When children are at school, parents trust that teachers and administrators will protect kids and discipline them when necessary, but it doesn't always happen. Channel 6 News uncovered two cases at Westside High School where bullying went too far.

One of the incidents involved a swastika and the message “no Jews.” In another case, a student withdrew because he felt he was in danger at the school.

There’s a gray area between the law and the school rules and what parents can do.

"There was a swastika on it and a message that says ‘no Jews,’” says the student we called Mark who last week told his story of being bullied.

Channel 6 News obtained a copy of the hate note. The suspects wrote the words "no Jews" over the picture of a dead actor.

Since Mark's story aired, Alan Potash with the Anti-Defamation League says his phone has been ringing with calls from outraged parents. “That's a hurtful and hateful remark and should not be tolerated.”

Potash says he's been in touch with school administrators who couldn't comment on the incident, but says there are lessons all of us can learn. “Whether it's a religious, ethnic, racial incident, we need to educate students as well as faculty to make sure these things don't happen in our community and especially in our schools.”

Pam Kruse is coordinator for Parents United Against Bullying. She says bullies victimized her son Matthew, too. “So far as to be put into trash cans and rolled downhill on the way to the bus. He's been beaten up on his way home from the bus. It's run the gambit from verbal to physical.”

Kruse says seeing her son victimized taught her important lessons about combating bullying. She says parents need to get educated about the issue and if bullying is happening to your child, she says get involved and be heard at school. "It's not a rite of passage, it's not just kids being kids. It is really emotionally, socially damaging."

Kruse says she started Parents United Against Bullying because parents need a resource and support network with other parents. The PUAB Web site is mwpuab.com.

The Westside School Board meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday at the ABC Building, 909 South 76th Street. The public is invited to attend.

We learned over the weekend that prosecutors are considering additional charges in the bullying case for the swastika, those are in addition to the assault charges for the ipecac incident.

Two students allegedly put the substance in Mark’s drink and he became ill.