Two years ago, a third-party committee established by the city's board of education regarding the suicide of a female junior high school student in Kobe city said that it was presumed that bullying at school had a strong influence on her suicide, and said, ``Multiple stresses. It overlapped and led to suicide, ”he published a report.
In September the year before last, a third-year junior high school girl in Tarumizu Ward, Kobe City, committed suicide, and her parents complained that there was a possibility of bullying. and have investigated.
On the 9th, the committee compiled an investigation report and submitted it to Superintendent Jun Nagata.
In the report, ``When I was in the third grade, I was treated as 'dirty' in the class, and I was bullied.
On top of that, he concluded that ``multiple stresses overlapped, such as being reprimanded by parents for poor grades and career problems, leading to suicide.''
He also pointed out that the girl student had been bullied in the past and that the school had neglected it, and that suicide could have been prevented if the school had responded appropriately.
A lawyer for the bereaved family said, ``The parents were not informed about the bullying at all from the school, and they continued to blame themselves for not noticing it, and they were shocked.''
Nagata, superintendent of the city board of education, said in a statement, "We will work hard to prevent recurrence so that such a tragic incident never happens again."