After daughter gets concussion, mom upset at delayed response from Raleigh school

Derisha Redmond said it took two hours too long for staff at Wilburn Elementary to let her know what happened.

Redmond says her daughter was roughed up in a fight at school.

She said the attack happened this past Wednesday. Her daughter was the one suspended.

"She has a concussion, she has a contusion on the left side of her head and swollen neck glands," Redmond said. "He was hitting her with a paper towel in the bathroom and then as they walk into the classroom he was still bothering her, so she hit him back."

She said her daughter told her that another student then threw her into the whiteboard by her neck, causing her daughter to hit her head on the way down. Redmond's daughter wrote down what happened.

Redmond said the altercation was around 1 p.m. on Wednesday, but she didn't hear about it until a few hours later.

"We did not find out about it until 3:30, and the only way we found out about it is because she was requesting to call her parents."

Redmond said a counselor let her go. Redmond filed a police report alleging simple assault, and she's waiting for the school's official report on what happened.

"So disappointing," Redmond expressed. "It hurts because we trust to take our kids to school and that they're going to be in good care and they're going to be taken care of."

A note from the daughter's doctor noted they do not feel it's safe for her to return to the classroom as long as that other student is present.

WRAL also reached out Wake County Schools and has yet to hear back.