there but basically there's a huge lawsuit against this school who overlooked and had several chances to help this kid this Asian immigrant kid um with his bullying issues before he took his own life but they really did nothing I mean I I'll just go through some of the articles here Um the boy went to the school nurse 11 times from September of 2023 until his death in 2024 including four times about being a victim of assault by other students Uh the lawsuit asserts that no investigation was initiated to hold the students accountable who punched Abesh in the nose a green light to the bullies that the APS would tolerate this kind of conduct when directed towards Asians Another quote from the lawyer from the attorney of the family We feel that obviously this was a tragedy but it's something that could have been avoided if the school administrators would have just followed their own rules their own anti-bullying rules It was very preventable It was a tragic event So basically I'll I'll leave also a link to his GoFundMe for uh legal uh fees down below because I think that this could be a pretty big case if they win because you know lawsuits they are effective unfortunately you know money speaks So when you hit people for money and people are punished by having to pay you a lot of money you know uh it's not going to bring that life back But I it does make an impact in society right Because now everybody's got to be more on alert and pretty much not ignore kids like this Um so there are some harsh truths about this situation I thought about it One of the harsh truths that I came to conclusion about is that Abesh being a a Asian immigrant kid especially one from a smaller community in Akran Ohio uh did make it easier for people to overlook him because I I guess I feel like that maybe if he was like uh of one of the larger groups like a Chinese kid or Filipino kid or Vietnamese kid or Korean kid perhaps maybe there would have been more of a community for him But obviously Bhanese you know they don't make up a large amount Um uh the economic statistics of their group you know uh they they have their hardships So you know small groups like Mong Cham Bhutan Nepalese Burmese these are small Asian groups These are minorities of minorities They're not even of the the main larger Asian groups So I do think that that affected it a little bit But regardless these administrators and these teachers basically were essentially overlooking another Asian They were I think they were just being basically racist in the sense that they were not looking at the problems and they were not taking care of the business that administrators and teachers are supposed to do That's the whole point of this school And not to mention this is not just any school This is a STEM school This is a school This is not like the the worst school in the district like this is a school that specializes in these STEM subjects you know so the teachers are should be more academically focused and more focused on the students So that's why it's kind of crazy you know Number two he did fight back Abh did fight back He did speak up And so he did speak up He did uh fight back to the bullies And still nobody saw it And still nobody handled it correctly And and this could have been stopped at any point you know along the way cuz there were several adults involved in this You know I don't know what they were thinking Maybe they're thinking "Oh he's Asian He's going to be fine We don't have to This is not a big deal." You know he went to the nurse's office 11 times If a kid goes to the nurse's office even 11 times for even a stomach ache like that should raise a red flag People should be like "Yo what's wrong with this kid's stomach Like we should really investigate Like this is a student." You know what I mean And this is and he's not a bad student He he was on honor roll the year before He's clearly a smart kid and he clearly excels uh excelled in academics So that's why I'm like dude this was not a kid who was falling off the tracks It wasn't like one of the kid like this was like a good student A point number three another harsh truth is like I don't think you're going to fully ever eliminate bullying in school despite how much anti-bullying uh supposed to be like uh initiatives there are or like you have the posters that's anti-bullying Bullying is is a product of what happens and it happens everywhere in almost every community in every world in every country right So bullying is unfortunately something that happens in adolescence especially but like for a a country or or a school system that prides itself on being so anti-bullying It's insane that this was overlooked where five six grown adults who can understand what's going on They can't say "Oh well he was speaking Bhutanese to me so I didn't understand." There's no excuse Like he he could speak English I don't know maybe it was accented or something But he's clearly voicing and making complaints and these people are overlooking him And by the way this school is not that gigantic It's not like 4,000 kids There's only 400 students 400 is not a very big school It's not huge You can't say "Oh well you got lost in the fray and this is g this school is so gigantic you know we don't have the staffing." They they can't make that