school district superintendant stating its their understanding that, quote, despite being notified of the harassment and despite the clear obligations under state and federal law to protect students from such harassment, neither the school nor the district took adequate measures to protect seth. the letter went on to suggest that since seth died, little has been done in the school or district to address an environment of what they call hostility. the aclu offered a list of actions the district could take. we tried to reach both the superintendant and the president of the school board for reaction but were unsuccessful. and there s a development as well another story we followed closely, the case of tyler clementi. he committed suicide in september. his parents have put rutgers on notice they may file lawsuit. he took his own life after two students, including his room made, allegedly used a web camera to record a sexual encounter tyler had with another man and streamed it online. rutge
we have keeping them honest updates now on a couple of stories now, teens bullied by others at school and online. it s an ongoing problem we ve been following closely for a long time here on 360 and in many cases the bullying is made worse due to cell phones and internet. tonight, two developments involving gay teens, first the case of 13-year-old seth walsh, an openly gay student who hanged himself in september because he could no longer take the verbal and physical abuse from other teens. now the united states department of education s office of civil rights has opened an investigation into his case. seth has been teased since the fifth grade and the abuse only got worse when he announced he was gay in the sixth grade. his mother wendy says she informed school officials of the attacks against seth but says they didn t seem to care. she home-schooled him for a while in the seventh grade but seth eventually returned to school. after being harassed by a group
encounter tyler had with another man and streamed it online. rutgers says it s not responsible for tyler s suicide. we ll continue to follow these stories as they develop but it s not just teens who harass gay students. incredibly, in october, a man named clint mccance, the vice president of the midland school district in arkansas posted a series of anti-gay remarks on his facebook page. he said he likes gay people give each other aids and die and he would disown his own kids if they were gay. he said, seriously, they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide? direct quote. the only way i m wearing it is if they all commit suicide, he wrote. i can t believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. two of the five people he was referring to, seth walsh and tyler clementi. when mccance s remarks were made public, people across the country expressed their outrage at him and their immediate calls for his resignation. we at 360 wanted answers as well to find ou
pain, but i will hopefully be in a better place than this [ bleep ] hole. please, put my body in burial and visit my body. and make sure to make the school feel like [ bleep ] for bringing you this sorrow. this life was a pleasure. mostly having you guys to pull me through the pain. hopefully i become the universe. seth. it is hard to hear, obviously wendy, seth s mother there. the aclu sent a letter to the school district superintendant stating its their understanding that, quote, despite being notified of the harassment and despite the clear obligations under state and federal law to protect students from such harassment, neither the school nor the district took adequate measures to protect seth. the letter went on to suggest that since seth died, little has been done in the school or district to address an environment of what they call
we ll continue to follow these stories as they develop but it s not just teens who harass gay students. incredibly, in october, a man named clint mccance, the vice president of the midland school district in arkansas posted a series of anti-gay remarks on his facebook page. he said he likes gay people give each other aids and die and he would disown his own kids if they were gay. he said, seriously, they want me to wear purple because five queers committed suicide? direct quote. the only way i m wearing it is if they all commit suicide, he wrote. i can t believe the people of this world have gotten this stupid. two of the five people he was referring to, seth walsh and tyler clementi. when mccance s remarks were made public, people across the country expressed their outrage at him and their immediate calls for his resignation. we at 360 wanted answers as well to find out if he stood by his remarks. keeping them honest, anderson kont fronted clint mccance and he got some action. you