same kind of taunts. he also hanged himself. so did ryan halligan, bullied, taunlted by the girls, called a loser. eric mohat bullied again and again until one day he took a gun from his father's dresser drawer and turned it on himself. all too often as we have seen parents of kids who've been bullied find that schools don't take the problem seriously enough. here's what carl's mother said recently on capitol hill. >> i did everything that a parent is supposed to do. i chose a good school. i joined the pto. i went to every parent-teacher conference. i called the school regularly and i brought the bullying problem to their staff's attention. the school did not act. the teachers did not know how to respond. >> right now, there's legislation making its way through congress, safe schools improvement act, defining bullying of conduct placing students in reasonable fear of physical harm, conduct based on race, color, national origin, disability, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.