Hacking Suicide
This is so wrong. I cannot even explain it right now… You must read it.
All I know is if that was my kid, I’d be at that school columbine style. Grrr. This shit makes me so mad. Crooked fucking High School administrators.
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This story is more bizzare than upsetting to me. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? The school certainly didn’t hand the kid a noose; he broke the rules and was punished accordingly. A 13-year-old should understand that a suspension isn’t the end of the world, and he should be able to deal with it. I was suspended around age 10 and I dealt. It wasn’t fun, but I learned my lesson.
You do the crime, you do the time.
And you have to wonder about what kind of expectations the parents had set up for this over-achieving kid that he’d “rather be dead than go to jail. ” Was he really afraid that as a 13-year-old he’d be sent to a max security prison and be raped by a large black man named Tiny, or did he feel he’d drastically let down his parents by being an average kid who occasionally fucks up and gets suspended instead of still being the type A paragon of mature childhood he’d been up until then?
If every one of us who’d ever been suspended or been told by an authority figure that we belonged in jail went and hung ourselves, the US population would be significantly smaller.
It was a truly sad death, but not necessarily the school’s fault.
i have to agree. its tragic that this boy hung himself, but its most def. not the school’s fault. in fact, if someone kills themself, its no one’s fault but their own. i can understand in cases where a person is acting suicidal and people ignore it, then you can say they have some responsibility, but people need to be responsible for themselves. a lot of lawsuits in this country would be laughed at if lawyers had some respect for personal responsibility. everyone always wants to be the victim, but no one steps up and accepts the fact that we are all responsible for our own choices. if we make bad choices, then its our own fault.
i am sorry we lost this boy at such a young age. the parents should channel their grief in an appropriate way instead of blaming the school.
After reading the comments, id have to agree that is is *not* the schools fault, *BUT* the school should have a larger responsibility than they admitted to. I mean, if I was the *asshole* that suspended him I might be hanging myself tonight… I dunno, people dont take responsibility for anything in this country (especially GOV or EDU).
Drink the Kool-Aid
This story is more bizzare than upsetting to me. Whatever happened to personal responsibility? The school certainly didn’t hand the kid a noose; he broke the rules and was punished accordingly. A 13-year-old should understand that a suspension isn’t the end of the world, and he should be able to deal with it. I was suspended around age 10 and I dealt. It wasn’t fun, but I learned my lesson.
You do the crime, you do the time.
And you have to wonder about what kind of expectations the parents had set up for this over-achieving kid that he’d “rather be dead than go to jail. ” Was he really afraid that as a 13-year-old he’d be sent to a max security prison and be raped by a large black man named Tiny, or did he feel he’d drastically let down his parents by being an average kid who occasionally fucks up and gets suspended instead of still being the type A paragon of mature childhood he’d been up until then?
If every one of us who’d ever been suspended or been told by an authority figure that we belonged in jail went and hung ourselves, the US population would be significantly smaller.
It was a truly sad death, but not necessarily the school’s fault.
i have to agree. its tragic that this boy hung himself, but its most def. not the school’s fault. in fact, if someone kills themself, its no one’s fault but their own. i can understand in cases where a person is acting suicidal and people ignore it, then you can say they have some responsibility, but people need to be responsible for themselves. a lot of lawsuits in this country would be laughed at if lawyers had some respect for personal responsibility. everyone always wants to be the victim, but no one steps up and accepts the fact that we are all responsible for our own choices. if we make bad choices, then its our own fault.
i am sorry we lost this boy at such a young age. the parents should channel their grief in an appropriate way instead of blaming the school.
After reading the comments, id have to agree that is is *not* the schools fault, *BUT* the school should have a larger responsibility than they admitted to. I mean, if I was the *asshole* that suspended him I might be hanging myself tonight… I dunno, people dont take responsibility for anything in this country (especially GOV or EDU).
Drink the Kool-Aid