Bullied boy brain-damaged after suicide attempt; Deal is reached with family.

Anchorage Daily News ^ | February 8, 2004 | KATIE PESZNECKER

[skeptoid]

Bullied boy brain-damaged after suicide attempt SCHOOL DISTRICT: Deal is reached with family of gifted Central Middle School student.

By KATIE PESZNECKER Anchorage Daily News

(Published: February 8, 2004)

The Anchorage School District has settled out of court with a family that said their 14-year-old son tried to kill himself and was left permanently brain-damaged because of relentless bullying that school staffers knew about but didn't stop. School District officials and the family's attorney have declined to disclose any details of the settlement, including the amount of money being paid. The lawyer, Dennis Maloney, said the case is so outrageous that he has founded an anti-school-harassment group called Bye Bye Bullies and is helping to sponsor a conference on the subject this summer. Documents and testimony in the case, in an 8-inch-thick file in the Anchorage state courthouse, describe the boy as testing at highly gifted levels in math and science. In 1997, he enrolled at Central Middle School, a program that specializes in those areas. He was fascinated by rockets and airplanes, mastered rock climbing, and obtained his pilot's license at age 14.

[Tax-chick]

You could almost believe the whole point is to condition the young for prison life. I'm sure y'all can fill in the details ... I'm FReeping with the baby and it's hard to type!

[Paul C. Jesup]

U.S. Public Schools are some nothing more than torture chambers. And I am saying this from PERSONAL experience.

[Paul C. Jesup]

U.S. Public Schools are nothing more than torture chambers. And I am saying this from PERSONAL experience.