School Bullying Council

A suspect is in custody following a shooting at Perry Hall High School in Maryland Monday morning, and sources say the incident may have been motivated by school bullying.

“It appears this was a one-on-one grudge situation,” a police source told CBS News.

A student reportedly entered the school cafeteria and shot another student in the back by firing at random, according to WJZ-TV. Students report that teachers tackled the suspect, and an estimated 200 students were in the cafeteria at the time. One student was shot and has been flown to a hospital for treatment.

One Facebook page that is being passed around as belonging to the suspect bias this last update: “First day of school, last day of my life. t(~_~t), f— the world.”

An unconfirmed post on a Democratic Underground forum notes that the suspect was bullied over the summer, and “was one of the all-in-black/trenchcoat types.“

“We send our students to school to be safe and this is a horrible way to start a school year,” Maryland State Schools Superintendent Lillian Lowery told Perry Hall Patch.

This is a developing story. Please check back for updates as more information becomes available.

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Posted by Derek Lactaoen on Jul 20, 2012 in Crime | 0 comments

Zach King, and his mother, Rebecca Collins, will receive up to $30,000 from the Union-Scotio School District.

Bullies beware: anti-gay violence is not only senseless and cruel, it’s also expensive.

The Union-Scotio school board of Chillicothe, Ohio, agreed to pay a $35,000 settlement reached with the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, which represented Zach King, the student who was brutally beaten for being gay.

The settlement is tame compared to other LGBT-assault settlements like the Washington school district forced to pay $100,000 for ignoring anti-gay, racist bullying.

King’s story garnered attention last October when a cell-phone video was uploaded to the Internet depicting the assault. His attacker received 90 days in juvie after pleading guilty the assault.

The breakdown goes like this:

• $20,000 in damages to the King family.
• $10,000 in medical and counseling expenses.
• $5,000 in legal fees to the ACLU.
• A promise to develop anti-bullying policies in the school district and to teach cultural understanding to school district staff of LGBTQ harassment.

My question, though, is where were these anti-bullying policies 10, 20, 30 years ago?

Maybe if schools taught how to recognize LGBT harassment and enforce acting upon it, as many do for other types of harassment and discrimination, they wouldn’t have to face the responsibility of student harm, both moral and financial.

But that’s just my two cents. Let us know yours in the comments.

(Via The Columbus Dispatch, photo via The Examiner)

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