{"id":35235,"date":"2013-04-22T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=35235"},"modified":"2019-01-24T09:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T17:08:13","slug":"westside-school-district-to-host-forum-addressing-suicide-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/04\/22\/westside-school-district-to-host-forum-addressing-suicide-bullying\/","title":{"rendered":"Westside School District to host forum on suicide, bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_34927\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34927\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Nigel-Hardy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34927 \" alt=\"Nigel Hardy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Nigel-Hardy-257x300.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Nigel-Hardy-257x300.jpg 257w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Nigel-Hardy.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-34927\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nigel Hardy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PALMDALE<b> \u2013 <\/b>In the wake of the tragic suicide of 13-year-old Hillview Middle School student Nigel Hardy, Westside Union School District has announced plans to hold a forum for the community to ask questions and raise concerns.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Westside Union School District Community Forum will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 24<\/strong> at Hillview Middle School, located at 40525 Peonza Lane in Palmdale.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers will provide information on suicide prevention, coping with loss, and school safety issues, including combating bullying, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are heartbroken over this tragedy,&#8221; stated District Superintendent Regina Rossall. &#8220;Any time we lose a child, we have to ask ourselves what happened and if there is anything we could have done better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want the forum to be one more step in the community&#8217;s effort to understand and cope with this loss as well as talk about what we all can do to prevent these tragedies,&#8221; Rossall continued.<\/p>\n<p>Seventh grader Nigel Hardy reportedly shot himself in the head in a Rosamond restaurant on April 15 and was pronounced dead at Antelope Valley Hospital a short time later. The teen\u2019s family had reported him missing that morning, after his father found a suicide note in Nigel\u2019s room and discovered that his handgun was missing, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The 13-year-old had been despondent over an incident at school that resulted in him being temporarily suspended, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Wednesday\u2019s Community Forum, contact Westside Union School District at 661-722-0716.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Information via press release from Westside Union School District.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Previous related stories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"JetHawks to raise money for the family of Nigel Hardy\" href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/04\/20\/jethawks-to-raise-money-for-the-family-of-nigel-hardy\/\" target=\"_blank\">JetHawks to raise money for the family of Nigel Hardy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Hundreds attend tearful vigil for teen who committed suicide\" href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/04\/19\/hundreds-attend-tearful-vigil-for-teen-who-committed-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hundreds attend tearful vigil for teen who committed suicide<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"School District responds to Hillview student suicide\" href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/04\/16\/school-district-responds-to-hillview-student-suicide\/\" target=\"_blank\">School District responds to Hillview student suicide<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"UPDATED: 13-year-old dead, suicide suspected\" href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/04\/15\/authorities-searching-for-suicidal-teen-possibly-armed\/\" target=\"_blank\">13-year-old dead, suicide suspected<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 In the wake of the tragic suicide of 13-year-old Hillview Middle School student Nigel Hardy, Westside Union School District has announced plans to hold a forum for the community to ask questions and raise concerns. The Westside Union School District Community Forum will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, April 24 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,11,1491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}