School sued following harassment suicide

There used to be a social taboo against school harassment. Maddeningly, it now seems almost taboo even to remember this taboo. The blight of serial bullying has grown in probably every community in America.

Kentucky has become the epicenter of this phenomenon. This should be of little surprise, because Kentucky seems to be the one state where separation of life and school has been gutted more than any other. There's likely no other place in America that puts such pressure on students to satisfy the education system at all costs. Dissent from school is no longer tolerated.

If students are victimized at school, they have no alternate outlet. Everything comes from within school, and nothing is allowed to be outside it.

A 13-year-old student at Kentucky's Allen Central Middle School was harassed repeatedly by schoolmates until he committed suicide by shooting himself. School officials neglected to tell his parents he was being harassed.

Every person who hears about this tragedy should be outraged.

Now the victim's parents are suing school officials for their refusal to stop the harassment.

I want to know why the assailants who harassed the boy are not charged with murder. Their malicious behavior caused his suicide, so it's murder. End of story.

"Zero tolerance" is a policy that severely punishes almost everything - except bullying. With all the "zero tolerance" Nazism in our schools - in which kids get expelled over drawings of nail clippers - innocents are punished. Bullies are not. "Zero tolerance" advocates know this.

The system lives to protect serial harassers, because it's run by those who were troublemakers in their own younger years.

(Source: http://www.kypost.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=a6802fc5-26b0-4522-9de9-ab1240c7e63e)