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High school makes changes in wake of bullying, suicide (QCTimes)

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Jeannie Chambers broke down briefly on a recent shopping trip with daughter, Kayla Weishuhn. Kayla caught her mother looking for clothes in a different section of the store.

“I looked for clothes for K.J.,” Chambers said.

K.J. is Kenneth James Weishuhn Jr., the 14-year-old son she lost April 14 when he committed suicide at their home in Primghar.

Police interviewed at least 16 teens in a follow-up investigation, but they charged no one in connection with K.J.’s death, a death that family members contend might have been avoided were in not for the bullying behavior from a faction of youth at South O’Brien High School, where K.J. was a freshman.

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Complete article at QC Times : http://bit.ly/QgsnBq