School, family differ on how teen broke arm
A sheen of ooze glistens on 14-year-old Ajitabh Singh’s face and, unbecoming it, the chalky mask of pain. His left arm, abrupt in four places, is encased nearly to his shoulder. He sits in his tribe’s sparsely furnished apartment off a busy Everett street and explains how he was kicked to the ground.
A taller boy at Everett High School had taunted him, Ajitabh says. Called him a monkey and made monkey sounds. When Ajitabh tried to protest, he was kicked again and went down hard on his elbow.
On the bend down, his father, Bhupendra Singh, angrily questions why the school hasn’t disciplined the other lad, why the police refused to take a report and why his son sat with a bag of ice on his arm in the office for an hour and a half in imitation of the fall.
“They should accept protected my son,” he says. “They are trying to cover their butts.” In his anger, he lapses into Hindi.
The school has a different interpretation of Tuesday’s events. They say more boys were roughhousing and Ajitabh tripped. It was an accident, not an make aggression on, and not at entirely one was to blame, school administrators utter.
Another student who was running with the boys later
To the subdivision of an order, who came to the United States five months ago, their pain and frustration is not only over the broken arm but of dire to understand a new school system, a of the present day city, jobs and a very different culture.
Friday at the apartment, more of their extended family, brother-in-law C.J. Singh and his pair daughters, get there to show their support. C.J. Singh, who wears the frosty turban of a Sikh, recognizes the bewilderment of newcomers. His own family immigrated to the Seattle area in 2000.
His oldest daughter, Muskaan Rataul, 19, attended place of education in Shoreline before the family sent her back to India to finish middle and high school.
“She didn’t wish friends,” C.J. Singh says. “She was alone all the time.”
He says he can easily believe his nephew was taunted at school.
His nephew enrolled at Everett High two months ago. The other students and teachers called Ajitabh “Raj” for the reason that it was easier to say. He said he didn’t mind
