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Wed Sep 17, 2014, 09:21 PM Sep 2014

Bullying in Florida school has already caused one death and is working on a second. [View all]


Mom: Boy tormented by bullies wrote suicide letter

"I am going to kill myself," the boy's letter reads. "No one understands me and I get abused. So what do I live for?"

His mother, Melissa Gusaeff, was able to talk him down but said Jordan remains on suicide watch.

"I just told him I love him and I need him," she said. "I told him, 'If you leave mommy, I won't be able to live without you.'"
Lamar Hawkins suicide: Mom says bullies won

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She said administrators at Greenwood Lakes Middle School aren't doing enough to prevent bullying. The allegations come a week after her son's friend Lamar Hawkins III shot himself to death in the school's bathroom.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-lamar-hawkins-friend-bullied-20140917-story.html

It is going to be interesting to see how they bring this school into the 21st Century when everything about this local society condones deception and bullying as a way to maintain authority.
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