Our beautiful son broken by school bullying [Independent.ie]
- Published: 05 May 2011
YOUR article on teenage suicide by Edel O'Connell (Irish Independent, April 28) has at last compelled me to contribute to this sad topic.
For the past 10 years, we have kept silent on the subject of school bullying but I feel it is time to draw more attention to our plight.
For all those years past, my wife and I pleaded with both primary and secondary school teachers, principals, boards of management, chaplains, doctors, gardai and the Department of Education as well as the Minister for Education in relation to the deplorable bullying of our son, who was a very quiet, shy, vulnerable type of child.
I could not possibly put on paper what physical and psychological sufferings this child endured at the hands of the bullies.
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