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Post by ♫anna♫ on Apr 23, 2009 15:02:43 GMT
www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517470,00.html QUOTE: Georgia Family Blames 11-Year-Old Boy's Suicide on Severe Bullying Wednesday, April 22, 2009 The family of an 11-year-old Georgia boy found hanged to death in his bedroom closet said that school bullies drove the child to suicide, MyFOXAtlanta.com reported. Relatives of Jaheem Herrera, a fifth-grader at Dunaire Elementary School in DeKalb, reportedly complained to school officials that he was being repeatedly teased and threatened by classmates. Jaheem was found dead in his bedroom closet last Thursday after class bullies severely taunted him throughout the day, the child's family said. A vigil for the 11-year-old was held Tuesday night.
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Post by Liberator on Apr 23, 2009 23:53:14 GMT
He's not the first and won't be the last. All too often traditional schools covertly side with the bullies because they tell children (especially boys, they care more about girls) to stand up for themselves and then punish them for lashing out. Sometimes it can be worse than just hitting back, and then the victims find themselves in trouble with the law for protecting themselves after a series of events but before the next can occur with a knife or a gun.
My sympathy goes with them. There are children whose over-reaction can attract bullying from kids who might not normally do it and need confidence that they will be protected, and confidence in themselves not to satisfy the bullies with hysterics either. Historically, boys have been expected and encouraged to under-react and deal with it themselves and got too little help, girls to over-react and expect somebody else to deal with the tiniest thing and got so much help that it sapped their confidence to handle anything at all. I was subject to a certain amount of possible bullying at both schools because I was afraid of what hitting back might start, but not nearly as much as the ones who could be relied on to burst into hysterics or tears or both. It soon showed that there wasn't the return.
On the other hand, there is bullying out of pure prejudice (and I got some of that too - and a lot more as an adult in a bar I lived next to, so used) That is a different thing altogether that no amount of cool is going to stop and should be stepped on instantly. In olden days there was some concept of a Fair fight between boys that, no matter how much I deplore the practice, at least gave a general feeling of contempt for 'pure' bullying as cowardly and unfair. Sadly, our day may have regressed to a kind of admiration for gangsterism that doesn't give a damn about ethics and only admires who has the most and who defies even what used to be warrior codes the most.
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 7, 2009 17:03:33 GMT
Sad, but true.
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