'School disciplinary incident ends with teen's suicide'

School and police in suburban Chicago call 16-year-old into the office to talk to him about reports that he had shared a sex video of him and a classmate. No intention to actually prosecute, it sounds like. Just to scare the shit out of him. (He only had audio, as it turns out.) In the meeting - held without his parents or a lawyer present - they mentioned putting him on the sex offender registry.

Teen leaves the meeting, walks out of the building, heads downtown, and jumps 53 feet to his death. No prior depression or disciplinary issues.

School disciplinary incident ends with a Naperville teen's suicide: 'They scared him to death'

 

I remember a similar story a few years ago in BASW about a teen-ager who got in an argument about homework at the kitchen table with his parents, then walked upstairs to his room and killed himself.

Can't wait to have teen-agers.

 

Something like this would never happen in higher education ...

A Suicide in Texas

 

They really just lost track of him between calling his mom and her getting there to pick him up?

 

Yep.

 

I think the mention of the sex offender registry is a little harsh, assuming this was typical teen sex. There have been a couple recent incidents where schools brought in the cops to arrest autistic kids. And there was the young kid who got knocked out and left unconscious at school who went home and killed himself. All these instances make the prospect of sending my kids into school each day -- where, in theory, they are protected -- more frightening than usual.

 

Mine is in second grade. Boys are incredibly vicious to each other.

 

My son is a special-needs student in kindergarten, but he's very in touch with his emotions. Scares the shit out of me.

 

Girls are worse

 

Absolutely. The worst hurts I have received were from other girls.

 

Beat me to it. It isn't even close.