HUNTSVILLE, IN - Eight-year-old Jamal Haskins of Dubya Elementary School has been taunted on the playground since first grade.

"The other kids call me stupid," explains Jamal. "And retarded."

It’s not so much the name-calling as it is the lack of clarification that bothers the local boy.

"Well, I mean, if they’re just calling me stupid because I do or say dumb things, that’s one thing. But if I’m really retarded, like, if they know something about me that I don’t, and I’m actually mentally disabled, well, that’s just wrong to make fun."

A classmate of Jamal, Pamela Dawber, 9, offered one possible solution: "He’s a stupid retard."