He sues school & student bully — 8 yrs. later!
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In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Eric Giray — now a sophomore at Brandeis University — accuses Daniel Dworakowski — now a sophomore at Cornell — of taunting him for years before shoving him into the school’s bleachers on Oct. 15, 2004.
Giray, who attended Calhoun for the sixth, seventh and eighth grades, broke his nose and needed 18 stitches to close the gashes, according to his attorney Ric Cherwin.
The incident came two weeks after Giray’s mother, Dr. Ayse Giray, a pediatrician, complained in two emails to school administrators that Dworakowski, a champion athlete, had repeatedly called her smaller son “gay” and told him he had “elephant ears.”
Dworakowski’s mother, Elzbieta, told the Daily News yesterday that she was shocked that Giray had filed a lawsuit so many years after the event.
“Oh, please. That was not a bullying. That was just an accident. A teacher told us it was an accident and nothing else,” she said, her voice shaking with emotion.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/sues-school-student-bully-8-yrs-article-1.1049387#ixzz1pwsxEXHW
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When I grew up, an assertion by a neighbor, teacher or anyone else that I had done something wrong was skeptically accepted by my parents. First of all it happened very rarely but when it did my parents were fairly deferential to whoever was raising the concern. They always asked me for my side of the story and made a reasoned judgment. But they never immediately jumped to my defense as if I could do no wrong.
Even if the teacher had characterized this as "an accident", I can't believe the school did not do a thorough investigation when you have a student with a broken nose that required 18 stitches. That does not sound like any "mere accident" I have ever seen. I suspect if the teacher said that it was because of either incompetence, potential repercussions for the teacher if he/she were responsible for the students at the time, or pure homophobia ("he got what he had coming to him"
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I hope the facts will come to light and if Dworakowski is guilty he is appropriately punished.
