According to the mother, her son, Alex, has been deaf since he was a little baby.\u00a0He has been bullied his whole life due to his cochlear implant and surgery scars. This latest incident, however, has the whole community up in outrage. The brave student\u00a0noticed that his backpack, filled with his homework, a tablet, school supplies, money and a cochlear implant battery, was missing. He immediately went to the teachers who reviewed school security footage and discovered that it was taken by two teenage boys.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThose students think it\u2019s OK to bully a deaf student, but it\u2019s not. It\u2019s not OK to bully someone who is disabled, deaf or\u00a0hard of hearing,\u201d his mom said. \u201cOr anyone for that matter.\u201dThe two boys had dumped his backpack into a toilet. The amazing mom also\u00a0received an outpour of support as the image of his backpack in the toilet went viral on the internet. Her son received support from many, including some hard of hearing people.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI wanted to thank all of my friends and those who wrote me for supporting me. I am very happy. It made me feel like I\u00a0am not alone,\u201d the deaf student said about the kind people who supported him. \u201cThey said they were here supporting me and they know how it feels to be deaf. So I\u2019m very happy.\u201d Alex\u00a0and his mom still made the hard decision to pull him out of his school. They felt it was better for him to transfer away for his safety.<\/span><\/p>\n

The high school he is transferring to has many hard of hearing students who say it is much \u00a0better. \u00a0\u201cI have friends who are hard of hearing that go there and they say it\u2019s good. They get a lot of support and they don\u2019t get bullied,\u201d Alex said hopeful for his new school. Alexand his mother hope sharing their story will prevent bullying in the future.\u00a0Today was my kid \u2014 tomorrow it will be somebody\u2019s else\u2019s,\u201d his mother said, fearful of what may happen to other kids.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the mother, her son, Alex, has been deaf since he was a little baby.\u00a0He has been…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3560","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-trending","8":"cs-entry","9":"cs-video-wrap"},"yoast_head":"\n