[jocon307]

Yes, I would have to say that was my thought too. When my daughter was very little I had her in day care, but I knew even then that had she been a different child that might not have been an option.

But it still sounds like the school administration really blew it on this one, knew it, and deserve to pay. From later in the article: "...But school records describing that incident and others involving Tom and classmates were destroyed by the school at the end of the 1998-99 school year under the district's policy, according to school officials. That was after the boy's attempted suicide but before the lawsuit was filed."

That sounds pretty suspicious to me. Whatever happened to the concept of "your permanent record". I certainly doubt any school rids itself of all student disciplinary records, or anything, that fast.

[3catsanadog]

Kids get a permanent record if they don't celebrate Gay Pride days at school or if they opt out of sex education.