What do you make of this?

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Eleven-year-old Jaheem Herrera woke up on April 16 acting strangely. He wasn't hungry and he didn't want to go to school.

But the outgoing fifth grader packed his bag and went to school at Dunaire Elementary School in DeKalb County, Georgia.

He came home much happier than when he left in the morning, smiling as he handed his mother, Masika Bermudez, a glowing report card full of A's and B's. She gave him a high-five and he went upstairs to his room as she prepared dinner.

A little later, when his younger sister called him to come down to eat, Jaheem didn't answer.

So mother and daughter climbed the stairs to Jaheem's room and opened the door.

Jaheem was hanging by his belt in the closet.

"I always used to see these things on TV, dead people on the news," says Bermudez. "I saw somebody die and to see this dead person is your son, hanging there, a young boy. ... To hang yourself like that, you've got to really be tired of something."

Bermudez says bullies at school pushed Jaheem over the edge.

Now taking the sexuality arguements about this case aside, what do you make out of bullying, and the suicides that sometimes occur due to said acts?

Now I have seen several outcomes due to bullying, as I think we all have seen:
Extreme violence against the percieved bully(ies), sometimes leading to death of multiple individuals.
Fighting back against the bully.
Bullying ending on its own.
Bullied taking the continued negative events.
Bullied removing themselves from the situation, sometimes leading to their own death.

Now kids, can be very VERY cruel. I am sure many of us know this first hand, maybe some of us were on the other side of the coin when they were younger. And I am sure that there must be acts like this story in the past, that maybe weren't as well publisized, irregardless, are these events more frequent than in the past? If that is the case, why? If that is not the case, does this make this story less important, or make it less significant?