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Showing Original Post only (View all)boy, 12, kills himself after 'he was bullied [View all]
Folsom, California: 5 December 2014
A 12-year-old boy has killed himself after schoolmates bullied him for being a cheerleader, according to friends.
Ronin Shimizu, a former student at Folsom Middle School in Folsom, California, took his life on Wednesday afternoon but police are not releasing any further details about his death.
The school district has confirmed that the boy's parents, who also have a younger son, complained on multiple occasions that he was being bullied and officials said that they followed protocol.
But friends say that the taunting continued. He recently left Folsom Middle School to be home schooled.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2862375/Boy-12-kills-bullied-cheerleader.html#ixzz3L40Hq6y6
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1976: I was 12, my abusive father had died in March. That summer we moved to a new school because my mother could no longer afford our home.
My tormentor sat in front of me in home room.
Our teacher was also the football coach. My tormentor was the quarter back.
My tormentor was the son of a prominent doctor in out town.
Every day he would punch me in the left arm. Every day, multiple times a day. I had a lump on that arm that did not go away until my senior year.
Two of his buddies sat in the row next to us.
Everyday I heard the names. Every day I felt the blows. Every fucking day.
Go the the teacher asking to change seats. Tell him why. He tells me to hit my tormentor back. Right...pasty ass, over weight, abused, grieving child....Hit back at the most popular, in shape bully with all his friends.....not going to happen.
My heart grieves for Ronin and his family. Another gentle soul gone.....
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Most school admins are cowards who would be too terrified of angering that boy's parents.
Odin2005
Dec 2014
#63
And those same shitty parents blame the teachers' unions for schools going to shit.
Odin2005
Dec 2014
#71
I'd say it depends on how he died before we can say if he killed himself or not.
randome
Dec 2014
#5
I just wish these kids would be protected from the monsters who drive them to do such things. nt
Ykcutnek
Dec 2014
#10
It begins in the home. Kids hear, see and learn how to be monsters at home...i don't care what the
kelliekat44
Dec 2014
#66
Are we seeing an uptick, or are we just seeing more of what's always been happening?
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#14
What would be nice is if a young person didn't have to excel in sports to be "popular"
Fumesucker
Dec 2014
#65
Yep. To a twelve-year-old, five years would be about half of their full life's memories
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#22
This stuff makes me sick...I hope the parents of the bully know what they allowed...
MadDAsHell
Dec 2014
#16
"And this boy had even left school to avoid the bullying so the problem had been solved."
Posteritatis
Dec 2014
#26
A powerful story, the love of-from-for mothers is grace and beauty. You are lucky indeed.
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
#49
I have the most awful memories of 12. My heart breaks for this child and his family.
mountain grammy
Dec 2014
#47
Charges should be brought against the administrators and teaches involved, as well as the students
RKP5637
Dec 2014
#59
School bullies learn it at home. They are the victims of someone else and they take out their
McCamy Taylor
Dec 2014
#76