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Las Vegas girl, 12, kills herself after being tormented by bullies at school for months
Daily Mail UK ^ | May 17, 2024 | Ruth Bashinsky

Posted on 05/17/2024 5:53:04 PM PDT by Morgana

A 12-year-old Las Vegas girl took her own life after being tormented by bullies at her middle school for months.

Flora Martinez, a sixth grader at Keller Middle School, killed herself on May 7 - eight months and one day after her transfer out of Duane D. Keller middle school was denied. Her funeral was on Thursday.

Her distraught parents are now blaming the Clark County School District for not doing enough to protect their daughter.

Grieving mother, Alice Martinez told News8: 'I feel like the school had a duty to keep her safe, while she was in their care and they just failed miserably.'

The young girl's parents said their daughter's peers started bullying her early into the school year. Flora's mother claimed both she and her child approached the assistant principal for help.

The mom then submitted paperwork for her daughter's transfer out of the middle school, but her request was denied in October.

Flora's mother said she had taken her daughter out of school for two weeks early in the school year when the bullying began, but when she returned to school it intensified.

'Everybody that had a hand in that request to transfer her failed her. If you’re a parent and you’re not outraged by this, you’re part of the problem too,' Martinez said.

Flora's dad Joshua Parker said: 'This wasn’t just one incident that happened, and you know, she decided to take her life.

'This was months and months and months of bullying that built up, and finally, she just couldn’t take it no more.'

The heartbroken father added: 'Look how hard it was on my daughter. My daughter was literally bullied to death.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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"The mom then submitted paperwork for her daughter's transfer out of the middle school, but her request was denied in October. "

The mom has now just won a major lawsuit.

1 posted on 05/17/2024 5:53:04 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana; metmom

Ping....


2 posted on 05/17/2024 5:55:10 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Morgana

Homeschooling really is an option.


3 posted on 05/17/2024 5:56:53 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Morgana

Maybe I missed it, but I didn’t see any explanation as to why she was being bullied.


4 posted on 05/17/2024 5:58:54 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Morgana
Clark County School District

That already sounds awful.

5 posted on 05/17/2024 6:00:51 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: Morgana

The girl is white

The school is mostly minorities

“ At Keller Duane D Middle School , 6% of students scored at or above the proficient level for math, and 22% scored at or above that level for reading.
The school’s minority student enrollment is 93%.”

https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/nevada/keller-duane-d-middle-school-262212#:~:text=Overview%20of%20Keller%20Duane%20D%20Middle%20School&text=The%20school‘s%20minority%20student%20enrollment,enrolls%20100%25%20economically%20disadvantaged%20students.


6 posted on 05/17/2024 6:02:59 PM PDT by SauronOfMordor (Either you will rule. Or you will be ruled. There is no other choice.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

There ought be no other.


7 posted on 05/17/2024 6:03:32 PM PDT by xoxox
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To: ClearCase_guy
Homeschooling really is an option.

Not when both parents need to work to cover household expenses.

8 posted on 05/17/2024 6:05:25 PM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: Morgana
The mom has now just won a major lawsuit.

No doubt.

9 posted on 05/17/2024 6:06:38 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of Air Force pilot. Both bitten by the aviation bug)
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To: Steve_Seattle

She did absolutely nothing to deserve bullying. She was just a vulnerable person that could not fight back against her tormentors.

That is how it is 99.999% of the time.


10 posted on 05/17/2024 6:06:39 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Morgana

Did they say how this 12 yr old comitted suicide? Did she hang herself? Poison or overdose? Tragic and I respect the family’s emotional needs but are child suicides always fully investigated for foul play?


11 posted on 05/17/2024 6:07:41 PM PDT by desertsolitaire (Perhaps the Great Ape Lawgiver in the series Planet of the Apes was correct in his view of humans?)
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To: Morgana

Just an observation, but bullying is back as the current fashion news?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bullying&ia=web

My question is where are the good kids that befriend these kids?


12 posted on 05/17/2024 6:08:03 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Morgana

This is tragic.

But I cant help but think it has been going on forever, and we are hearing about this stuff because of the improvements in communications technology.


13 posted on 05/17/2024 6:09:41 PM PDT by MV=PY (The Magic Question: Who's paying for it?)
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To: Steve_Seattle

The only thing the bullied do wrong is that they are good kids and the monsters resent them. That’s the only reason why bullying happens in school today.

If you’re a good kid, you better pick parents who will birth as a big and violent person, otherwise they will bully you to death.


14 posted on 05/17/2024 6:10:24 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: SauronOfMordor

Keller Duane D Middle School’s bullying score must be top shelf.


15 posted on 05/17/2024 6:12:01 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: PROCON

I don’t mean to be insensitive, but this is a concrete example of a child being bullied to death, perhaps because the parents both insisted on working so that they could avoid a crappy lifestyle of poverty. Looking at the situation now, perhaps they would prefer a crappy lifestyle of poverty — with their daughter.


16 posted on 05/17/2024 6:12:13 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's not "Quiet Quitting" -- it's "Going Galt".)
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To: Morgana

Yes, that’s nice but, why did they not just take her out of the school? Sometimes you just gotta do that.


17 posted on 05/17/2024 6:12:48 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: ClearCase_guy

It’s pretty much the ONLY option at this point.


18 posted on 05/17/2024 6:15:55 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: jocon307

Defying the authorities is about the only thing that could have been done here. If I had a job, that I could take my kid to work, I would do that. She could spend the 8 hours just focused on her education and do all the extra-curricular stuff after work.


19 posted on 05/17/2024 6:16:40 PM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Steve_Seattle

From http://news3lv.com/news/local/grieving-parents-say-daughter-died-by-suicide-because-of-school-bullying-las-vegas-clark-county-ccsd-12-year-old-southern-nevada-crisis :

“Almost every day after picking her up from school, a lot of times she didn’t want to talk,” said Parker. “Or she would tell me, ‘I had a problem with this girl and her group of friends. They’re constantly trying to fight me.’”...”These kids made remarks after she passed away. Afterward, they still were not satisfied,” said Parker.

Alice repeats some of the messages sent on social media about Flora’s death:

“Like I’m even though she’s dead. It makes me the happiest person in the world. She’s resting I can’t wait to see her and how so I can stomp on her head”
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Another article said that the bullying seemed to be unprovoked, and that one of the students said that Flora was always nice to everyone.


20 posted on 05/17/2024 6:18:13 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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