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Mother of Raniya Wright Said She’d Complained About Bullying Before Fifth-Grader’s Death

“She would just always come home saying this one girl picking on her,” Wright said.

The mother of Raniya Wright, the South Carolina fifth-grader who died days after a classroom fight, told Good Morning America Monday that she’d complained to school officials about another student bullying her daughter for months—and that no action had been taken. “I’m very upset with the school system, starting out, only because of the fact that I’ve been complaining about the person that she fought numerous times to them,” Ashley Wright said, according to ABC News. “That’s what really breaks me down and makes me question to myself why nothing was never done up until now with this happening.”

Wright claims she told her daughter’s teacher that she was “leaving it in her hands to do something about it”—but that Raniya told her later that the teacher hadn’t done anything to resolve the problem. After spending days at different medical facilities, Wright died on Mar. 27—days after she was found unconscious at Forest Hills Elementary School. “My frustration is really towards the school system because I sent my child to school feeling like she can be protected while she's not in my care anymore,” she said, adding that “I’m thinking they got it handled, and they failed me.”

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South Carolina Fifth-Grader Dies After Classroom Fight

Victoria Albert