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Parents of a bullied middle schooler are suing the Palm Beach County School District for not doing enough to protect their child from assault. The parents allege that a student beat their 14-year-old son, took $300 and stole his iPod while riding the bus. The suit alleges that the pattern of abuse over several months lead to the student’s declining grades.The parents are seeking $15,000 in damages. The suit claims that the aggressor’s parents failed to keep their son from “stalking, extorting and attacking” the teen. The incidents that inspired the lawsuit took place in Boca Raton in 2010 while the students attended Don Estridge High Tech Middle School. The parents allege that the bullying was not addressed by the administration until they visited the school and filed a formal complaint. Nearly a third of all middle and high school students experienced some form of bullying in the 2008-09 school…
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