Posted on 08/27/2018 3:26:36 PM PDT by Ennis85
A nine-year-old boy has killed himself after enduring four days of homophobic bullying at school in Denver, Colorado, his mother says.
Leia Pierce told KDVR-TV that her son, Jamel Myles, revealed to her over the summer that he was gay.
She said Jamel wanted to go to school and tell his classmates because he was "proud" to be gay.
Denver Public Schools (DPS) say crisis counsellors have been made available to students at Jamel's elementary school.
The school system sent letters to families on Friday about the additional counselling services for students.
The letter, addressed to Shoemaker families, says Jamel's death "is an unexpected loss for our school community" and offers parents signs of stress to watch for in their children.
"Our goal is to partner with you in sharing this news with your child in the most appropriate way possible, with as much support as may be needed, so please feel free to reach out about how you want to handle this."
DPS Spokesman Will Jones told the BBC that teachers at Shoemaker "are creating a space for students to share how they are feeling and to process their emotions".
Fourth and fifth grade teachers will also be calling families individually to check on students.
"Our priority right now is to look at all the concerns raised in this case, to keep all our students safe and to do a fair and thorough review of the facts surrounding this tragic loss," he said in an emailed statement.
Denver police are investigating the boy's death as a suicide.
Jamel's body was found at home on Thursday, Ms Pierce told local media.
He had begun attending fourth grade at the Joe Shoemaker Elementary School on Monday, she said.
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“How is that possible? “
Strong feminist dominant mother. Funny uncle. Catholic priest. Older boy in high school. Boy Scout leader. Weird neighbor down the street. No father in the house. Etc. etc. etc.
“all 9 year old boys are gay in that they prefer to be around boys and “do not like” girls.”
Speak for yourself!
Only change after puberty is that boys also like being with girls and girls also like being with boys.
All down the street, they're standin' in line, With white lipstick, and one thing on their minds - Tom petty-Zombie Zoo
and Big boys wouldn't play with Big girls if they didn't have " Magic parts". God intended that way..
Poor Kid wasn't gay, He didn't have a dad, he was nine acting like a normal self absorbed nine year old who doesn't have a father.
Maybe someone at home molested and confused the child. And blamed the school with its foolish agenda.
How did such degradation occur in such a short time in the USA?
100% correct.. a 9 year old boy doesn’t know shxt about being a fag unless people i.e. parents more than likely pushed that on him.
I guess I was gay at 9 because I thought girls had cooties. But I had plenty of friends that thought the same.
I outgrew it.
The mother probably did talk about it with him and perhaps even pushed him in that direction, but 9 year olds get called that every day, and they do worry about it. They know they are being insulted, even if they don’t know the details.
Gay pride leads to suicide? Who knew?
Regardless of what the kid thinks he is, sexualizing children is a perverted thing to do in itself, let alone sexualizing them in a deviant way.
Exactly.
Yes. And notice how the headline makes it sound like he was killed by someone else rather than by suicide.
Nine years old and he thinks he’s gay?? Any responsible person would have said “You know, just wait until you actually enter puberty to see where your hormones really kick in”.
Smells like Munchausen by proxy.
I hope the police are keeping an open mind.
What 9 year old dreams of being sodomized?? Who put the ideas in his head that sodomizing others and being sodomized was a healthy act?? I halve to blame the Parents for allowing the indoctrination and participating in it.
Friends don’t let Friends Watch TV!!!
....”since when do pre-pubescent children know for certain that they’re homosexual”.....
They don’t.... but it is a misplaced ‘attention’ getter kids think will make them ‘special’. In this case the parents and the kid falsely believed in the LBGT Junk being peddled and it cost them their sons life.
2. If you WERE homo, you'd have no reason to be "proud." You would be mentally ill, and that's hardly something to brag about.
3. If you WERE homo, it would be nobody's business but yours. So running your mouth about it demonstrated not pride but a death wish.
4. We're not going to sit here and entertain this idiocy. Either you give up this pretense that you're queer or we get you into therapy and get your head on straight.
Now go clean up your room.
you’re absolutely right....kids get trapped....who are they going to tell to help him/her to work it through
Nine year olds can definitely be suicidal but that usually has to do with what’s going on at home
I doubt the boy came out to his mom
I’ll say it again, schools are for teaching children the basic academics - reading, writing, and arithmetic, not counseling and indoctrinating them with social or political theories and concepts outside the scope of their understanding.
The poor kid needed to focus on academics first, not on subjects inappropriate for their age groups. At his age it is doubtful he could understand or even care about such concepts such as mortality, morality, opposite genders, alternate (gay or lesbian) lifestyles, etc. or even had thoughts about the meaning of life (which we all seek to know). Nor is it the schools’ responsibility to indoctrinate them. All he wanted to do was be accepted and treated by his peers as their equal.
School counselors, on the other hand, cannot, should not, or do not know in every case when is the best time when these non-academic concepts should be introduced to a child. That’s where the parents are supposed to take responsibility to further their children’s education and teach them about the choices they will have to make when they become adults.
In this case it was way too early for the child to be exposed to alternate lifestyles. He was confused and unable to understand the information and issues he was being given. Maybe his parents really believed he was being bullied by his classmates. But it looks to me more like his classmates felt like he was not one of them.
One thing I know is that parents should warn their children about the indoctrination they are being given in today’s schools and to come to them for an explanation if they are confused about anything academic or otherwise being taught to them. So in this screwed up world the child made the only choice that seemed rational to him based on the information he had been taught and/or given. The outcome was undesirable. May he rest in peace.
In the computer world, it’s called “Garbage in, garbage out”. Anything else is insane...
Someday I’m going to be sitting on a jury for one of these boys who were lied to this way. They are going to tell me all about how after puberty he went into his parents room at night and hacked them to pieces with an axe. Not Guilty!
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