1 Ohio school, 4 bullied teens dead at own hand
The 16-year-old's last words, scribbled in English and her native Croatian, told of her daily torment at Mentor High School, where students mocked her accent, taunted her with insults like "Slutty Jana" and threw food at her.
It was the fourth time in little more than two years that a bullied high school student in this small Cleveland suburb on Lake Erie died at his or her own hand - three suicides, one overdose of antidepressants. One was bullied for being gay, another for having a learning disability, another for being a boy who happened to like wearing pink.
Now two families - including the Vidovics - are suing the school district, claiming their children were bullied to death and the school did nothing to stop it. The lawsuits come after a national spate of high-profile suicides by gay teens and others, and during a time of national soul-searching about what can be done to stop it.
Suzana Vidovic found her sister's body hanging over the front lawn. The family watched, she said, as the girls who had tormented Sladjana for months walked up to the casket - and laughed. "They were laughing at the way she looked," Suzana says, crying. "Even though she died."
Vidovic's parents say they begged the school to intervene many times. They say the school promised to take care of her. When the family tried to retrieve records about their reports of bullying, school officials told them the records were destroyed during a switch to computers. (BULLSHIT!!!!)
Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/10/08/20101008bullying-one-town-4-dead.html#ixzz11nbdkQ71
Where the hell is the empathy? What the hell is wrong with these kids? Oh yeah, that's right the parents....what about the parents of the bullies? I still hate Tweens.
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