[stayathomemom]

Twenty years ago, an 8 year old in our community, hanged himself with a belt after seeing the movie Nobody's Useless in the classroom the day before. The family sued the school. In the process, it came to light that two years before, another boy had attempted to hang himself after watching the same movie at that school. His mother went to the school to warn them about what had happened, but they didn't think there could be a causal relationship. I am not familiar with the book, but apparently it was a copy cat issue.

[HiTech RedNeck]

In the movie the suicide attempts didn’t succeed, so kids may have deemed it a suitable gesture to elicit sympathy not thinking it might actually kill.