On the one-year anniversary of a student's death, The Lawrenceville School, an elite boarding school in New Jersey released a statement publicly admitting its failure.
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 5:15PMThe Lawrenceville School in New Jersey accepted responsibility and settled with the family of Jack Reid after the 17-year-old took his life in April 2022.On the one-year anniversary of a student's death, an elite boarding school in New Jersey released a statement publicly admitting its failure.
The school said in its statement that it had been made aware of the bullying and "cruel behavior" toward Jack and "there were steps that the school should have taken in hindsight and did not." It promised to make changes and do better. In the spring of 2021, an untrue rumor spread across The Lawrenceville School campus that Jack, who was a junior in high school at the time, had committed sexual assault by kissing a girl. Then, in September 2021, a false claim that Jack was a rapist was posted anonymously to a nationwide student app, in a letter from the school obtained by ABC.
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