Bullied teen win's 440k lawsuit against school

[mdvaldosta]

A small-town teenager who was bullied for years by classmates because they believed he was gay was awarded $440,000 in a settlement, his lawyer said.

The settlement Thursday ended a longrunning battle between the Tonganoxie School District and 18-year-old Dylan Theno, who sued in May 2004 claiming he was harassed with homophobic slurs from seventh grade until he quit school his junior year.

Under the terms, the school district and its insurance company will pay Theno $440,000, said his attorney, Arthur Benson.

"I expect this case will have profound effects nationwide in dealing with schoolyard bullying and harassment," Benson said. "Insurance companies will have a very powerful economic incentive to see that districts' anti-harassment policies are aggressive and effective."

Theno, who testified that he isn't gay, recently earned his GED and attends a vocational technical school in Kansas City.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

So... now the taxes are going to go up in that area, and the insurance companies are going to want understaffed schools to spend more time keeping an eye on trouble makers while the 10:1 student:teacher ratio doesn't help the staff to watch every single kid all through middle and high school.

IMO that kind of settlement was way too much overkill.

 

[UncleBacon]

put yourself in his shoes

 

[potassiumnitrate]

Re: RE: Bullied teen win's 440k lawsuit against school

put yourself in his shoes

if i were in his shoes, i wouldn't be such a pussy about small issues like being bullied. If you can't handle a bit of harassment, then maybe you deserve to be harassed.

Later in life he's going to learn that not everything is going to go his way, and is he going to sue everybody who doesn't agree with him?

 

[UncleBacon]

well then in that case he may be a very rich man....

 

[redsMULLT1]

I feel that sometimes bullying can go way too far. Especially with young kids. If they take it to heart it can fuck their self esteem up bad. I wasn't bullied in school but I know a few people who were. Makes me think of that one part in Napoleon Dynamite. That shit was awesome.

 

[TheOriginalJames]

Re: RE: Bullied teen win's 440k lawsuit against school

put yourself in his shoes

You don't think my skinny ass was never bullied? lol

I dealt with it by pulling pranks... it's kinda funny when the guy that used to fuck with you in middle school is suddenly your locker partner in High school.

Lets just say I moved my stuff out of the locker, and then proceeded to spray shaving cream all over his stuff.

The best part of it was it was out of the blue. Nothing set me off, I just did it to do it. They never figured out it was me.

 

[UncleBacon]

I was never bullied actually I hated bullies and had a tendacy to beat them up for bullying the weak...

 

[TheOriginalJames]

So you were a bully bully...

lol

 

[redsMULLT1]

Thats awesome :rofl

 

[UncleBacon]

I guess when it called for it...I'd see a kid get smacked around in school that I know was only getting picked on because he was weak...I'd walk right up to the person being a bully and smack them in the mouth and ask them how they liked it...usually it erupted into a fight and they lost and found out the hard way they shouldn't do what they did...most of them were cowards anyways and would back down as soon as someone stood up to them...I'm not trying to sound like a total bad ass tough guy or anything but I do know how to fight and know how to hurt someone bad...price you pay for being the baby of the family and the smallest male in the family...toughens you up and teaches you how to handle your business...

 

[Hurt911gen]

what a pussy. i was almost never harassed of being gay. maybe because i look scary.

 

[hhayes]

for some reason i can believe that.....

 

[Hurt911gen]

well you see people should know if they do shit then they will pay back. nobody wants to get hurt so nobody does shit.

 

[hhayes]

so you are saying that people are scared of you because of how you looked you do know that some people get their ass kicked for that too

 

[Hurt911gen]

no i just think i don't look like a person who would be bullied you know? plus i don't think i look gay on the outside, so people, especially guys, can't always tell that i'm gay unless i tell them.

PS 100% of women i met knew i was gay after they got to know me but not guys.

 

[Mrs Behavin]

Re: RE: Bullied teen win's 440k lawsuit against school

no i just think i don't look like a person who would be bullied you know? plus i don't think i look gay on the outside, so people, especially guys, can't always tell that i'm gay unless i tell them.

PS 100% of women i met knew i was gay after they got to know me but not guys.

I thought you had said in the past that you were not gay. Im confused. Which one is it?
I had to ask it..........back on topic now

 

[Haus]

that school should be glad the kid dint do a columbine up in there from being picked on so much. cause thats how those schools shootings started. from the kids getting made fun of and then just finally snapped

 

[Hurt911gen]

ahhhh we need to ban them sports

 

[artisan00]

Re: RE: Bullied teen win's 440k lawsuit against school

no i just think i don't look like a person who would be bullied you know? plus i don't think i look gay on the outside, so people, especially guys, can't always tell that i'm gay unless i tell them.

PS 100% of women i met knew i was gay after they got to know me but not guys.

I thought you had said in the past that you were not gay. Im confused. Which one is it?
I had to ask it..........back on topic now

im confused too...