Student Suspended After Rodemeyer Parents Share Story

[William769]

A student has been punished for chanting during a school dance that 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer is "better off dead" after committing suicide in September in the face of unrelenting bullying.

The students began the taunt as the speakers blared a song by Lady Gaga, who Rodemeyer adored — even being buried in a "Born This Way" T-shirt. There in the auditorium to hear the taunts was Rodemeyer's sister. Parents Tracy and Tim Rodemeyer shared the shocking story during a Today show interview last week after their daughter came home very upset.

Superintendent Scott Martzloff of the Williamsville, N.Y., Central School District reported that the student responsible for the chanting faced suspension "to the fullest extent allowed under education law."

"We will not let the actions of any student threaten the emotional well-being of others," he said in a video message posted on the school district's website.

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2011/10/03/Student_Suspended_After_Jamey_Rodemeyer_s_Parents_Share_Shocking_Story/

[Mr Deltoid]

1. Probably repeating what he hears at home around the dinner table

[BlueState]

2. I am at a loss for words.

Just reading this saddens me deeply.

[WillParkinson]

3. We will not let the actions of any student threaten the emotional well-being of others...

A lot of good that did Jamey.

[William769]

4. It's called CYA.

Hopefully in the future it will work.

[Sub Atomic]

6. Puhleeze. It didn't work in the past and it won't work in the future.

It's time to take it past the rhetoric.

Punish these people to the fullest extent that the law allows.

And if that's not enough, work to change the laws so that it is.


Because as a Nuclear Gay, I would never vow to take things beyond the rhetoric. Though I would never speak ill of those who do.

[abogado]

5. The name of the "chanter" should be made public.

...

[Sub Atomic]

7. It absolutely should.

The time for protecting assholes like this had been over for far too long.

Let them realize the ramifications of their words and actions within their own communities.