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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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[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

My mother kept asking me what I'd done to the kids who harassed me. I didn't realize until I read this thread that sort of parental reaction was fairly common.

From what I can gather, a school trying to intervene in particular cases doesn't work all that well, but setting up an anti-bullying culture in the school does.

I recommend Frank Schaeffer's _Crazy for God_ for a fair degree of stereotype-busting. It's relevant to this thread because it describes a school with a proud tradition of no bullying. In Britain. In the 50s.