Posted on 05/15/2024 10:37:53 AM PDT by Morgana
A ten-year-old boy took his own life after suffering horrific bullying at school, with his family saying he had warned officials 20 times about the ongoing abuse.
Sammy Teusch, from Greenfield, Indiana, died by suicide on May 5 and according to his family, was being bullied up until the night he passed away.
His parents Sam and Nichole say he was both physically and emotionally bullied at school, with Sammy being recently beaten up on a school bus.
The bullying started last year when he was in elementary school, and followed him to Greenfield Intermediate School.
According to the family, Sammy told teachers and other staff about the bullying 20 times.
His father Sam told WTHR: 'They were making fun of him for his glasses in the beginning, then on to make fun of his teeth. It went on for a long time.'
'I held him in my arms. I did the thing no father should ever have to do, and anytime I close my eyes, it's all I can see.
The abuse then got physical, Sam added: 'He was beat up on the school bus, and the kids broke his glasses and everything.
'I called the school, and I'm like, 'What are you doing about this? It keeps getting worse, and worse, and worse. And it's not getting any better. In fact, it's getting worse.'
Speaking to 21alive, his grandmother Cynthia said: 'They can’t just say they have zero tolerance because that doesn’t mean there is zero tolerance about bullies.
'Their zero tolerance means that they don’t have responsibility for it. People trust their kids to the school, but now that trust is breaking down.'
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I agree. Much of technology today is poison to young kids.
And I am not saying I would have been different. I would have been even more into it. I thank God they didn’t have video games when I was a kid, because I would have been immersed in it.
Kids no longer have the cajónes to fight back against bullying, our society has raised a bunch of snowflakes who put too much emphasis on social
media content.
Your child is being taunted and called names, you call the school. You child is being assaulted, you take them out. No ifs, ands or buts. Take your child out of the place where they are being hit.
This is not "preparation for life". If, as an adult, you are assaulted you call the police. If a co-worker shoves you into the wall and hits you they are fired.
That is the way the adult world works.
A kid fighting back today would be the one to wind up in the most trouble - along with their parents.
My brothers and I ran into a few bullies in school. We were told to take our part and stand our ground. The thugs would sometimes run in packs and Dad taught us if they gang up on you let them know you would hunt them down one at a time and knock their teeth out if they chose to do the pack attack. His other advice, inflict as much pain and damage as you can in a gang fight and fight as dirty as you have too since they chose to fight dirty.
All of our fights with bullies were one on one except for two. The neighborhood bully who I had thumped twice already and was my age decided to attack a younger and smaller brother of mine on the playground. When I confronted him after school he picked up a huge board and went after the same little brother who was standing there at the confrontation. When he picked up the board me and another brother bum rushed him and thumped him, he never bothered us again after getting a broke nose. His cousin stood there with him wailing for help and we essentially told him, come on lets go. He declined.
The other time my brother and a black guy who wasn’t from the area, he moved to the KY mountains from the big city of Louisville and had a mouth on him that ran like a machine gun. All the kids, including the other blacks hated this guy. Him and my brother were on a field trip and said black guy decided to pick on my brother and my brother picked back and ground up a candy bar in the dudes afro which brought threats of retaliation at school tomorrow.
Me, my brother and the black dude were all in the same history class and before class with the teacher out of the classroom the mouthing started and eventually the black guy threw a punch on my brother and off they went. I watched, it wasn’t my fight. Dude had my brother in a headlock for a long time and he was about to break free of the headlock and the black dude started hollering for others to grab my brother to which I stood up and said that ain’t happening, we clear and they stood down. At which point my brother broke free and received a swift kick in the balls by the black dude which with the adrenalin he didn’t react but did throw a left cross and an upper cut that connected and sent the black reeling and staggering backward and then he caught two more right crosses and was about to hit the floor and the teacher walked in. For their trouble they got 5 licks with a paddle from the asst. principal and my brother got the nickname Iron Balls.
1. Much of today’s bullying takes place on social media. Remove the kid’s social media, and the power of the bullies declines.
2. Parents don’t need the school’s permission to go after bullies. They can go directly to the police (absent a Soros DA who won’t prosecute). And they can hire a pit bull lawyer to go after the school and the parents of the bullies.
I'm serious.
Don't give them the chance to grow up into something worse.
‘Their zero tolerance means that they don’t have responsibility for it.
= = =
My kids went through this back in 1995 or so. physically bullied, verbally harassed on the bus... and more.
School says: We have ‘zero tolerance.’
That means they said the words, and any fall-out magically vanished.
I’ll stop here. My kids are still recovering from this, over 20 years ago. And my wife and I are not over it.
You’re courageous to admit you sinned as a child. We’ve all been there. I think this might help in dealing with the shame.
What does the Bible say about forgiving yourself?
https://www.gotquestions.org/forgiving-yourself.html
Good bless you!
The parents said they had 20 conversations with the school about the bullying going on against their son. Why, after 3,4,10 calls, and the bullying continued, did they not pull the kid out of the school?
Collective/gang/bullies v innocent individual. I stood up for a small, socially awkward individual in elementary school who was being emotionally bullied. Teachers encouraged me to look after him. I did. I wonder whatever happened to Eugene?
Ping
A quick search shows that he is still alive in the town we grew up in. (haven’t seen him since elementary school)
He was a good looking kid. The teeth problem would have worked itself out or been fixed by the time he got into high school. I wonder what the demographic makeup of his ‘bullies’ is.
Victim-blaming garbage.
Should have pulled him out of school and do the homeschooling online approach. It’s apparently very simple; I know someone who does this. It takes about an hour a day for the parent.
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