2 Investigators: District Criticized For Response To Bullying Claims

October 24, 2011 12:00 AM " CHICAGO (CBS) — Students repeatedly bullied at school often times find themselves trapped, forced to continue going to a school with their tormentors.

Now, the family of an 11-year-old girl in this situation is taking action that could help other bully victims.

2 Investigator Dave Savini reports.

Alexis Boundas’ classroom this year has been in her basement. What she misses most about school is being with her friends.

Alexis has been home-schooled since leaving Maercker Elementary School in Westmont, she says, because of extreme bullying.

The fifth-grader says she was groped and kissed. She wanted to go to a different school, but district officials did not allow it, even after a terrifying threat from a boy.

“He said, ‘Tonight I’m going to come to your house with my gun and kill all your family,’” Alexis said, adding the boy claimed his mother was a police officer and he had access to a gun.

Tom Boundas, Alexis’s father, says the school did not do a proper investigation and did not even check for witnesses. Then, without her parents’ knowledge, the Maercker School District put Alexis in a room with the boy for a counseling session.

“He just threatened to kill our family,” Tom Boundas says. “You can’t be putting that person in the room with my daughter.” "

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