Dallas School Staff Finds 9-Year-Old Boy Hanging in Bathroom

Summary:
This article was about this 9 year old boy who hung himself in the bathroom, this happened last Thursday. The father was trying to deny it because he didn't want him to die.

Reflection:
This article is important because a 9 year old boy committed suicide when he had a lot of stuff ahead of him. This article affected that school because now they are going to watch the kids more carefully now, also they had a bunch of police and investigators come to the school to investigate and no one so far is getting charged for any crimes so that means that they are pretty sure that it was a suicide. This happened in Dallas, Texas. They had a note on the bulletin saying "you are our super hero, we love you and miss you dearly.This is meant for the kid who committed suicide. Suicides happen rarely with young children,

Evidence:

Associated Press.  Dallas School Staff Finds 9-Year-Old Boy Hanging in Bathroom. 
Friday January, 2010.

Focus Adolescent Service

Title: This Article was about the statistics of teen suicide and the prevention of it.

Summary:
How you can tell if your kid is starting to have thoughts about suicide is, If his personality has changed over the few weeks and he has seemed depressed, dramatic mood swings. Then I would watch out for thoughts of suicide. If parents have firearms in their household with a teenage kid, that how most teenagers try to commit suicide. There was just a kid that just committed suicide the other day and he hung himself at school, he was only 9 years old. This is really sad.

Reflection: This article shocked me because a 9 year old kid died of committing suicide we need to start raising awareness of teenage suicide, it is not cool that kids die because of other people who bully or are rejected by their friends.

Questions: Why do kids decide to put their lives at stake?


No Name. "Focus Adolescent Service." Teenage Suicide. Thursday January, 2010.

Teen Suicide #1

This article was about facts and statistics about teenage suicide here are the information that i found in the article. There were some interesting facts about it, so here they are.

Kids get thoughts of suicide are divorced parents, rejected from friends, depressed, and death of someone important. Teen females are likely to commit suicide then males but older males are more likely to commit suicide then females. Here are some numbers on teen suicide: More than 13 of 100,00 teens from 15-24 committed suicide in 1990. Teen suicides have tripled the amount since 1970.

I thought what struck me was how many teens it bounced up from in the last 30 years, that is just really shocking to me.It is scary how many teens die in a year that have committed suicide.

No name, "Teen Suicide (Teenage Suicide, Teenager Suicide."

Yutopian online.

26 January, 2010

Essential Question:

Essential Question: What leads teems to want to end their lives? and how can we prevent more teen deaths?

We chose this topic because it is a big issue in the United States and it is not good for teenagers to think of committing suicide and my partner and I don't really know a lot about it and so we wanted to get more involved and learn about this important issue that hase caused a lot of teen deaths.