Monday, July 29, 2013

In Iowa: Five Suicides in Five Years at the same High School over Gay Bullying


Another teen took his life because of gay bullying. But the truly sad thing about all of this is, he is the fifth suicide from the same school.

16-year-old AJ Betts was a student at Pleasant Hill, Iowa’s Southeast Polk High School. When he was outed, he was harassed regularly until he took matters into his own hands.

Interesting enough, AJ helped many gay teens throughout their struggles in school. But I guess he didn't have someone to help him process what was going on with him. AJ's suicide is the 5th one in 5 years. So I have to ask, "What's going on there?"

Why are these students suffering like this? And, what are the staff and administrators doing to help these students? They should be ashamed of this outcome and the behavior of these bullies. I really hope that AJ's family hold this school accountable for this. This has to stop.

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3 comments:

www.DiatribesAndOvations.com said...

Not only the school, but the entire town, should be held accountable.

Kids aren't born bullies, they learn to be bullies ... usually at home.

Anonymous said...

I never got teased for being gay but I did hate it when guys who knew I was guy didn't like my gay friends.

Anonymous said...

He was talking in code and he was saying come out come , come out where ever you are.

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