Parents of boy, 15, who killed himself sue $40,000-a-year private Chicago school claiming officials knew he was being cyberbullied by students and at least one mother who called his parents anti-vaxxers
A 15-year-old boy asked for a meeting with the dean of his $40,000-a-year private Chicago school to report that several students were bullying him via text messages and on Snapchat – one of which encouraged him to kill himself.
The dean listened to Nate Bronstein, a 10th-grader at the Latin School of Chicago, but took no disciplinary action, according to a lawsuit recently filed by his parents.
One month later, Nate was found dead, hanging from the shower in their home with a noose tied around his neck.
Rose and Robert Bronstein had repeatedly raised concerns about their son’s struggle to adjust to his new school with administrators, which was detailed in a 68-page lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Cook County on Monday, but claim no action was taken.
It wasn’t until after Nate’s death, that they learned the extent of the bullying their son endured by his classmates. In the suit, Nate’s parents claim the school knew, but never reported it.
‘Our son would still be alive today if Latin would have done their job and reported to us what had gone on within the school,’ Rose Bronstein told CBS News.
