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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have been reading this post and wanted to express my condolences to the young person's family.  Simply no words to express what a tragedy this is.  A few people have asked what we could do to stop this from happening again.  I found this article to be eye opening and plan to share it with my own children when they are old enough.  
https://medium.com/@jezhou/on-growing-up-in-the-bay-area-and-its-rippling-effects-b3273b9e2534[/url][/quote]

This is a fantastic, illustrative article about how toxic the public school environment has become in some areas, the DC area included. Those who want to always blame it on the parents should see that this boy's mother acted quite the opposite of how he anticipated she'd react, and how the administrators say parents react. She did a beautiful job. The culture, in this case, definitely came from the school system, who, like the DC area, encourage the competitiveness.

Now I have nothing against challenge. I do have a problem with kids working their collective a$$es to try and beat a rigged system, then placing the blame on the kids when they don't meet these ridiculous hurdles. School systems know they can do a LOT to change the culture. They don't want to. Those that love to call others narcissistic don't even consider how narcissistic it is for school teachers and administrators to place such burdens on teenagers for their own benefit. A teacher knows when they assign too much homework. Some choose to do it anyway. Perhaps they 'get off' on being 'that' teacher. Perhaps they feel it elevates their class to the 'most important'. Administrators want that prestige that comes with a high ranking.

The net result is that some kids feel their only way out of what they see as hell is suicide. It's tragic on so many levels. It's fixable too. It's really too bad that high-pressure school systems seem to see these kids as expendable. [/quote]

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