2 Investigators: Hearing-Impaired Student Bullied At School

March 9, 2012 12:00 AM " CHICAGO (CBS) — A young boy says first he was bullied by some classmates and then a teacher allegedly joined in.

2 Investigator Dave Savini looks at how the school handled the bullying complaint and how the so-called solution made going to school even harder.

Nine-year Jason Padilla has trouble communicating because he lost his ability to hear at birth.

But he can come up with a few words to describe his situation: “Not happy; bad people.”

Padilla, who has limited speaking abilities, communicates with the help of a hearing device called a cochlear implant.

The third-grader attends Alexander Graham Bell School in Chicago, where he says he’s been repeatedly hit and verbally abused by students. One even allegedly threatened him using sign language.

Earlier this year while at recess, Padilla says a boy hit him and tore his cochlear implant from his ear and head.

His mother, Christina Maldonado Padilla, says it was an act of both physical and emotional aggression.

“I think he’s fed up with it,” she says "

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