Posted on 08/13/2005 10:21:51 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Aug. 12, 2005 — A federal jury has ordered a Kansas school district to pay $250,000 to a former student tormented by school bullies.
"That's five years of my life that I had to live — just depressed, angry, scared," said the boy, Dylan Theno, 18, of Tonganoxie, Kan. "I can never get that back." Theno won the award Thursday after his family sued the Tonganoxie School District, claiming Theno had suffered years of bullying, and that school officials didn't attempt to stop the harassment.
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Good. I always hated the soft lib teachers who wouldn't do anything, more than the class jerks themselves.
A helluva precedent.
Do you read your town budget? That's pocket change.
It's taxpayer money, but still pennies to the school.
The worst part of this is not that someone sued for being bullied, it's that they had to use "gender-based harassment" to get some justice.
Apparently thugs can threaten you constantly unless they aren't PC.
You make a really good point. If the poor kid hadn't been called a "faggot" and they had simply beaten the hell out of him on a regular basis he would have been up the creek.
Without taking a position here, I'd at least like the story to be accurate.
I guess it never dawned on these morons TO SUE THE "BULLIES!" This is BS. It's time to start going after the perps NOT the people with the deep pockets. "Lawsuits" like this are all about money. Nothing else.
um...gender harrassment?
What he was picked on becaus he's a boy?
At least physically.
I just neutered the cat, now he's a liberal.
Maybe this is silly, but why didn't the parents do anything? Go to the school, talk to the administrators, talk to the bullys' parents or as a last resort change schools? Oh, that's right, no money in that.
When I was in Junior High School we there was a kid very much like this. He got beat up a lot. He got called a "fag" a lot.
To take your points in order...His mom II have no idea where the dad was) went to the school. She was informed by the Principal that they were doing all they could do and they were sorry. She then got physically chased from the school by the same band of kids that were beating up her son. It looked very much like a scene from "A Clockwork Orange".
The head bullies father was in prison. The head bullies mother was a prostitute and a drunkard. The mother of the bullied kid attempted to change schools but the district had a strict policy of adhearing to school boundaries.
As far as the money goes sometimes that is the ONLY way to get somebody's attention.
Better yet, is Dylan going to sue his parents (or maybe the city) for the times he was bullied while not in school?
What is the point of suing someone with no money when you will never recoup your court award?
Howzabout stopping what is going on when it's happening?
The worst part of this is not that someone sued for being bullied, it's that they had to use "gender-based harassment" to get some justice. Apparently thugs can threaten you constantly unless they aren't PC.Exactly. And the thing that made it "gender based" was that they called him homosexual names. That has implications too.
Hey...I'm all for that. I think the problem here was that the school had not minutes to stop it but years and refused to act.
A lot of districts now have "alternative schools" where they round up all the problems and keep them away from from decent people for 4 years (often less). That works for me too.
The safety of the child rests, ultimately, with the parents. A government agency didn't do it's job so they just sat back and watched?
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