Bullying body count: 15-year-old gay teen commits suicide
By: Pam Spaulding Monday October 17, 2011 1:20 pm
http://pamshouseblend.firedoglake.com/2011/10/17/bullying-body-count-15-year-old-gay-teen-commits-suicide/How many have to die before people can collectively agree that the responsibility lies with parents, teachers, school administrators and students to stop the bullying? Being a target of bullying is not a "rite of passage" or a lesson to "man up" — it's about a vulnerable teen feeling that school is an unhospitable environment. (Ottawa Citizen):
Jamie Hubley documented the final month of his life in heartbreaking and painful detail.
The 15-year-old boy, a son of Kanata South Councillor Allan Hubley and his wife, Wendy Barber, kept a blog in which he wrote openly of his struggles with depression and the challenges of being an openly gay teenager.