Parents of Murdered gay student blame school

[HappyTown]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

In the parent's defense...


Fact is, if my son wanted to wear girls clothes to school, there isn't much I can do about it. I'm not home to check him out before he leaves for school.

But thank God I don't have that problem!

This is true, when I'd drop my daughter off at the bus stop you see a few kids changing into different clothes after their parents drop them off. We have one young gal who puts on very short skirts over her pants then removes the pants, changes her shoe's to high heels or go-go boots puts on makeup , when she gets off the bus she back into her pants and flats no makeup, so mommy wont know.

[Jermyn Davidson]

Originally Posted by Baron1710

And if they had tried to enforce it they would have cried discrimination.

Maybe if the parents had done a better job then they would have had custody of the boy. Who took the 8th grade boy shopping for those clothes?

That "would have cried discrimination" is hogwash. If that boy's school had done what they were supposed to do, then maybe this would have never happened.

There is plenty the parents probably should have done, but they are not suing themselves. They are suing the school and that school must shoulder some of the blame for that child's untimely, preventable death.

[HeavenlyOne]

While it's not the job of the school to raise our kids, they do have a certain amount of responsibility, since they have our children for about 25% of their lives from the ages of 5 to 18.

If the school has them that long, and kids sleep 40-50 percent, guess how much time that leaves to the parents?

25-35%!! We get about as much time with our children as the school gets.

[Rico]

Just the fact that their child was shot during school hours, and on school property, would give the parent's grounds for a lawsuit.

[Jermyn Davidson]

I would rather see this child's actual care givers sue the school. If I remember correctly, his home life was so terrible tat he wasn't even living at home with his parents.

When you think about it, this kid lived a miserable experience and was then killed violently. This happened, not in a third world country, but in our USA.

This story made me sad when I thought about it, in these terms.