excuse This is a specialized like junior high or it's a specialized um sorry primary school elementary with only 400 kids And the last thing is is that kids are really cruel and and like I know that parents are busy and adults are busy teachers are busy administrators are busy but literally I mean this is one of the main issues in school and it doesn't just happen to Asian kids Obviously there's this case as one of the comments points out Joselyn Rojo Kuransza 11 years old also in Texas who she took her own life after she was getting teased at school about her family being deported and her being undocumented and stuff like that So bullying can come in any form to any community you know what I mean Obviously especially minority kids they suffer from it more So um it's a really sad case and that's why I'm bringing attention to it That's why Ed's bringing that's why everybody all the other Asian accounts are bringing attention to it because I'm really surprised that it's not being talked about I mean this could be a big big case This is a big lawsuit and a kid took his life I mean at 11 years old that's like that's he's so young like at 11 for kids this young to take their lives It's it's even more shocking in a way because you'd think if they're like an adult who went through a divorce who lost their kids lost a family lost their job depressed for clinically depressed on for many many years you know I'm just I'm not saying that is okay but like I guess you can just see that you know people who have been through more hardship in their life maybe you know they're in that situation But I was like at 11 like these kids these kids are young you know Um it shouldn't it shouldn't be happening I'll go in the comment section Um someone said the teacher needs to be also held accountable for not reporting the bullying and taking this boy's cry for help for coming to them This is heartbreaking Um yeah for sure I do think so And I that's why the lawsuit is against the whole school district because a lot of people didn't do anything Multiple people This wasn't one teacher It was multiple Um someone did comment for real What's the point of putting the bully together with the victim His parents should have taken action Um I think his parents did do something I think his parents heard about it and then approached the school and then the school still didn't do anything You know what I mean And no I'm not going to lie Like I think the parents didn't really know what was going on I'm sure the parents are are you know workingass immigrants You know they're just trying to get by You know it's true that I don't know if Abash didn't want to tell his parents or if he did and his parents didn't speak up early enough but his parents did speak up and clearly the school knew So at some point obviously you do have to put a lot of um you have to put some responsibility on the parents but at the end of the day the school system clear it's on record that they failed him He literally said he was going to hurt himself to a teacher before he hurt himself So it's just people are overlooking because I think he's Asian Does this happen to any other race you know especially he's he's a a immigrant kid So does this happen to any other race though Like try to replace it and see if it would work out you know Um someone says "This makes me so angry So many people failed him It can be so hard for kids to tell adults when they're being bullied." And he did to tell them "Be just so brave to speak up Uh I hope the school is held accountable Someone said "My son had a very similar experience this year and I had to personally get involved I was actually banned from the school for confronting a student because my son refused to get violent but I rather have it be me versus my son He is suffering from such trauma as well My heart goes out to Abh." So this mom actually got banned from the school for confronting the actual student Now I don't know what the whole process is with this cool Asian mom You know hopefully she also talked to the school but maybe she felt like the school wasn't doing enough again and so she stepped up and so she'd rather deal with the heat as the parent than her son who who who was unable to deal with it you know So this just goes to show you that the posters can be there There can be all these anti-bullying commercials The school can have these assemblies about don't bully don't bully this Obviously there's been anti-bullying talk since I was a kid Obviously people have been talking about this for decades you know but until people actually step up and these adults actually step up uh uh yeah obviously the worst can still happen So um the link is for the GoFundMe down below The link to Ed's uh Ed Choy's video covering all the details of the lawsuit is also down below But uh yeah I mean you know people with kids uh I think you also Yeah I mean it's something to think about So anyways let me know what you guys think down below This is a tragic case Um but again yeah bullying happens So how do you deal with it and how does it not get overlooked And so that's why this lawsuit I think is big because I I think it's going to affect schools maybe across the nation Um so anyways uh yeah let me know what you guys thinking down below Uh and until next time I'm out