Bullied teen wants school transfer

Middletown, Conn. (WTNH) - A Middletown student who says she's been the victim of bullying wants to be be transferred to another school.

Monique McClain was a student at Woodrow Wilson Middle School until January. She got bullied so much, her family pulled her out of school. The had been picking up homework assignments, but then that stopped and the school referred them to the Board of Education office across the street. Now, things have come so far that a state marshal is involved.

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"It became not safe to be at school," Monique said.
"As in they were actually threatening you?"
"Yeah," she responded.

That's why Monique doesn't go to school right now. Her mother and grandmother are teaching her at home while they wait for Middletown to put her in another school. We first met Monique a few weeks ago at school board meeting. It turns out right after that meeting, the school stopped supplying Monique's mom with homework, and called the Department of Children and Families to say that Monique was not going to school - she was truant.

"If you want to call DCF on me and say that my daughter is truant…when she left school in January, she had been doing the work. All I asked for was a tutor until they could find her a different school," said Alycia McClain, Monique's mother.

And in the meantime, she asked for the homework. They got a lawyer, and that lawyer hired a state marshal to come to the Superintendent's office and get the homework. That's her in the beige coat. But there was no homework, and when she asked to see the Superintendent.

"He's out of the building at meetings," the superintendent's secretary said.

'Out of the building at meetings," which means another day of Monique not being able to do what she wants.

"Do work. At home," Monique said.
"You would like to be doing homework, but you can't?"
"Yeah," she responded.

Earlier this month, the Superintendent told News 8 that the district was working on the bullying problem, Monique's mother and grandmother call that too little, too late. They want the homework and a tutor, and then for Monique to go to a different school.

We put another call into the Middletown Board of Education and are waiting to here back for a response.