hi 🙂 Oddly, Sue Klebold never mentioned anything about Dylan bullying Adam Kyler.. Not only Kyler’s parents were informed but also a few different school personnel including Dylan’s school counselor. If this had been escalated that far, you would logically assume that the school would’ve notified Dylan’s parents of their son’s behavior and also, that there would have been something done about it especially seeing that Adam was a special needs student. Then again, this IS Columbine that we’re talking about here…….
“I asked witness Kyler how he knew suspect Klebold. He told me.along with his mother, that during November and December of 1998, suspect Klebold began harassing him at the school and had threatened him to the point where Adam’s mom, witness Susan Kyler reported the incident to school authorities who said they would take care of the problem and were aware of the problems caused by suspect Klebold. Witness Adam Kyler said after his mother reported this to the school authorities, he had no further problems with suspect Klebold.
Adam told his parents and the following school personnel about the
threats; Sid Keating, Brad Butts (Dylan’s school counselor), Rudy Martin, Mrs. Park, Peter Horvath, Kevin Land.
Witness Kyler also said he has not had any problems with any of the Trench Coat Mafia students except for suspect Klebold during this harassment. Witness Kyler said when suspect Klebold was harassing him, there were three other students, believed to be Trench Coat Mafia members, with suspect Klebold; however, they were not involved.
Witness Susan Kyler told me that witness Adam Kyler has some learning disability, and in fact went to a private school until the 8th grade. She said she believes this is the reason suspect Klebold was teasing and harassing her son, was due to his disability. She said witness Adam Kyler has been teased through most of the years he has been going to school. Witness Adam Kyler added
he doesn’t think he will be teased anymore at school; however, if he does, he just ignores whoever is harassing him, and doesn’t say anything back to them. This is how he handles the problem” [00243]
Basically, what this amounts to is either 1) The Klebolds were strangely never informed by the school. Which seems preposterous that the school would omit telling the parents of the bully. 2) Perhaps only Dylan’s school counselor spoke to him about it to get him to stop doing it. – or- 3) Sue decided to withhold this incident from her book (for whatever her reasoning). But I think intentionally omitting more clues of Dylan’s bad behavior in order to perhaps minimize missing of “red flags” with her son would seem to negate everything else she covered in her book with an honest “mother’s reckoning’ stance. If that is the case, she must have not known..and may still not know about it too (which is sad if she’s completely unaware about it). I would so like to address this with her sometime..
I cover Dylan’s harassment of Adam Kyler in this post here.