The story of Dylan's trial was recounted by his father, Alan.
Theno said the bullying of his son started in February 2000 when a boy in his son’s seventh-grade class announced loudly in the school cafeteria that he had seen Dylan Theno masturbating in a boy’s restroom.
“It wasn’t true, but he said it and it was heard by a large group of boys,” Theno said. “My son’s name went from Dylan to ‘jerkoff,’ ‘jack-off boy,’ ‘masturbator,’ ‘fag,’ ‘queer,’ ‘flamer’ and many other filthy names. My son complained about it to the principal, but the principal forgot about it.”
Dylan Theno is not a homosexual.
The names became worse as the boys found they wouldn’t be punished, Alan Theno said. He said he and his wife went to the school 40 times to complain.
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I taught high-school science for two years way back when the last century still had a decade-plus on the clock.
I loved the kids, but too many parents wanted me to do my job and theirs, and the administrators? The best ones deserved stocks in the public square and over-ripe produce.
I've never taught high school, but as the parent of a one-time high school student, I can certainly see what you're saying. Do you think the parents should have intervened with the bullies? My experience was that the parents of bullies were, at times, bigger bullies than the kids.
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