Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after Holy Angels Catholic Academy staff

[Disir]

Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after school ignored bullying

Private religious schools are safe spaces. Got it.

And Dad lashes out here:
SEE IT: Dad of S.I. boy who hanged himself lashes out at bullies

I would have packed up my kid and left.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

The question is why didn't they pull their son out of the school if all this was happening? Sad situation

 

[MisterBeale]

There are bullies everywhere.

I don't really want to blame the victim here. . . .


But holy shit, what WERE the parents doing while all this was going on? Why did the kid think that all of this was so important that it was worth his life?

Parents should have their kids prepared for bullies. They should have the support and self-esteem to handle the social pressure of school by the time they enter Junior High. The institutions are designed for a one-size fits all mind set.

Hell, you can see it here on USMB. Critical thinkers and folks that are different are completely bullied and ostracized. Folks are mean SOB's. Only those who are secure in who they are can suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, otherwise, they must conform.

If they can't conform, they feel as though they must die.


It is UP TO THE PARENTS, to teach them this is not the way it has to be. They must have the tools to deal with the viciousness and stupidity of society which has been dumbed down and made into lemmings by the institutions created by the elites.

 

[Alex.]

The parents have the greatest responsibility in these situations. I wonder what they were doing that was more important than their son's welfare.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

The parents have the greatest responsibility on these situations. I wonder what they were doing that was more important than their son's welfare.

My flags would have went up at the drop in the grades

 

[Alex.]

The parents have the greatest responsibility on these situations. I wonder what they were doing that was more important than their son's welfare.

My flags would have went up at the drop in the grades

generally just talking to your child reveals a great deal. Dinner together is not just for eating.

 

[MisterBeale]

The school bullying and perceived parental style in adolescents

 

[MisterBeale]

I viewed the fathers FB page. It looks like something Frank Gallagher from the show Shameless would have.


It looks like he spent more time at the bar than with his son. Sad really.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Sadly this is part of it also.

 

[turzovka]

Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after school ignored bullying

Private religious schools are safe spaces. Got it.

And Dad lashes out here:
SEE IT: Dad of S.I. boy who hanged himself lashes out at bullies

I would have packed up my kid and left.

A tragedy.

What bothers me the least is that the school recommended he go to different school the next year, that in itself may sometimes be a help. What bothers me is how much these teachers and administration contributed to making this boy become despondent, afraid and a poor student. This is very disturbing.

This sad boy having to die to bring this sorrow to a greater spotlight. And that is bullying anywhere, not just Catholic schools. Bullying via face to face or through social networking is a great failure on this nation. Educators, government, the public, whoever it is to blame needs to address this universal problem now and do something more about it.

I wish the article would have commented more on what this boy’s mother did in confronting school officials? Or was she mostly in the dark?

 

[Disir]

Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after school ignored bullying

Private religious schools are safe spaces. Got it.

And Dad lashes out here:
SEE IT: Dad of S.I. boy who hanged himself lashes out at bullies

I would have packed up my kid and left.

A tragedy.

What bothers me the least is that the school recommended he go to different school the next year, that in itself may sometimes be a help. What bothers me is how much these teachers and administration contributed to making this boy become despondent, afraid and a poor student. This is very disturbing.

This sad boy having to die to bring this sorrow to a greater spotlight. And that is bullying anywhere, not just Catholic schools. Bullying via face to face or through social networking is a great failure on this nation. Educators, government, the public, whoever it is to blame needs to address this universal problem now and do something more about it.

I wish the article would have commented more on what this boy’s mother did in confronting school officials? Or was she mostly in the dark?

This is what I found:
nstead of helping, administrators at a Brooklyn Catholic school sicced child-welfare investigators on the family of a 13-year-old boy — who then killed himself after complaining that classmates bullied him, his distraught parents said.

Danny Fitzpatrick’s family charges that sending the Administration for Children’s Services to their home was the wrong call by officials at Holy Angels Catholic Academy.

Instead, they said, the school should have stopped the bullying that led Danny to hang himself with a belt in the family’s attic. His older sister found him dead late Thursday.

“They called ACS on us,” in November 2015, mom Maureen said of administrators at the Bay Ridge school, fighting back tears as she sat at a kitchen table covered with family photos.

Danny told us they [administrators] were asking questions: ‘Do Mom and Dad drink? Do they feed you? Do they have clothes in the house?’ ” the mom said.

“Next thing you know, 7:30 at night, I have an ACS officer at my door, and my son told him, ‘I just want a friend.’”

The parents agreed to drug testing and to a thorough investigation, which ultimately turned up nothing, they said.

