'School disciplinary incident ends with teen's suicide'

[Dick Whitman]

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 **** 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'

 

[Dick Whitman]

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.

 

[User 11148]

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

A Suicide in Texas

 

[MisterCreosote]

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

 

[Dick Whitman]

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

Yep.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

Read this today. Just an awful story.

I was thinking a lot about the role of the school and the police. Many of these stories come from the opposite perspective...the humiliated girl and the shame she goes through. Those stories are very legitimate.

So, did the school and the cops do anything wrong? There is not an easy solution.

 

[QYFW]

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.

 

[Dick Whitman]

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.

 

[QYFW]

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 **** out of me.

 

[JC]

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

Girls are worse

 

[HC]

Girls are worse

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

 

[outofplace]

Girls are worse

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

 

[Ace]

This is why it's important to make sex seem evil and dirty.

I mean, God didn't have sex. He just talked some 13-year-old girl into getting pregnant.

He'd be in the Poin thread now if there were photos.

 

[JohnHammond]

I'm sure free-for-all sexting will stop suicides. #RevAce

 

[User 11148]

Boys are incredibly vicious to each other.

Just you wait, 'Enry 'Iggins, just you wait.

 

[Ace]

I'm sure free-for-all sexting will stop suicides. #RevAce

I'll put you down in favor of 16-year-olds bragging about sex with other 16-year-olds deserving to die.

You, SQGEE and cookie might want to build an ark and drown everyone on the Poin thread.

 

[User 11148]

I'll put you down in favor of 16-year-olds bragging about sex with other 16-year-olds deserving to die.

That -- what you just wrote -- is ****ing disgusting.

 

[Ace]

That -- what you just wrote -- is ****ing disgusting.

If JH meant something different, I'd love to hear it.

 

[User 11148]

If JH meant something different, I'd love to hear it.

"Deserving to die" my ass. You're disgusting.

 

[Ace]

"Deserving to die" my ass. You're disgusting.

See, the thing is, I don't think that, but John Hammond's response seems to indicate that.

If putting his response in plain terms disgusts you, I'm sorry.