The Story of One in a Million

In June, 2008, after suffering more than a year of physical violence and mental abuse, targeted towards his articles of faith, Jagmohan suffered a violent attack that fractured his left orbital bone. Rather than continue to suffer in silence, Jagmohan partnered with the Coalition to push New York Citys Department of Education to do more to protect Sikh students from harassment. In part, because of Jagmohans courage, in September 2009, the Department of Education announced a new Chancellors Regulation that defines, addresses and tracks incidents of bias-based harassment in NYC schools. The Regulation now protects more than 1.1 million students Sikh and non-Sikh alike.

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• human rights
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• new york
• new york city
• student
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• bully
• bullying
• harassment
• chancellor's regulation
• mayor bloomberg
• chancellor klein

[doosriradha]

@jasminek86

its very sad the little boy sustained such violence but im happy that there was something done about it. BRAVO

[doosriradha]

@Metalownz09 just to let you know

all sikhs carry the last name of Singh

he perhaps doesnt know how to act in society

because he is new to the country..let him adjust give him time

[Onkarr]

I love it - 04:40!

[simba1936]

BlingBinng, This is some thing we all non muslims ought to know faithfreedom(.)org thereligionofpeace(.)com

[BlingBinng]

@simba1936 thanks

[simba1936]

BlingBinng, I can only suggest to give them sikhnet website and let them read it. Or they can google sikhs that should also help.

[BlingBinng]

@simba1936 i could never aggree more, we need people to know who we are, like im being called a hindu at school, i say stop, im not a hindu, im a sikh, they say whats that, its a religion. we are known, but not known well enough.

[1stmerc]

sikh coalition, thank you for helping the sikh kids,

big respect to sonny singh and every one in the sikh coalition, one love

[khandajatt]

Nice guy or not....his religion should not have beeen disrespected!

If you dont like a black person would you call them a racial slur?? I highyl doubt it cause if you did they would whoop your ass

[Metalownz09]

i actually know this kid in person. hes not.. a very nice guy i can tell u that much. if kids dont know how to act in society, they are going to get picked on. but his sikh faith contributed to this. btw, sunny's last name is not singh. plus the who we are song was corny =(