An 8-year-old boy has written a heartfelt letter to Santa Claus asking for help to stop his twin sister from being bullied at school. Mom Karen Suffern said she wept openly when she read the letter written by her son Ryan in which he told Santa he was willing to forgo any Christmas presents this year if the bullies would leave his sister alone. Ryan and twin sister Amber have just started in the third grade at Rocky Mount Preparatory in North Carolina. Mom Karen Suffern said she wept openly when she read the letter her son Ryan had written in which he told Santa he was willing to forgo any Christmas presents this year if the bullies at school would leave his sister Amber alone
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Mom Karen Suffern says she wept openly after reading the heartfelt letter written by her son
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Ryan, 8, wrote to Santa Claus asking that instead of a present at Christmas he would prefer if the bullies at school would stop picking on his twin sister
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Amber is almost twice her brother size and has attention-deficit disorder
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Their mom now plans to speak to teachers and the parents of the bullies at Rocky Mount Preparatory in North Carolina
Suffern said her daughter has never mentioned being teased, but Ryan has told her that in gym class kids laughed at @placeholder because she couldn’t do the bear crawl on the floor and that she has been teased in class and told she must be adopted because she is multiracial.
Posnanski said he was moved by @placeholder's letter because it reminded him of his childhood.