Kirk here. The other day I shared a news article about a settlement reached between the parents of a girl who had committed suicide and her bullies. Here’s a link to that article:
The article I’m sharing today is about a similar incident (i.e. involving bullying and a suicide) but one where the suicide occurred five years earlier (in 2013). According to the article, Kumamoto Prefecture had blackened out portions of the report so that the parents could not see the names of the students that were thought to be involved in the bullying. The parents had to take the prefecture to the Supreme Court in order to get access to an uncensored version of the report. I can understand not publishing the names of the accused students on the internet but why not show the full report to the parents? I find it hard to understand what the prefectural officials were thinking.
P.S. I’m pretty sure that the prefecture had to pay a lot of legal fees (lawyer’s salaries, etc.) to resist the parents’ reasonable demands. That’s money supplied by everyone who pays taxes in Kumamoto – and I’m certain not pleased to imagine my tax yen being used in that way. 😠
