Private School suicide and cyber bullying lawsuit - Latin School of Chicago

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/15-year-old-boy-cyberbullying-suicide-latin-school-chicago-lawsuit/

The complaint (embedded in news link) here is horrific. Someone in Chicago sent it along.

Anyone know anything?

This is so sad and disturbing. The kids should be charged and all of their names should be made public so no college will ever accept them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really horrific. Shouldn’t the school have told the parents what they knew or saw or what the kid reported?

How does this even happen when you pay so much tuition…

Schools don’t tell parents anything. This poor kid. I am so upset. I have heard of local kids get bullied and this is just Heartbreaking. Other kids often protect bullies because they are afraid of them themselves. Seen it time and time again.

[Anonymous]

This is so incredibly sad. I suspect there weee many kids who transferred during the pandemic for in person learning and were met with rough transitions. My child was one. Same thing - I speak or try to interact and people literally don’t respond at all; kids discussing plans in front of her and she is the ONLY person not invited; kids poring up and her always being left out and intense involvement with all social media. It was terribly rough. She eventually settled in and is comfortable but we are still moving her back to public. To be honest, her old friend group from public is parented differently and I prefer that. I really wish this family peace.

[Anonymous]

*were

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is so incredibly sad. I suspect there weee many kids who transferred during the pandemic for in person learning and were met with rough transitions. My child was one. Same thing - I speak or try to interact and people literally don’t respond at all; kids discussing plans in front of her and she is the ONLY person not invited; kids poring up and her always being left out and intense involvement with all social media. It was terribly rough. She eventually settled in and is comfortable but we are still moving her back to public. To be honest, her old friend group from public is parented differently and I prefer that. I really wish this family peace.

*pairing up

[Anonymous]

Omg. This is brutal. Poor family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/15-year-old-boy-cyberbullying-suicide-latin-school-chicago-lawsuit/

The complaint (embedded in news link) here is horrific. Someone in Chicago sent it along.

Anyone know anything?

This is so sad and disturbing. The kids should be charged and all of their names should be made public so no college will ever accept them.

Look on the schools website.
Lots of board members kids…. No surprise.

[Anonymous]

Also look up the dads - lots of spoiled kids of hedge fund/finance types.

[Anonymous]

Board member kids were the bullies to this kid? That's horrible.

[Anonymous]

This is horribly sad and hits close to home as my younger kid is dealing with this right now at school and I don't know what to do. The meanest kids are the ones with the loudest parents who are gossipy and involved in socially engineering their children's social lives. We're going to see a therapist starting next week to help our son and ourselves through this issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is horribly sad and hits close to home as my younger kid is dealing with this right now at school and I don't know what to do. The meanest kids are the ones with the loudest parents who are gossipy and involved in socially engineering their children's social lives. We're going to see a therapist starting next week to help our son and ourselves through this issue.

Why don’t people talk about what a real issue this is? The social engineering. The targeting. It’s almost like it’s hush-hush and no school wants to touch it with a 10 foot pole

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is horribly sad and hits close to home as my younger kid is dealing with this right now at school and I don't know what to do. The meanest kids are the ones with the loudest parents who are gossipy and involved in socially engineering their children's social lives. We're going to see a therapist starting next week to help our son and ourselves through this issue.

Get them out of there asap. Don't leave them in a school that they are being bullied in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I read the text message strings within the first 40 pages and it’s sad..,the kids wer a little harsh but DB clearly had no social kills and no idea how to respond. A few kids even chimed in to reassure them they weren’t mad at him, that it was all love, etc. it didn’t seem that bad.

I’m heartbroken for the victim’s sister who found him. She was already having a horrible year. From the surface of the complaint, though, I don’t get why the plaintiffs are including her text messages to her mom. She does seem very socially awkward and it’s sad that other kids weren’t friendly to her, but that is different than bullying her.

For a 40k school, you’d think they’d have better mental health and socialization supports in place…at least social skills groups and lunch bunches.

To anyone experiencing anything like this with your child: please do not rely on email. Pick up the phone. Get on someone’s calendar. This is not victim blaming; just an advocacy tip. I’m a school employee and we are deluged with emails. I’m like an emergency room trailer nurse with email. The big, big ones I just can’t tackle right now…then they get buried. It’s not an excuse; just an explanation. If you’re teaching or with students all day, you’re not in front of your inbox all day. In the tiny slivers of time that you have to catch up, that’s a LOT to dump on people.

Mental health and social skills are outside things for parents to do. That's not the school responsibility.

Our school and many others say it's a partnership with the parents. These are the responsibilities of the parents and the school community.

[Anonymous]

Why keeps schools from creating rules about this stuff? Is it a legal issue?

When I was in school our behavior off-campus and after school was considered within the jurisdiction of school rules for certain things. Why not this?

[Anonymous]

Private schools should make telling other students they should kill themselves (in school or out of school, even in jest) an honor code violation that results in immediate expulsion.