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'Getting Real' About Bullying-Related Suicides

Started by Natasha, April 21, 2009, 12:55:07 PM

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April 21, 2009, 12:55:07 PM
'Getting Real' About Bullying-Related Suicides

http://www.bilerico.com/2009/04/getting_real_about_bullying-related_suic.php
4/21/09

Two weeks ago another young life was silently lost in our nation's schools. Eleven year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover killed himself after enduring months of anti-gay bullying at his school in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Carl's shocking suicide is one of the latest in a growing trend. Just last week, parents in Ohio filed a lawsuit against the school district where their son, Eric Mohat, was also subjected to ongoing anti-gay harassment before, he too, committed suicide. The pervasiveness of bullying, and more specifically bullying targeted at boys who do not fit into the narrow box of masculinity proscribed for them, has raised alarms among educators and mental health professionals for over a decade.
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