Excerpt from this article:
"An 11-year-old girl who fought
cancer as a preschooler and won killed herself last month after what mom
Wendy Feucht describes as unceasing bullying, CNN
reports. Bethany Thompson, a sixth-grader in Cable, Ohio, had been free
of cancer after undergoing radiation therapy for a brain tumor at the
age of 3, but the treatments marred her nerves, leaving her with a 'crooked 'smile. That, along with her curly hair, led to the bullying
against Bethany, particularly by a certain group of boys—and on Oct. 19,
after telling her best friend she was going to end her life, Bethany
hunted for and found a loaded handgun on a high shelf inside her
family's home and shot herself before her friend's father could contact
Bethany's mom, says Paul Thompson, Bethany's dad, per the Columbus Dispatch.
Triad Middle School was aware of the bullying..." (My emphasis)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Who is to blame for bullying? The Bully? Or the teachers and staff at the school who know its going on and turn their heads?
Recommended reading:
I Want to Grow Hair, I Want to Grow Up, I Want to Go to Boise - Children Surviving Cancer, by Erma Bombeck
