Obama administration makes federal case out of gay bulling suicide

[Enrique]

which it should be, imo...

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_ncasFi9ZVQBNHi3oKBWzsUhF_A?docId=adb2c0ab52344d8282164e0280c8f12d

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal education officials are investigating a school district in a Central California town where a 13-year-old boy committed suicide after allegedly being harassed by classmates because he was gay, a spokesman for Education Secretary Arne Duncan confirmed Tuesday.

The probe was launched in response to a complaint from Seth Walsh's mother that Tehachapi Unified School District employees failed to adequately address the years of bullying that preceded her son's death last Sept. 28, spokesman Justin Hamilton said.

Seth's mother Wendy Walsh said U.S. Department of Education investigators spent two days in Tehachapi last week interviewing students, teachers and administrators. She said she contacted them when her son, who hanged himself from a backyard tree on Sept. 19, was still hospitalized in a coma.

"They put this on their very important list, their priority list," Walsh said of the federal review. "Obviously, there must be a big problem that needs to be addressed, and it isn't just around Seth. It's the whole nation."

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[vaberella]

1. Gay or hetero----suicide caused by bullying is out of control. n/t

[Enrique]

2. kick

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