Two parents are suing a Las Vegas backstage school, alleging their 10-year-old lad was excessively bullied for months and had a bony knocked out.
The suit was filed Monday successful Clark County District Court by parents Noori On and Jimyoung Yu against Las Vegas Day School.
The filing lists Las Vegas Day School and 3 of its employees arsenic defendants: teacher Cheryl Collins and guidance counselors Tom Shininger and Tara Warnsdorfer. It alleges the defendants neglected to code students’ bullying of On and Yu’s lad for months.
Las Vegas Day School is simply a backstage schoolhouse with preschool done eighth people classes successful Spring Valley. Elementary tuition for this upcoming schoolhouse twelvemonth is $21,000, according to the school’s website.
None of the defendants responded to requests for remark connected Wednesday.
Boy recovered schoolhouse ‘unbearable,’ ailment claims
The suit alleges Warnsdorfer’s lad and different students started bullying On and Yu’s lad successful January 2025. The students called the lad “dirty” and “stinky,” and the bullying led others successful the people to exclude him from radical work, according to the complaint.
The bullying escalated a period aboriginal erstwhile Warnsdorfer’s lad pushed the lad hard capable that helium fell, knocking retired 1 of his teeth, the suit alleged. The ailment besides alleged Warnsdorfer’s lad besides pushed and kicked On and Yu’s lad during and aft classes.
On and Yu learned astir the bullying connected March 19, 2025, and met with Collins, their son’s teacher, to sermon the abuse, the suit said. Collins told the parents that she would support a adjacent oculus connected their son, according to the filing.
But the bullying continued, the ailment alleges, arsenic 1 pupil aboriginal threw a publication astatine On and Yu’s lad during class.
The lad reached a “breaking point” connected April 11, 2025, and slapped Warnsdorfer’s lad successful effect to the bullying helium was enduring, the suit said. On and Yu’s lad received a behaviour announcement and 1 time of detention implicit the slap, according to the complaint.
The suit said that On and Yu met with Shininger and Collins connected April 23, 2025. Shininger focused the gathering connected the boy’s slap alternatively of the bullying helium endured from his classmates and told the parents that Las Vegas Day School did not see what happened to their lad to beryllium bullying, the ailment said.
“Defendant Shininger besides implied that (the boy) someway deserved the maltreatment and bullying helium endured because, according to accusation helium attributed to Defendant Collins, (he) exhibited unspecified ‘socially unacceptable behavior,’” the suit alleged.
On and Yu withdrew their lad from Las Vegas Day School connected May 2, 2025, and aboriginal moved to Arizona, according to the lawsuit.
“(The boy) suffered utmost distress and recovered LVDS to beryllium unbearable,” the ailment alleged. “Most of his classmates avoided him, helium continued to beryllium bullied relentlessly, and helium felt helium could not spot the teachers oregon module astatine LVDS to forestall further abuse.”
Parents ‘lost faith’
The suit said that a intelligence wellness nonrecreational aboriginal diagnosed On and Yu’s lad with accommodation upset arsenic a effect of the bullying helium endured. Adjustment disorders are beardown reactions to accent that impact symptoms of antagonistic thoughts, behaviors and emotions.
In an emailed connection from his attorney, Robert Teuton, Yu said helium and On initially tried to fto the students resoluteness their issues with guidance from the school. But the 2 became acrophobic with the school’s attack to the concern aft discussions with schoolhouse representatives, helium said.
“As beardown believers that children request to beryllium taught what’s close and wrong, we felt it was a substance for them to enactment through,” Yu said. “After aggregate unsuccessful attempts to resoluteness this contented with LVDS, we mislaid religion successful the school’s quality and willingness to guarantee pupil information and supply a nurturing learning environment.”
The ailment requests a assemblage proceedings and much than $30,000 successful wide damages and past and aboriginal peculiar damages.
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