A suburban student with a disability was apparently shoved and bullied by other students during an altercation that was captured on video, officials say.
The clip, which has made the rounds on social media, shows the student being pushed to the ground in the boys’ bathroom at York High School in suburban Elmhurst.
In a letter to parents, the school’s superintendent described the events depicted in the video as “an aggressive physical altercation by a student toward another student with a disability, while a group of bystanders watched and laughed.”Sign up for NBC Chicago newsletters.“Such behaviors are not tolerated,” the letter read. “Students involved in the situation were interviewed and significant school consequences were issued.
After the footage was published, an outraged student started a Change.Org petition, denouncing what happened and calling for dramatic changes.
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