James Rodemeyer, 14-year-old in anti-bullying PSA video, commits suicide over anti-homosexual taunts

[lynn82md]

A 14-year-old boy who once recorded an anti-bullying message was remembered at a vigil two days after taunts from his schoolmates led the teen to commit suicide

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[lynn82md]

It's true, what he said- no one does anything about it.
I agree

This time, the school staff's solution was to remove ME from the class that they gave me the most trouble. (if it was so easy to screw with my schedule, why couldn't they change the bullies' schedules and let me stay in art?)
I never had that problem, but my former neighbor...before she moved away and her daughters were attending a school not far from here...one of her twin daughters got attacked by a kid with a knife (this is a long story by the way that happened in 2009, something I blogged about on my personal journal because it made me so angry). Now, there were a couple fucked up things about this:
1. The school NEVER called the police about this. Here's a kid who got attacked by another with the intent to kill and they didn't call the fucking police because the boy didn't hurt the girl that much. I told her mother, as I drove her to the school when it happen, to call the police. The police were shocked that the school didn't notify them.
2. The kid NEVER got expelled, which is what would've happened in the US.
3. Like what happened with you, they changed her schedule so she wouldn't see the boy and she had to eat lunch by herself instead of the boy. Like they were punishing her, the victim, instead of the boy

[mermaid88]

They did that (made me sit a lunch table by myself) in fifth grade. Unluckily, the kid also was on my bus, and once when we were all going out to the buses after school let out, he slammed into my friend who wound up knocking me over, an I broke my glasses. Know what the teacher who saw it said to the bully?
..."you need to walk, don't run."
*makes a screwface* o.O