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Daniel Fitzpatrick, 13Photo: G.N. Miller
When the parents met with Principal Rosemarie McGoldrick, they were told that the bullying was just a phase and would pass.
Parents of bullied kid who killed himself say school did nothing

and other stuff:
Daniel Fitzpatrick Suicide: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

 

[turzovka]

Staten Island boy, 13, kills self after school ignored bullying

Private religious schools are safe spaces. Got it.

And Dad lashes out here:
SEE IT: Dad of S.I. boy who hanged himself lashes out at bullies

I would have packed up my kid and left.

A tragedy.

What bothers me the least is that the school recommended he go to different school the next year, that in itself may sometimes be a help. What bothers me is how much these teachers and administration contributed to making this boy become despondent, afraid and a poor student. This is very disturbing.

This sad boy having to die to bring this sorrow to a greater spotlight. And that is bullying anywhere, not just Catholic schools. Bullying via face to face or through social networking is a great failure on this nation. Educators, government, the public, whoever it is to blame needs to address this universal problem now and do something more about it.

I wish the article would have commented more on what this boy’s mother did in confronting school officials? Or was she mostly in the dark?

This is what I found:
nstead of helping, administrators at a Brooklyn Catholic school sicced child-welfare investigators on the family of a 13-year-old boy — who then killed himself after complaining that classmates bullied him, his distraught parents said.

Danny Fitzpatrick’s family charges that sending the Administration for Children’s Services to their home was the wrong call by officials at Holy Angels Catholic Academy.

Instead, they said, the school should have stopped the bullying that led Danny to hang himself with a belt in the family’s attic. His older sister found him dead late Thursday.

“They called ACS on us,” in November 2015, mom Maureen said of administrators at the Bay Ridge school, fighting back tears as she sat at a kitchen table covered with family photos.

Danny told us they [administrators] were asking questions: ‘Do Mom and Dad drink? Do they feed you? Do they have clothes in the house?’ ” the mom said.

“Next thing you know, 7:30 at night, I have an ACS officer at my door, and my son told him, ‘I just want a friend.’”

The parents agreed to drug testing and to a thorough investigation, which ultimately turned up nothing, they said.

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Daniel Fitzpatrick, 13Photo: G.N. Miller
When the parents met with Principal Rosemarie McGoldrick, they were told that the bullying was just a phase and would pass.
Parents of bullied kid who killed himself say school did nothing

and other stuff:
Daniel Fitzpatrick Suicide: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know

From the New York Post:

“They called ACS on us,” in November 2015, mom Maureen said of administrators at the Bay Ridge school, fighting back tears as she sat at a kitchen table covered with family photos.

“Danny told us they [administrators] were asking questions: ‘Do Mom and Dad drink? Do they feed you? Do they have clothes in the house?’ ” the mom said.

“Next thing you know, 7:30 at night, I have an ACS officer at my door, and my son told him, ‘I just want a friend.’”

The parents agreed to drug testing and to a thorough investigation, which ultimately turned up nothing, they said.

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Daniel Fitzpatrick, 13Photo: G.N. Miller

When the parents met with Principal Rosemarie McGoldrick, they were told that the bullying was just a phase and would pass.

The outraged parents arranged for him to start at another school in the fall, but the bullying continued, they said.

The school maintained that they “did everything in their power” to help Danny and his complaints about bullying did not fall on deaf ears.

“Conflicts with other students were never ignored,” Holy Angels Academy said in a statement.

“The school provided counseling for Daniel, suspended students accused of bullying him, and met with those students parents.”

They also said that Danny attended three counseling sessions until his parents decided to discontinue the service.

The parents claimed that this past spring, four or five boys from the school ganged up on him on school grounds in a fight that left Danny with a fractured pinkie.

Instead of coming to Danny’s aid, administrators put all the boys in a room to ask what happened.

“How do you conduct an interview with the victim and his attacker in the same room?” the mom asked.

“If he said what happened, it would come back to him tenfold.”

By then, Danny trusted no one.

“Not the teachers, not nobody,” said the mom. “He didn’t want to report anything or [have] us writing letters. Nothing.”

“I’ll never have my baby back,” mom sobbed, describing her son as humiliated and shunned.

ACS, McGoldrick and the Diocese of Brooklyn did not return requests for comment Saturday.

A wake for Danny will be held Monday and Tuesday at Harmon Funeral Home on Staten Island. A funeral Mass will be said Wednesday at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church in Staten Island.

“Monsters,” the boy’s anguished dad, Daniel, called his son’s young tormentors in a Facebook video posted Saturday.

“My son didn’t have a violent bone in his body. He had a heart of gold.”