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USA Herald spoke with Brittany Black, then Associate Consultant for Elanco, who approached us with her family's story. For privacy reasons, Black's son is referred to only as "A." An Indiana mom says she was forced to move her son from Hamilton Southeastern School District (HSE), one of the top-rated school districts in the state, to one of the worst-rated, to protect him from escalating incidents of bullying including an incident that resulted in a concussion and 11 weeks of "cognitive rest." During the beginning of A's second-grade year in HSE, another child became angry during a soccer game and lashed out at A, head-butted, and tripped him. A hit his head on the hard playground surface. He complained of a "hot neck" to the teacher on playground duty, who sent him to the nurse. Black says the nurse gave A an ice pack for his neck and put him on the bus home instead of investigating the matter further. When A arrived home, he collapsed shortly after getting off the bus. Black described him as incoherent and she immediately took him to the Emergency Room where he was diagnosed with a concussion. She says A told her he was tripped and hit his head. Black says that when she called the school to tell them what happened, she was informed that A didn't tell the nurse he hit his head. That in the future, he needs to tell them that he has a head injury and needs concussion testing. He was in second grade at the time. "He's a child," said Black, "I wouldn't know to say that." She says the nurse told her she was trained in concussion protocols but still failed to recognize concussion symptoms. This moment was the culmination of two years of escalated incidents of bullying that the school failed to properly address. In addition to the physical injuries, A also experienced depression and underwent therapy, says Black. Before HSE, A was a child who looked forward to school. After HSE, he would cry on school days, telling his mom that he "didn't want to be here anymore." And now, nearly two years later, Black feels her son was a victim of discrimination on the part of the nearly all-white staff who failed to protect him. It's important to note that Black and her son are African Americans in a predominantly white area and that Indiana still has an overt KKK presence. In fact, in 2016, KKK recruiters were knocking on doors passing around fliers in Black's neighborhood.