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We did not sue.
Arthur went through it properly, over about two hours, with a legal pad, and the answer is not close.
A Texas school district has governmental immunity.
There are narrow exceptions and none of them is this.
A claim would have had to be federal, and a federal claim for peer harassment requires — for a start — that the harassment be on the basis of a protected characteristic, and that the district be deliberately indifferent to it.
My son was not bullied for being anything.