Bullying body count: 15-year-old gay teen commits suicide
By: Pam Spaulding Monday October 17, 2011 1:20 pm
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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.
I always asked that question myself when in school. You don't even need something like being gay for it to go way beyond something to shrug off. People just push 'n' push 'n' push and we get something like columbine but yet instead trying to stop what drives this people insane they still call it a right of passage in getting used to adulthood. Now what does that really say about our worthless society?