Alex had been harassed and ostracized at school, mostly by a small group of students.He learned it was "not cool to be smart." He was teased and bullied while playing tennis. He was harassed. And today with facebook and social networking, kids can take this bullying even further out. They can make someone's life miserable.Among other things, his parents say Falan's report detailed eyewitness reports of a lunchroom incident that happened the day before their son died.
They say Alex had approached a table of popular students when one of the girls at the table used an expletive to tell him to him to go away.
Then she added, "Don't you know everyone hates you?"
There were reports of other incidents, his parents say, with a small group of students surrounding and taunting him in a secluded hallway with no cameras when no one else was around. Some also frequently chanted "Creeper, Creeper," using a nickname they'd given him.
His parents say yet another student spread a rumor that Alex was looking in her windows at night, which his parents insist wasn't true.
Still, Alex remained stoic.
"Is it the total reason he took his life? That is unknown," Falan says. But he does believe "it is part of the 'why.'"
Not much changes between generations of children.
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