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http://www.thebostonchannel.com/cnn-news/19141470/detail.html

BOSTON -- Sirdeaner Walker, 44, has been surrounded by family after discovering her son, Carl Walker-Hoover, 11, hanging by an extension cord in the third-floor landing of the family's Northampton Avenue home in Springfield.

Walker said her boy, upset yet again over another bullying episode at school, had committed suicide.

"They were always saying, 'you're gay, you must be gay, you act like a girl,'" said Walker.

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[chite.livejournal.com]

In my case, my parents did intervene, and the school intervened, and it got worse. It's almost like there's no way to win when you've become the target, except to brass it out and live through it.

Ironically, the person who bullied me the most in Junior High became an honest to goodness friend in high school. Life can be weird that way. I just wish someone could tell kids that it doesn't last forever.

[offbalance.livejournal.com]

Wow. Did this person ever explain to you why he/she felt it necessary to make your life hell? Did they apologize?

[chite.livejournal.com]

It was really weird. One day we ended up sitting next to each other in class, and he started talking to me like I was a regular person and not the object of his bullying for two years. I think it had been more than a full year since I had spoken to him.

I think he had some major problems of his own. (actually that's pretty obvious.) It kind of became this unspoken thing--that was a crappy time in everyone's life and now it's 2 years later and we're all different people now. I never pressed the issue.

[used_songs]

I'm a middle school teacher and I've seen this happen, too. I've had students who were bullied and the teachers, counselors, and admins got involved and it still didn't stop - it just went underground. It's so frustrating!

On the other hand, this year I persistently worked the system (write ups, parent phone calls, counseling referrals) on a student who has been harassing others for 2 years at our school; this student picked on a kid in my class last month, calling him gay. When I wrote the referral, since I had all of the background documentation, the admins were able to get the student placed at the alternative campus and now he has been reassigned to his home campus. So it can be done.

[alchemia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in Junior High, I was being bullies by among others, the kid of someone on the school board. My parents intervened, but it was like going up against the Malfoys, except that they had the Principal/Albus in their pocket; it made things worse and the principal tried to expel me. We had to have a court hearing over it! (we won, which just meant my records were cleared, but nothing was ever done about the actual bullying problem).