Top $76,000-a-year New Jersey boarding school admits 'more should have been done' to stop bullying of boy, 17, who took his own life after being falsely accused of rape for a year by cruel peers​
Jack Reid, 17, a student at Lawrenceville School in New Jersey took his own life after being bullied by other students
A year after his death a school statement recognizes the failure of the school to protect Jack noting how inaction by teaching staff contributed to his death
School has committed to taking corrective actions including appointing a new dean who will be responsible for dealing with mental health issues
If you are having thoughts of suicide, call or text 988 to reach the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline or go to SpeakingOfSuicide.com/resources

An elite New Jersey boarding school has admitted that 'more should have been done' after a student took his own life in his dorm room following a year of bullying by his peers.

Jack Reid, 17, attended The Lawrenceville School, between Trenton and Princeton, where tuition is $76,000 a year.

He died on April 30, 2022, but in the 12 months leading up to his death he had become the victim of a vicious bullying campaign that consisted of cruel and malicious rumors that labelled him as a campus rapist.

The rumors were made up by fellow students and were said to Jack both in person and posted anonymously online thereby spreading the story beyond the campus walls.

During a secret Santa gift exchange among his classmates, Jack was given a rape whistle together with a book about how to make friends.



Tuition a The Lawrenceville School, located between Trenton and Princeton in New Jersey $76,000 a year and is said to be one of the top ten boarding schools in the country

'As we seek to improve as a community, we have examined our role and take responsibility for what we could have done differently. Lawrenceville's top priority is the physical, social, and emotional health, safety, and wellbeing of our students. We recognize that in Jack's case, we fell tragically short of these expectations,' the statement read.

'Jack was universally regarded as an extremely kind and good-hearted young man, with an unwavering sense of social and civic responsibility and a bright future. We continue to mourn this loss,' the school wrote in the statement noting how a settlement had been reached with his parents, William and Elizabeth Reid.

The agreement requires the school, which hosts 830 students, to undertake a series of corrective actions, including creating a new dean's position that will focus on mental health issues, with the goal of becoming a model for anti-bullying and student mental health.

'We think bullying, with the 1,000 times echo chamber of the internet and everybody knowing, is much more devastating to kids and, in Jack's case, produced a very impulsive act,' Jack's dad, William Reid, said

'We feel like we both have life sentences without the possibility of parole,' Jack's mother, Dr. Elizabeth Reid, a clinical psychologist, said to the New York Times.

'The only thing I'd love to change here is to get Jack back. I can't. I do know if he were alive, he would want me — both of us — to try to make something good out of this and honor him in the way he lived his life.'

'We think bullying, with the 1,000 times echo chamber of the internet and everybody knowing, is much more devastating to kids and, in Jack's case, produced a very impulsive act,' dad, William Reid said.

'He had to escape the pain from the humiliation he was feeling.'

The school explained how after a student who previously had been disciplined for bullying Jack was expelled for an unrelated violation of school rules, Jack was allowed to return the school but was left largely unsupervised where students gathered.

'Some harsh words were said about Jack,' the school revealed adding that administrators did not notify or check on Jack once he was back on campus.

Later that night, Jack, who was a Dean's list student, took his own life, telling a friend that he could not go through the ordeal again.

He had a bible in one pocket of his gym shorts, as well as a note directing his parents to a Google document, in which he described his helplessness.

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who randomly starts a rape rumour?

usually crazy women

True. And he does look like a nice guy nerd. My guess is some girls found his behaviour creepy and then rumours of his creepiness permeated around college until he roped. Feelsbadman

over for jackcels


imagine getting bullied for "raping" a girl. I swear not too long ago you would have been the cool kid in class that lost his V card, even if it was done in a shady way

Imagine paying triple the amount of money it costs to pay for annual tuition at most undergrad state colleges send your kid to an ultra elite private high school, only to have some bullshiiiit like this happen. That's gotta be devestating.

Also, I am getting to a point where I think false rape claims are probably just as common as actual rape cases, especially when the accused are people you'd never have any reason to suspect of it other than based strictly on a sloot's unverifiable claims against them.

Read the OP posting of the article. You don't even need to click on it. This was a 17 year old high school kid at an elite boarding school, not a college guy.

stfu i aint even american, you're lucky i even used the word college because we say university here

I don't care if you aren't American; you're borderline retarded to confuse the concepts of college and high school regardless of your nationality.

high school ends at 16 here, so we wouldnt call it high school you dumb fuk

that what happens when you raise your kids to be snowflakes.. he shouldve felt proud and kept clapping cheeks and breaking skulls of his bullies

respect is everything in life

this

its 2023
if you haven't been metood twice are you even going outside?

Are you saying we shouldn’t #BelieveAllWomen??

Da phuck makes a high school worth paying $76,000 tuition a year?

lol at paying tuition just to come out a wagecuck in the end

NJ def has the worst bullying I have ever seen.

90% sure that is an all male school and the rape rumor was about him raping a dude.


Also nothing suggesting it is true or not at any point in article.

Totally this.
Now bullies are defending women’s rights? Fuk is going on in this world.

good

world doesnt need more beta males

imagine killing yourself cuz someone made fun of you? LMAO!

This. I can't tell if he was accused of rape or some other kids (males and/or females) just started a rumor.

Pretty phuken sick on their part.

He shouldve just raped the sloot if he was gonma get accused of it anyway

Might aswell get the nut

Sounds like just a rumor. Easy target.

Damn. Nothing like coffee and misc first thing in the morning.

almost certainly this. not even worth talking to women unless they are clearly into you. thats why I don't talk to unattractive women period. you have nothing to gain and only can lose if she somehow misinterprets your politeness/kindness.

thing is thats a rich rich school. those kids

1) will pretend like they all loved him post-death and
2) forget about him by late-Summerbackstory asian woman took mattress to graduation ceremony at Ivy league. more likely she fukd some whitecel who with his high IQ realized that dating an Asian woman is the most pathetic, overt sign that you are a total loser.

thats why you never see Asian women with desirable white men.

Brutal

He couldn't handle the banter.

His mates were mad jelly that he was the one who got his dink wet while the rest were virgins.

Or he and his male buddy got down and dirty people found out and the straight dude had to scream rape.


I wonder if this 80k a year boarding schools are just like the tv shows, the campus photo already looks like an elite school from movies.

If you think the bullies in a regular public high school are bad, I can only imagine how insufferable the pricks would be at a private boarding high school that costs 80K a year. That’s a whole other level of people thinking their **** don’t stink. If you’re ugly or act weird/lack social skills in that environment I’d imagine that an actual prison would probably be more welcoming.

Few things:

It's very "normalizing" that even the ultra rich bully each other.

But I would think that families "in the know" about the school all have generations of family that went there, you would think they would pass down social conditioning that would make him more alpha/cut-throat.

That being said, why didn't he just ask his rich parents to move to a rich school in cali?

In all fairness, that shiiit happens at public schools, too. I went to a private school as a kid, half my friends were public school kids from my neighborhood. I'll never forget how the 2 or 3 times one of the kids (in a public school of about 1,000 students or some chit) of their school tragically died (not talking due to bullying issues, but in general), they were wearing rubber bracelets with the kids' name on it, would talk about what amazing person they were, and shower all of this attention on their memory post-death. Meanwhile, I had literally never heard them speak of them once while they were still alive, but suddenly they were destined for sainthood to these people now that they died? I mean, come on...