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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Not only the school, but the entire town, should be held accountable.
ReplyDeleteKids aren't born bullies, they learn to be bullies ... usually at home.
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.
ReplyDeleteHe was talking in code and he was saying come out come , come out where ever you are.
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