BREAKING: Autistic Student Bullied In School, Parents Sue

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I finished school last year.

Not really. Some people are still d*cks but I didn't really expect anything different. There isn't the forced socialisation that was in school though so I find it a lot better. Not to say that people still can't be ignorant or irritating jerks.

I start at the University of South Australia in a few weeks. Where do you go?

LOL. Hopefully it's not that bad where I am. In any case I'll find out pretty soon. Looks like we kinda hijacked this thread.

Good for them. The day where a teacher will never look the other way when bullying, physical, verbal or emotional, occurs is the day when school will actually become enjoyable and safe for people who might otherwise do well in it. Really, a school that consistently permits bullying should not be allowed to remain open, and bullies should be treated like criminals and/or expelled from school. After all, it's absolute BS that if you're an adult who hurts another person, it's assault, battery and/or child abuse, but if you're a child who hurts other people you're "helping them to build character" and "toughening them up." Injustice and crime are just that, no matter what the age of the perpetrator. Especially in high school, they've had plenty of time to learn how to decently treat other people, and by that point they are consciously choosing to do otherwise.

Don't even get me started on TEACHERS who abuse their students....

Unfortunately, as someone else touched on briefly, school shootings don't get it through people's thick heads what problems bullying causes. It's always Marilyn Manson, South Park, Grand Theft Auto, death metal or something else. What's the most perverse thing, actually, is how after Columbine, teachers and administrators across the country, as I heard and saw, took this to mean that ALL outsiders and geeks who are the problem. Bullying was MORE condoned post-Columbine than pre- in many places, because someone who struck back against their tormentors (mind you, actually going out of your way to hurt someone weaker than you who had done no wrong was still A-okay) was immediately punished and viewed under scrutiny, sometimes for years. Just sick.

I think that suing is saying to people if you bully others this is what will happen if you do. How many kids (ASD or not) have been mentally affected by this and nothing been done? I say hurt the wallets and the bulling will stopped.

I've made that threat. After being bullied to the point where I hit out at someone and the school did nothing about it I seriously considered it. Sadly nobody would allow a 13 year old to do that. But I still haven't recovered from it.

Those people who were bullying me have records for it. Everybody knows what they do, and everybody turns a blind eye. Sadly, I think that (at my school at least) the teacher's hands are tied.

They need to do something, and if suing works then fine by me.

What I cannot understand is why criminal charges weren't filed against the bullies? This should have been stopped a long time ago.