Family says bullied 11-year-old told pals before killing herself

NY Post ^ | 11/03/2017 | Jackie Salo

[MrEdd]

Thats just pretentious posturing.
She may not be able to think of a way.

[xrmusn]

Situational awareness is difficult, unless the kid takes a different way home each day, and walks darn near in the middle of the street.
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I went through that as a kid. (Was only 5’7 and 125 at 17 when went in Navy) - parents moved a lot and I was always the BNG and to make it worse had an early Oct bday so was about a year younger than most classmates, nuns skipped me in 2nd grade so about 2 years younger etc..
However I was a ‘great’ baseball player so come baseball season I had a whole new bunch of ‘friends’ when it came to organized sports (initiated 2 LL teams in different towns) it took the ‘edge off’. Moved before Soph year and went out for FB and made it so those two years were ‘good’.
However, you got to feel sorry for a ‘small smart kid’ because he is an automatic target.

Small consolation and not trying to ‘demean’ the young ladies passing, BUT they are probably lucky she was raised well enough to NOT take the gun to school and ‘take care of business’.

I had access to guns back in the 50s but it never did cross my mind to shoot someone..And that is with an override of Cowboy shoot’emups so todays argument that too many guns in TV and movies leads to gun violence is just a bunch of crap (again)

Job one in parenting is to parent and instruct and lead by example which should be extended once in school.

[Yaelle]

I’m not understanding in your posts if you are being kind or nasty to me. I honestly can’t tell what the tone is.

[Twink]

I didn’t mean to come off nasty and if I did, I apologize. It’s hard to tell tone and I’ve experienced that so I hope you get I’m not being nasty.

[Leaning Right]

> It never was harmless teasing forty years ago unless it wasn’t you. <

Agreed. That’s why I put harmless in quotes in my original post.

[Claud]

Not sure why you reacted so strongly to what I said, because you basically validated my point...we all make choices.

And actually, one of our criteria was also to stay near family in the Philly suburbs. We are still only an hour away from them. We sold our previous house in South Jersey for a bit over 100k, where we were *a half hour away from Center City*. And no, it wasn’t in Camden, and no it wasn’t falling apart or in a bad neighborhood. It was just a very modest home. We were paying for it with my income alone—which was skimpier back then.

As far as “refusing to fight to change the schools”....yeah sure, I could beat my head against that wall if I wanted. My wife was a teacher in NJ, and she knows it from the inside.

OR we can use our precious time on God’s green earth to actually teach our kids and make a difference with them. If we’ve got energy left for a crusade to change the public schools then it can wait until when our kids are gone.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Suing the district costs only the taxpayers.”

Exactly. Sue the teachers/principal personally. Also the parents of the bully - who probably also are bullies themselves in some way(s). Having to shell out a few hundred thou or so might send a message to other parents to get their brats under control.

[metmom]

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