CNN.com has an article called, “My bullied son’s last day on Earth:”
Jaheem was hanging by his belt in the closet.“I always used to see these things on TV, dead people on the news,” says Bermudez. “I saw somebody die and to see this dead person is your son, hanging there, a young boy. … To hang yourself like that, you’ve got to really be tired of something.”
Bermudez says bullies at school pushed Jaheem over the edge. He complained about being called gay, ugly and “the virgin” because he was from the Virgin Islands, she said.
“He used to say Mom they keep telling me this … this gay word, this gay, gay, gay. I’m tired of hearing it, they’re telling me the same thing over and over,” she told CNN, as she wiped away tears from her face.
But while she says her son complained about the bullying, she had no idea how bad it had gotten.
“He told me, but he just got to the point where he didn’t want me to get involved anymore because nothing was done,” she said.
Bermudez said she complained to the school about bullying seven or eight times, but it wasn’t enough to save him.
This hits close to home for me. I was bullied throughout most of my days in school. Even then, school administrators did nothing about it.
If your children fights back against the bullying, he or she gets detention or suspension, no questions asked. If they don’t, they’re focused to endure a hardship that no child should ever have to endure when they are trying to get an education and set the foundation for their future.
People say it’s also the responsibility of the parents of those doing the bullying to curb it, but the responsibility is immediately placed on the school to enforce stricter policies. If the bullying is happening on school campus, it’s the school’s prerogative to prevent cases like Jaheem’s from happening to anyone else.
