Student Takes His Own Life After Being Bullied Over His Vaccination Status
According to lawsuit filed Monday, a 15-year-old boy took his own life after other students continued to be bully him over a false rumor that he was unvaccinated.
The suit filed against the Latin School of Chicago claims administrators at the private college prep school — which charges more than $40,000 annually in tuition — devoted “willful failure” to stop the endless bullying, the Chicago Tribune reported.
The Cook County filing named the school, numerous employees and parents of the alleged bullies as defendants. The late teen, recognized as N.B. in the suit, transferred to the school due to its in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic, the lawsuit states.
A student whose parents are documented in the lawsuit then began circulating a rumor that the 10th-grader, Nate Bronstein, was unvaccinated, according to the lawsuit.
