http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-28/teen-sues-victoria's-education-department-after-ongoing-bullying/7206170

So a 15 year old kid is holding the government to ransom and everyone just stands by and watches on?

He has tried to kill himself twice and he continues to harm himself because he is bullied at school about his sexuality. This is the undoubted reason for his destructive behaviour because he has told us so and no 15 year old could ever be mistaken about the causes of his own behaviour. It makes perfect sense to kill yourself because you are being bullied. Being bullied is absolutely the worst possible thing that you could ever experience in life and so no one could blame him for wanting to end it all. It is heaps worse than kids suffering from leukaemia or other life threatening and excruciating diseases. It makes being a 15 year old Syrian refugee whose complete family have been blown to bits seem like a piece of cake.

When is the media going to get some perspective on these issues and stop reporting these drama queens as victims of the state? He tried to kill himself twice. Is he seeking attention or just particularly clumsy? Where are the psychologists? Do they just take the analysis of a 15 year old kid and rubber stamp it? He is obviously a very disturbed person and not because he is bullied. There are many kids who are bullied just as much as him but never go anywhere near suicide. What is it about his mental state that produces such an exaggerated response?

He claims he is bullied for his sexuality and yet talks of being called useless and a pig as well so which is it? Is he the only kid ever to be called useless or a pig.

What the hell is his mother doing? It has been going on for two years and he still remains at that school? If it has been as bad as is claimed most parents would have moved to the moon to stop their kid from suffering like that.

phanto, I fail to see the relevance between kids suffering from leukemia, or a 15 year old Syrian refugee, and this kids problem. Your offhanded cynical comment about this lad is unwarranted, he has a defined problem, bullying. Legal action is a right which we all have when we think we have been injured in some way by another party, in this case the Victorian Education Department. What is your point? Possibly you are motivated by a homophobic problem of your own, or are you simply a school bully yourself, who feels fully justified in your own actions, given the bigger problems of leukemia sufferers and Syrian refugees.

Phanto, society as a whole is suffering badly from 'limp wrist syndrome' in my view as what is needed in many cases is a good old dose of harden the - up. How this stuff even hits the media is a sign of just what we have become.

As for the parents, very few 15 year olds would have the whits about them to do such a thing, so chances are the parents are behind this for some sought of money grab.

This will however be closely watched as if successful, may open a huge can of worms with kids, backed by cash strapped parents, suing government and even private schools as a hobby.

Political correctness has a big part to play here as well as so many gestures are considered to be sexists these days.

Ok I am a senior citizen and perhaps had a different time and life, when we didn't talk about recycling as we just did it. I never realised it was bullying when my mate and I were pursued by a huge amount of fellow students . It was just part of school life that some get picked on and others not. It didn't harm me rather it ended up creating me as a person I am. When I was in management in the 1970's I immediately banned anyone to use inappropriate words, call a person by a nick name, etc. This because I knew how it can affect person. Today one can be a sooky and end up no where. Today you can sue anyone for basically nothing and pretend it is serious. Yesterday I happen to incur a 10 centimetre wound on my arm that female staff member at the shop nearly fainted, so I just cracked jokes and another staff member then attended to me. No use of getting upset about all the blood. I grew up in a time when you had a spine. You didn't complain about every little thing. And the kids of today are to vulnerable because they are kept in cotton wool and cannot stand hardship in life.

Yes, Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, you're a real tough guy. Everyone should be as tough as you. I reckon everyone should be a captain if industry like you, if they're not they're lazy bludgers. Everyone should be top of the heap in everything and it's only because they're weak that they aren't. And what about those wimps who get sick and go to doctors, they should harden up don't you reckon? Getting beaten up and tormented in school so you're too terrified to go is good for boys...makes them real men like you.

Yes, lets all tell the teenagers today to harden up, well not while they're watching porn obviously.

Of course, trivialising a suicidal depressive teenagers feelings over being bullied and blaming the parents for not doing enough is the only way of dealing with this bullying non-problem.

Or so I've heard.

Douchebags.