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On the one hand, supervising bathrooms too closely often brings comments about staff being voyeurs. It's a tough call.
But the coverup is, in my view, grounds for criminal charges of, at the very least, negligence.
I read the news article. From my own experiences in a far more affluent district, the schools turn a blind eye towards situations of repeated abuse of children who are physically or mentally weaker than others. In my case, in second grade my mother was more or less forced to seek a psychiatrist for me. The second grade teacher did little or nothing to educate the children in her class about the right way to treat a student who seems to have trouble fitting in.
In 9th Grade I was chased through the school and almost killed by a kid trying to clock me with a bicycle chain. My parents were asked to remove me from the school. That didn't happen only because I refused to cooperate with that travesty. 10th Grade was much better. Actually other than my father's death in January 1973 one of my better years of school. Luckily, my life has gone rather well since the end of law school, though the educational years had some good and some bad years.
My point in all this is that the issue is not the supervision of bathrooms. It's appropriate guidance of children in how to treat others. Though to some extent "boys will be boys" the child on the wrong end of mistreatment should be given some solace and encouragement at a minimum.
To follow through with hanging oneself would seem to take a considerable amount of willpower. There is an extremely strong, deeply rooted survival instinct in human beings, particularly when it comes to breathing. I am shocked that such a young child would be able to conceive of such an act, and even more shocked that he would follow it through to its conclusion.
There are far more suicide attempts than there are completed suicides. It is devastating that a young child would have the mindset needed to even attempt such an act. If only he could have been unsuccessful.
OMG. They didn't TELL the mother what had happened??? What's WRONG with those people?
I hope they sue them and win a huge settlement, and the people in charge at that school are summarily fired, if they aren't already.
Not telling the mother what happened is unconscionable. Plus she wouldn't have made him go back to school, she could have had the little criminals expelled from the school as safety for her son.
OMG. How horrible. I can't believe the school did that.
(I am wondering if the boy killed himself because of the fear and shame of having to go back to school.)
My heart bleeds for the mother. She'll never be the same. She's lost her little boy in a horrific way.
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OMG. They didn't TELL the mother what had happened??? What's WRONG with those people?
I hope they sue them and win a huge settlement, and the people in charge at that school are summarily fired, if they aren't already.
Not telling the mother what happened is unconscionable. Plus she wouldn't have made him go back to school, she could have had the little criminals expelled from the school as safety for her son.
OMG. How horrible. I can't believe the school did that.
(I am wondering if the boy killed himself because of the fear and shame of having to go back to school.)
My heart bleeds for the mother. She'll never be the same. She's lost her little boy in a horrific way.
The school didn't know.
The story has changed significantly since the first article written.
The parents of an 8-year-old student who killed himself after being persistently bullied can move forward with a lawsuit against the Cincinnati school district that alleges wrongful death and other charges, a federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday.
The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court Appeals said Gabriel Taye's parents had established “reckless behavior” that prevents school officials from receiving governmental immunity for their handling of the case.
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I read the news article. From my own experiences in a far more affluent district, the schools turn a blind eye towards situations of repeated abuse of children who are physically or mentally weaker than others. In my case, in second grade my mother was more or less forced to seek a psychiatrist for me. The second grade teacher did little or nothing to educate the children in her class about the right way to treat a student who seems to have trouble fitting in.
In 9th Grade I was chased through the school and almost killed by a kid trying to clock me with a bicycle chain. My parents were asked to remove me from the school. That didn't happen only because I refused to cooperate with that travesty. 10th Grade was much better. Actually other than my father's death in January 1973 one of my better years of school. Luckily, my life has gone rather well since the end of law school, though the educational years had some good and some bad years.
My point in all this is that the issue is not the supervision of bathrooms. It's appropriate guidance of children in how to treat others. Though to some extent "boys will be boys" the child on the wrong end of mistreatment should be given some solace and encouragement at a minimum. I received a rep on the original iteration:
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I read the news article.....
but no comments on this post. I would think that a first-hand comment from a living person rather than a well-meaning comment from someone not involved would merit discussion. OP quoted below:
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Originally Posted by james777
I put this in the education forum because it is clearly a discipline, lack of supervision, and safety issue at this school.
While I didn't comment on the original news story it does raise some serious questions:
How could an eight year old show no marks from a beating severe enough for him to lose consciousness?
And how was that large a group of eight year olds unsupervised? Did the mother see any marks? and
Did the mother care?
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