Chicago prep school’s ‘negligent behavior’ toward cyberbullying led to student’s suicide, parents allege
In January 2022, Robert and Rose Bronstein’s 15-year-old son died by suicide after The Latin School of Chicago allegedly ignored the teenager’s complaints about bullying on social media from his peers.
The Bronsteins allege that the school never notified them after their son, Nate, went to school staff with concerns about the bullying he was being subject to on apps like Snapchat about a month prior to his death.
“Their first instinct, their second instinct and third instinct was to protect themselves and their careers. They could literally care less about the truth,” Robert Bronstein said of the school, which he claimed acted with “cruelty and callousness” before and after their son’s death.
Issues at school
Prior to his suicide, the school’s dean of students allegedly contacted the Bronsteins to tell them Nate had been put on notice for not wearing his mask correctly over his nose.
The same dean of students, however, apparently failed to contact the Bronsteins when their son was being bullied, according to their lawsuit against the school.
The Bronsteins enrolled Nate, whom they described as a “bright” and “energetic” boy with an intense love for sports, at The Latin School of Chicago as a sophomore in the fall of 2021.
