MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota - September 21, 2011 - A mother who confronted two boys who bullied her 10-year-old son has been banned from her son’s Minneapolis school and even her son’s bus stop for the rest of the year.

Tanya Sydney said she does not regret taking actions into her own hands to keep her son from being a victim.

Last week, fifth-grader Sovante Griffin told his Mom and Stepdad he was being bullied on the school bus. Sydney said he told her that boys were hitting him, so she took matters into her own hands. She went to the bus stop the next day and confronted the bus driver.

“He told me, ‘I am doing the best I can, I can’t be in 50 million places at once,’” Sydney said.

She then got on the bus and yelled at the two boys that Griffin said were the bullies.  “Specifically to the two boys I said you need to keep your hands to yourselves,” she said.

The driver ordered her off the bus. She and Griffin then walked to Lake Nokomis Community School. Sydney said when she and Griffin got to school they were met by the school’s police liaison officer, the principal, and a transportation supervisor.

Sydney said the supervisor pulled out a photograph of another African-American woman whom he said had created a disturbance on a school bus last year.

“That is when the transportation guy apologized and said ‘I assumed you were the woman from last year',” she said.

Her son and the two bullies later had to apologize to each other. Sydney got a letter from the principal saying she is banned from school grounds and the bus stop for the rest of the school year.

Ed. Note: You cannot ban someone from a bus stop, which is public property! Parents who love their children must get them out of public school today! Parents who leave their children in public indoctrination centers do not love their children!

Call the idiots at Lake Nokomis Community School and let them know what you think of their moronic behavior when it comes to a loving parent stopping bullies because the incompetent school district either can’t or won't.  Call and let your VOICE be heard!

Lake Nokomis Community School
Keewaydin Campus
Jane Ellis, Principal
612-668-4670