The local news as of 6 am this morning, 10 last night and previous news casts over the last 2-3 days never said anything about bullying so that's probably just bs thrown in by Faux News. Police have somehow ruled out molestation and say the hook was low enough for him to reach it himself, however they are still at a loss as to what happened. Teachers claim he wasn't upset when he left the room to go to the restroom so they don't know either. The boy is still unconscious so police are saying (unless they're holding something back) that they can only wait until he's able to tell what happened.
Do you need a news cast to tell you what you already know?
Hanging a kid on a coat hanger is something a bully would do, and the logical cause here.
If the school is anything like the school I teach in, students must sign out to use the restroom. Would be easy enough to check the sign out books of all the classroom and see who was out of the classroom at the time of the incident.
It sounds like a common bullying technique - one that is frequently done as a “prank” by bigger children to smaller ones. It wouldn’t necessarily have been done as part of a larger pattern of persistant bullying, but might instead have been done in random passing.
Even if the hook were low enough for him to reach it himself, he would have had to have a step stool to back himself up and hang himself on it high enough to get his feet off the floor and choke. That seems unlikely, so I would venture to say a bigger child or children did this to him.
Usually kids do it because they think it’s “funny” to see a small person pedalling in the air - and it would only be funny if someone else were there to see it. Look for a group of bigger boys who came out shortly after he went in...
Prayers for this little boy.