Montana Lance: 9-Yr-Old Found Hanged at Stewarts Creek Elementary

Other children picking on you at school. Degrading and taking away your self esteem. Parents who expect their children to come home with passing grades. I remember being 10 years old. I set the alarm clock off at my grandfathers wake. I got scolded and it hurt my feelings big time. I went out and set by the well and was going to jump in. The only reason I didn't was because I was afraid of snakes and frogs. But I did take a rusty nail and try to cut my leg with it hopeing I would get led poisoning. My Dad saw me out there and came to talk to me. He told me how wrong it was and that he loved me. Children are so sensitive and they can't see past the fog when they feel they are deep in over their head. I got lucky, my father reached out to my problem and helped me to over come my tendency. Children are loving gifts and when you unwrap them you better expect to wrap them back up. No child is a failure and no child needs to be turned on. So many teachers make examples out of children acting out of line. My grandson was told by his third grade teacher in the Birdville District that he was going to have to sit in a room by himself because he was failing. That he would not get to open presents with the other children. Third grade mind you. This same teacher did it again to him on field day. Made him sit at the table and do make up work while all the other kids went to play and enjoy the coming of summer. This is what does children in. It's called degrading the spirit of the child. Everyone needs to take into consideration that these little people do have feelings and thoughts. To treat a child below that of being human it can result in a child taking matters into their own hands.  My only advise is to learn and listen when it comes to children. Listen to what they have to tell you when they want to tell you regardless of how much of your time it takes up. There are clues in every breath a child takes. Take the time to listen. Carol Grandmother of 7 beautiful grandchildren  

Umm...where did it say he was in the school bathroom??? and do you really think a 9 year old is capable of even knowing how to do this? NO!!! No one says he was murdered by a pedophile...that's way out there. Obviously you are not as close as you think.

I meant to say nurse's bathroom. No where does it say that.

maybe you did it, know who did it or maybe why he did it (to himself) nothing in the news anywhere mentions a nurses bathroom.  You sound so knowlegable about the situation but so cold, no care, no sympathy, no consideration, no respect!.  I am sure you are an older adult and to think that way or have that mentality?  That says alot about you.

i am a student in the district where this happened and i was also a victim of bullying and i am here to tell you that the school district cant help everyone with their bullying issues. i was bullied for 4 years and i still deal with it. the district cant take on the responsibility of helping everyone no matter how hard they try. i know for a fact that they show videos of bullying awareness about 2 times a year and that still cant stop the kids that do it. the point is that there is always going to be punks that do that and if they are willing to take the chance of breaking the rules and bullying, then them being told to stop wont help any better. it is just physically impossible for all of them to help every student because EVERY student in the school gets bullied. everyone picks on everyone else, and no matter how many parents get together to try to "fix it" it will never be fixed because there is no way to "fix it"

Why are you upset with the school district?  What are they supposed to do about bullying?  If they tell the PARENT of the bully, all they get is lawsuit threats and finger pointing.  If they beat the hell out of the kid, they go to jail.  What do you want?  Maybe if parents these days quit sounding like idiots like you, and actually started raising their own children instead of leaving it to the government, we might not have problems like this.  I know when I was a kid, the rule was...If someone picks a fight with me, I finish it...If I pick a fight, win lose or draw, when I got home...I lost.  Take control of your own children...teach them yourself...QUIT pumping them out like rabbits if you have no intention of raising them YOURSELF.

My granddaughter was bullied at David E Smith Elementary in Haltom City, Texas. We went through the same run around. Teacher didn't want to help and thr principal didn't seem to bother with it either. The best thing for any parent who goes through their child being mistreated by a teacher or student is to go to the shool demand the child or teacher be called to the office and call the police and press charges for asult. The kids who bully should be arrested and taken to a juneville holding tank and parents should have to pay a fine to get the child back. My blood boils when I think of kids who bully in school drive a child to take his or her own life. I would hate to be the kids that are part of causing this child to go this far and take his life. That's a haunting dark secret to live with knowning you made fun of someone and they killed themselves. Rest in peace Montana Carol

It's not about what happened at the LISD school. IT's a wake up call that something needs to be done about school bullies. No one knows about the case because the press squashed the details. It brings awareness to readers that something is fishy. Of course there will be rumors in any incident involving a suicide. This doesn't mean our heart doesn't go out to the family. Believe me  their pain is felt by everyone. Montana is now in the Arms of an Angel and he's headed home. Gone too soon. Carol

he was only in the bathroom for 10 mins (i read a more ditaled story on this)