Renee, real name withheld, said nothing was done to stop a boy from touching her daughter until she told her to punch the boy in the face. Renee’s daughter attended Malvern High School in Malvern, and was in the 11th grade last year when Renee said these incidents took place. Renee said she’d tried getting help from school faculty and even filed a police report last year, but Renee said the boy continued trying to touch her daughter. Renee said after nothing was done, she told her daughter to break his nose if he touched her again.

“They tried to punish my daughter again. I went up there and raised Hell about it. They didn’t punish her,” said Renee.

Recently parents have complained on Facebook about alleged bullying in the Malvern School District. An independent investigation via a Facebook Page, Hot Spring County Truth, collected several stories from interviews. Most of those posted here have given permission to use their real names, but real names are withheld in cases of alleged sexual harassment.

Rachel

Rachel, real name being withheld because of the nature of her story, said she was not aware she had the option of getting the police involved when her two middle school daughters came home telling her about bullying and assault committed by students. She said she’d reached out to faculty at the school several times and she didn’t know of anything done about it. The school said they are forbidden by law from revealing action taken in discipline against students. Rachel said the bullying and assault continued, so one Thursday morning in February she visited the Malvern Police Department with her complaints, including one which she had been unaware of until the previous day: an alleged sexual assault in which one student, according to her daughter, punched her “in private places.”

The daughter, “Kathrine,” said she’s had repeated problems with other bullies as well calling her a “thot” (slut) and she’s lost friends over it.

Rachel’s other daughter, “Summer,” said she’s been bullied both by students and teachers.

“I'm adopted and a teacher was talking about families and he had asked me to get out of the classroom because I don't belong in a family category,” said Summer.

She said students frequently call her a suicidal freak, fat emo girl and she said they tell her to kill herself. She said two teachers saw a student push her down the stairs but did nothing.

Angel Walton

Angel Walton accused a school bus attendant not only of refusing to stop bullying, but of wrongly disciplining her nine year old daughter.

Walton said a boy on the bus kissed her nine year old daughter on the cheek and that other boys started teasing her. She said her daughter asked if she could move to another seat but the bus attendant refused. Walton said her daughter was crying when she got off of the bus that day.

Walton said she called the school and left a message for the person in charge before speaking with the bus driver. She said she would file sexual harassment charges if it happened again, at which point Walton said the bus attendant approached and began yelling at her.

Walton said the attendant and school representative accused her daughter of lying and she said the bus attendant threatened to paddle the child. Walton said the bus monitor wrote her child up, but the school representative interviewed children about what happened and later apologized to Walton.

Cheyenne Clary

Clary said bullies at Wilson Middle School (part of the Malvern School District) bully her son, call him names and put their hands on him. She said teachers have been told but she feels like no one does anything.

Stephanie Korwes

Korwes said one of her sons was harassed because he does not follow a religion. She said this consisted of verbal taunts which came close to getting physical. She said she was told the coaches were aware. She said she talked to the school principal about the issue but does not know of any action taken.