The boys in his class would tease him and call him a “little b---h.” By middle school, they were sharing pictures of him on Snapchat. One altered image had his face joined to the body of an orangutan.
When he asked them to stop, they didn’t. And when he reported it to school administrators, the taunting got worse.
That’s when Amie Gallo decided to take her son out of their neighborhood school, she said, and transfer him to the American International School of Utah, a nearby charter in Murray.
“He found a really good place there,” she said.