I hate to be a killjoy here, but I have no clue who this Adam fella is, nor do I care.  How did this thread turn into a discussion on a current news-topic into a thread that is apparently bashing someone?  I thought this forum was for neighbors to discuss neighborhood issues and current topics in the news, etc...

Wanted to share this for quite some time but chickened out every time I went to post it.  It’s not something you really want to share.  But I thought I would this time.  Maybe it might help someone someday.  I know it sure would have helped us maybe to have talked to someone who had gone thru the same thing.  Something happened to my son at HJH this past year.  We don’t know what because he won’t say.  But whatever happened,  must have been so bad and humiliating because he refused to go back to school,  became suicidal, wouldn’t let anyone touch him,  and deleted all his friends numbers out of his phone and will have nothing to do with them anymore or anything that has to do with that school.   It has been a very long 6 months for us.  My son is nice respectful,  popular,  athletic young man.  My husband and I have gone round and round with the VP of HJH trying to find alternate solutions for our son to continue the school year.  There are no solutions.  The VP never did any type of investigation but I guess it would be hard to do that when you don’t know what happened.  My son is much better now that he knows he will never have to step foot back in that school.  He is seeing a psychologist and we are hopeful that he will trust him enough to open up and tell him what happened.  It will take time.  This is the toughest thing a parent can go through.  All we can say is,  watch for the signs. If their attitude changes,  they complain about school,  complain about feeling sick,  love a sport and then for some reason not want to participate - those are all signs……signs we missed.  We just kept pushing him because that’s what parents do.  “Sorry son,  you have to go to school.”  “Well,  you signed up for it,  you have to attend.”  We just thought it was puberty – a teenage thing.  How would we have known?  How could we have known?  We just hope to one day find out what happened but above all else,  that our son is able to heal and move on.   If anyone has any suggestions of alternate schools for 7^th – 9^th grade,  please post.  We are on a waiting list for Tree Tops Academy charter school.   Thank you. 

I am so sorry to read about your son.  You might check into schools that have open enrollment.  It is a drive but my son has been so much happier since leaving Bell and now attends Brewer High school.