Spilled Expresso

The Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network website (GLSEN.org) reported the suicide of an 11 year-old boy. The young man hung himself after dealing with Anti-gay attacks from his peers. The taunting continued despite his mother's pleading with school officials about the matter. It was reported that the young man didn't "identify himself as gay."
I came across this story, through my friend Nee, who had a link to it on her Facebook status. I almost cried just reading the headline. This story is disturbing on so many levels. One that student bullying was making this child feel so terrible that he would end his own life. His peers should be ashamed.
Yet the kids are hardly the only ones to be blamed. Where were the adults? Why didn't the school do something when the mother spoke to them? If the kid was being taunted so badly, how did the teachers not see anything? Not hear anything? Did they just choose to ignore it. Administrators shouldn't ignore this. Member Jenna Six? Before all the drama went down and there was a "white's only tree" and the black kids asked administrators for permission to sit under said tree. Despite having knowledge about the racial trouble that was brewing, the school did nothing, And look what happened. It's not enough for schools to worry about standardized tests scores. What good are passing scores if kids aren't living long enough to graduate?
Sadly, many of these children are probably taught this type of hate at home. It makes me sick and sad.
That is why, I could never date someone with so much hate. I would never want to start a family with some intolerant ignoramus who would pass that type of stupidity on to the children (assuming I do the married with kids bit).