Thread by @SarahisCensored

EXCLUSIVE: In September 2022, a Fort Worth, Texas school attempted to bury a dangerous mishandling that nearly cost a 14-year-old student their life.

This case makes one thing clear: school st*bbings are not new. They have been happening for years—and it is the institutions themselves that have repeatedly avoided accountability.

The silencing of parents ends here. Read the entire thread for the full insane story!

A freshman student at Boswell High School in the Eagle Mountain–Saginaw Independent School District (EMS ISD) was st*bbed in the back with a serrated kitchen knife by another student during the school day. The blade fully penetrated the student’s back, later determined by medical professionals to be in close proximity to a major artery. The student also suffered a punctured lung and broken rib.

The video was sent to me by the mother of the victim. In the video, you can see her son walking down the hall with a 5 inch steak knife in his back. At this point, he did not know he had been st*bbed and was likely in shock. The student who attacked him is the African American boy in the turquoise hoodie who can be seen at the beginning of the video. According to the mom, “He st*bbed him in the back, punched him in the face three times, and then said to my son, ‘How do you like that, you little b*tch?’”

“A Coach approached the situation and instead of sitting my son down, Keeping him still, and calling emergency and putting the school on lockdown, this Teacher/Coach walked my Son down a top-floor hallway during a lunch rush. Then my son was mocked and filmed by Students of Baswell”

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On September 21, 2022, shortly after being dismissed from class for lunch, the student was attacked in a school hallway. According to the victim’s account, the assailant approached from behind, st*bbed him in the back, then moved in front of him and punched him in the face multiple times while verbally taunting him. Due to a documented vision condition, the victim did not see the attacker approach and initially believed he had been punched, not st*bbed.

After the as*ault, the victim was escorted by a coach from the top floor of the school, through crowded hallways and down multiple flights of stairs to the nurse’s office. During this time, other students filmed him on their phones and commented that there was a knife in his back. The victim remained unaware that he had been st*bbed. Again, he was likely in shock.

According to the victim and the mother, her son was searched and his backpack was rummaged through while he sat on a bed with a knife in his back. He was treated as if he was the attacker. This is while he was in a very fragile state.

“My son’s safety was the least of their concerns!”

Principal Blue took the victims backpack and dumped out the contents, then searched her son while demanding that he sit up straight.

The victim asked “why are you treating me this way?” The principal stated that he was looking for a knife on the victim. All the while, the knife was still in his back. It was STILL at this time that the victim did not realize he had been st*bbed. He later described the feeling as a “strange tingly sensation” and thought that he had just been punched very hard in that area.

The EMTs later confirmed with the parents that any movement could have k*lled their son. The surgeon also confirmed that the placement of the knife meant that their son had a very high chance of bleeding to d*ath.

The family pursued meetings with school administrators, filed grievances, and provided documentation raising concerns about staff actions, safety protocols, and post-incident support. District responses consistently cited confidentiality laws, including FERPA and Texas Education Code provisions, to limit disclosure of information about staff discipline or internal evaluations.

In correspondence dated November 15, 2024, the district’s legal counsel stated that the district had investigated the matter, acted appropriately under the circumstances, and complied with all legal requirements. The letter asserted that the district reviewed allegations, cooperated with law enforcement, and believed staff actions were reasonable given the information available at the time.

There was no policy change.
There was no apology.
There was no remorse.
There was no accountability.
The attacker was allowed probation.
The family’s financial burden reached nearly 6 figures

The school was allowed to continue on with no accountability and was able to escape public scrutiny.

The family cannot sue the school due to sovereign immunity.

The mother told me that the school administration sent an email to all families, stating they had “spoken to her and that her son was stable”.

This was a lie.

“They never spoke to us to get that info. At the time the email was sent, the surgeon told us that our son was going to die. The school refused to allow us to see the footage of our son being st*bbed”.

She also reported to me that the attacker did not get to return to Boswell, but that he has siblings likely still attending the school.

She stated that her son’s guidance counselor and Boswell's Intervention counselor never reached out to her son after the incident.

“The school set up counseling and support for the students/staff members affected by the stabbing but never once reached out to my son to show that they cared or to see if he was OK. They did say that we would have truancy against us if we didn't bring him back to school”

In 2024, the victim’s father gave a speech before the school board asking for accountability from the school. He stated that this was still effecting his son and that even with the grievance process, there was no policy change and no accountability from the school.

During his speech, he stated “In June 21, 2023, we were notified that a student had confessed to
being involved with our son's st*bbing. We immediately took this to the district. We were told that they were unable to identify this student that spoke those words. Where was the camera footage?
Why was it not reviewed? The time and location of the confession was documented and provided so this student could easily be located! How could you ignore this?”

The following is a statement that was provided to the school board and staff members by the parents, after only being allowed five minutes to speak in front of the board.

Trauma surgeon - "I'm going to be very black and white with you, very honest. That is a serrated kitchen knife in his back and it is all the way in touching his main artery. When I remove that knife, it is most likely going to hit that main artery and your son is going to bleed to death. I will not be able to stop the bleeding and he will die. You need to tell your son how much you Love him right now, he is crashing fast, we have to go."

Part 1 of statement

Part 2 of statement. (End thread)

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