The E-Accountability Foundation has received reports for the past two years, since Septmenber 11, 2001, of massive harassment by school bullies of students who "look" like they are from the Middle East.

One example: "Karim" [not his real name] was a 3rd grader at PS 183. His parents are from India, therefore he his skin not "white". Throughout the year he was terrorized and beaten up by a fellow student in his class, who insisted that Karim was a "terrorist". The parents went to Principal Klaris many times, and then to the police. The police would not take a report, saying that this was the Principal's job. The father and mother pleaded, all to no avail. The mother was removed from the School Leadership Team. Karim's parents appealed to Chancellor Klein but received no answer.

Balint's son was beaten up at IS 44, Cybertek, by a gang within the school. The boy, "Eric" [not his real name] became fearful of going to school, and his parents kept him home for two months while they wrote countless letters to Chancellor Klein, and various other officials at Tweed, desperate to obtain a "violence" transfer. The Chancellor and everyone else at Tweed ignored Balint's pleas. They did thank him for writing them, however. For the last three months of the school year 2003-2004 the parents took Eric to school every day.

Why wont Chancellor Klein address this issue?

PARENTS' PLEA-MAILS TO KLEIN REVEAL SCHOOLS' LACK OF CLASS
By CARL CAMPANILE, NY POST, June 27, 2004

Thousands of desperate parents have deluged Schools Chancellor Joel Klein with e-mail rants that can be summed up in one word - help!
Please, Mr. Klein, stop the schoolyard bullies from beating up our kids, parents said in copies of letters obtained by The Post.

And please, Chancellor Klein, help assign our children to good schools, not bad schools.

"My child, who is 5 years old and attends PS 225 Q [in the Rockaways] was beaten up by an older student . . . I received no call from the school," an angry mom said.

"When my son got home he was complaining about his head hurting so I had to rush him to the emergency room. Malik's left side of his face is swelled and he has two small scratches."

The parent said she was subsequently informed that her son was attacked by a 12-year-old student.

She said her son has been traumatized and "doesn't want to go back to school."



She urged the chancellor to punish the school's staff for allegedly mishandling the matter.

Other anguished parents said the smart kids in the system are neglected because they have to attend classes with hoodlums.

"My son Richard is a bright child, but having to deal with the constant bullying and taunts from children are having a toll on him," said a distraught mom from IS 208 in Glen Oaks, Queens.

"My son was hit in the face with a text book by another student hard enough so [as] to cause bleeding and swelling."

A grandma of a second-grader at PS 21 in The Bronx complained that her high-performing grandson is being dragged down academically because he's in a class with mostly low-performing students, and the teacher must dumb down her lessons.

"As a grandparent, I am begging you to let my grandson maintain his academic excellence," she said, urging Klein to help get him into a better school or gifted program.

Parents griped that they couldn't get their eighth-grade kids into a good high school.

Under the new admissions policy, students are required to apply to 12 high schools in order of preference, but some didn't get any of their choices.

"If the Department of Education would make sure all NYC high schools were up to par, students wouldn't have to go through this stressful situation," said one e-mail.

Said another: "Something is horrifically wrong with this system. How [about] asking parents for feedback so that eighth-graders and their parents [next year] won't have nervous breakdowns."