BALTIMORE (WBFF) - A Baltimore County couple says they're being forced to make a drastic decision to keep their son safe.

Jared Haga is a fourth grader at Pine Grove Elementary in Baltimore County. His family says last fall he began to be bullied.

"Kids threaten me and throw things at me," Jared told Fox45.

Jared's mother and stepfather, Josh and Nicole Landers, say they don't feel safe sending their son to school. Since the bullying began, they've filed four complaints with the school. But the parents say things took a terrible turn, when Nicole found her son sitting in a corner of their home with a note on his chest. Jared had written "Kill me. I mean nothing. I have isues(sic)."

"I grabbed him up in my arms, and held him tight," says Nicole Landers. "You just grab them up and hold them tight tell them that their life does have meaning."

The next day, the Landers went to the school.

"I pleaded with them," says Josh Landers. "I said, if you had a child that wrote this, what would you do? I'm begging you to take action. I'm begging you."

Baltimore County Public Schools declined an interview with Fox45 to discuss its bullying policy. But we did receive a statement that read, "Our commitment is providing safe and orderly learning environments for each of our 113,000 students through proactive and comprehensive staffing, policy, equipment, technology, and training. We take safety seriously, and we know that this priority is essential to helping every student grow and thrive."

Following the bullying reports, Jared's school did draw up a safety plan. But the family says the bullying continued because the bully wasn't disciplined or removed from the class, even after the parents say Jared was punched in the face and thrown in mud.

There's just a complete breakdown in discipline across the board as the schools try to just suppress disciplinary events versus deal with disciplinary events, so that they don't rack up on their ratios, their suspension ratios," says Nicole...

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