Posted on 04/28/2022 10:22:07 AM PDT by nickcarraway
A 15-year-old boy who was initially targeted by a false rumor that he was unvaccinated was bullied relentlessly until he took his own life in January, a lawsuit claims.
The suit filed Monday against the Latin School of Chicago alleges administrators at the private college prep school — which charges more than $40,000 annually in tuition — committed “willful failure” to stop the incessant bullying, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The Cook County filing named the school, several employees and parents of the alleged bullies as defendants. The late teen, identified as N.B. in the suit, transferred to the school due to its in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic, the complaint states. A student whose parents are named in the lawsuit then started spreading a rumor that the 10th-grader, Nate Bronstein, was unvaccinated, according to the lawsuit.
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The emotional toll the fake pandemic has caused our children is unforgivable.
The upper crusty schools place a premium on conformity—even when conformity means (as it does today) that everyone must non-conform within certain very strict criteria. Another reason we opted to homeschool our kids.
We moved our daughter from the private school she had been attending for 6 years this October due to this very same thing. We found our daughter was being bullied for among other things not dressing like the other kids (she doesn’t like blue jeans and tee shirts). She also would not go along with teasing and ostracizing the new brown skinned kids. Teachers and administrators would not do anything about it so we pulled her out and moved her to another private school that is actually much better academically.
Good for you- and good for her. It’s tough standing up to the crowd during school years. Gutsy girl you’re raising.
Never the Masada Option! Samson Option!
And the people that perpetuated this have names. Name them and hunt them down.
Ugh. Did this happen around middle school age?
THink about the type of students that school is producing. An army of absolutely obedient liberal automotons ready to absorb all the brainwashing for the colleges they will attend.
Sad. Beautiful kid full of promise.
But why in the world wasn’t he stronger?
When I was a little girl, kids bullied me and everyone else. My mom taught me when I was maybe 5 or 6, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.”
These kids were born in the social media age and it’s all they have ever known. To them, losing status and approval is almost worse than dying. We’ve let a whole generation (2 or 3 actually) become dopamine addicts and they can’t live without their constant dose.
Jab would have killed him anyway.
Private schools are often nasty business. I went to a private religious school, funded by a local church because my family was very poor and my mom was a single mother. Upscale kids. This was 50 years ago, but the horror of my time there still gives me shudders. I was fortunate that three brave girls who were popular took me under their wing, and even complained to the principal (who did nothing), but the intense bullying didn’t stop for the two years I was there. It left a mark, for sure. Kids at that age take everything to heart. These days, I’d give as good as I got, but at 12 or 13...you don’t know how to respond. My mom’s advice was, “Just ignore them.” Yeah, right, mom. My heart truly goes out to kids in school these days, private or otherwise.
However, although bullying and abusing a child by an adult must never be tolerated and most certainly should be punished, such behavior by an adult has instead become socially acceptable to still-irrationally frightened (most often masked) American "men" and women ... so long as the bullying and abusing is done by an adult endowed with "authority" -- often times self-anointed, self-expanded "authority" -- such as a politician; an unelected bureaucrat; a "medical professional" or "medical expert"; a teacher, et al.
One thing that startled me was where the mom said she called the school 30 times in two months.
That’s almost daily. I’m sorry but a parent should have taken more decisive action. Something seems off.
Tragic situation.
Ah.. socialization. Where would kids be without it.
Your mom sounds like mine. When I got bullied and beat up, I'd come home crying and my mom would shove me out the door, telling me to go fight them back.
After growing up and having my own kids in school, I backed them up when bullied. We enrolled our daughters in a Catholic school, but it was as bad as public school. When our daughter was getting bullied by an older girl, one day I confronted that girl outside the school and fiercely told her that I knew her path home, and to stop bothering my kid or else something would happen to her. She never bothered my daughter again. I know, dangerous for me to do such a thing nowadays. With another daughter, I berated the bullies in the school hallway without an incriminating insult, got the same results where the bullying stopped. I soon took my kids out of that Catholic school.
“…targeted by a false rumor that he was unvaccinated..”
Why mention that the rumor was false? What difference does that make?
Is the author suggesting that if the boy truly had been unvaccinated, the rumors and the bullying would have been justified?
“My mom taught me when I was maybe 5 or 6, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.””
When your mother said that, we still had free speech in this country.
Since then, the Democrats have passed “hate crime” laws, making certain speech “hate speech”. Calling certain people names can get you jail time.
I doubt the children growing up today will ever hear the “sticks and stones” saying - certainly not at school, Disney, or social media.
Sadly, hate crime laws and memes protect only those the Democrats decide need protecting - and apparently the unvaccinated are not on the list.
I know Trump supporters are not on the list.
You remind me of myself. I NEVER took ANY information coming from the liberal school staff at face value and always each year sat in my kids classroom much to their embarrassment.
I finally concluded that 75% of classroom time was spent trying to gain control of the unruly students while the good kids sat quietly wanting to learn something.
So, like you, I moved each of my two kids to another school. In my case it was, both times, from public to private. I had to sue one kids mother because she broke a written promise to move the kid if I requested it. It cost $10,000 in attorney’s fees to get it done but we got it done. That one is a CPA now. So, it was all worth it.
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