Parents notified of seventh-grade student's death

What is the official cause of death?

My Prayers go out to the family, how tragic!

Death and grieving is very private. It is no one's business how the young man passed away, and a blog is no place to discuss personal tragedy unless it's initiated by the survivors.

As a mother, I can't begin to imagine the pain this family is going through. My thoughts and prayers go out to them!

I just wanted to say that I respect what the family is going through right now having lost a child and it's such a horrible tragedy. My son is very upset not knowing who or what happened. Several of his friend's and classmates were not at school yesterday so he is beside himself with worry thinking it is one of them. The not knowing who died is eating at him and it bothers me that I can not help him move past this because really for my son the process of mourning the loss of a classmate can not even start until he knows who died. I know however that the family who lost a child is in a great amount of pain and would like to mourn in private I am sure. It is a very tough situation. So please just remember whatever the community is going through not knowing what happened or who it happened to that the family needs to deal with this in their own way right now. I encouraged my child not to gossip about what might have happened or who it happened to out of respect for the family and that in time more info will be released and so now is just a time of prayers and togetherness until we have more answers.

I could not fathom what I would do if I lost one of my children. My prayers and thoughts are with this family now. May God Bless you in this difficult time.

My heartfelt prayers go out to this family in the death of their child. As a parent who lost a son to a drowning tragedy 11 years ago,I feel deeply for you and would love to help in any way possible. God Bless you and your family!

To the family I want to express how deeply sorry I am for your loss I can not tell you how saddened I am by this. I will pray every day that GOD will comfort you in this rough time and help to heal your hearts. You are in my thoughts GOD BLESS YOU!!!

Extending deep and Heartfelt Sympathy to you & your family. I'm am deeply sorry for the loss of your loved one. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Keep your faith in the lord and he will bless you with the strength to endure and heal. God bless you & your family

Extending deep and Heartfelt Sympathy to you & your family. I'm am deeply sorry for the loss of your loved one. You are in my thoughts and prayers. Keep your faith in the lord and he will bless you with the strength to endure and heal. God bless you & your family

I, too, would like the family to know that warm thoughts and prayers are headed your way. At a time like this, it is essential to respect the privacy of this child and his family members. Please send prayers, but please respect the confidentiality of the family. I also would encourage parents to talk with their children about new words they're hearing in school and discourage the spread of rumors or mistruths. It's so very difficult to deal with the loss of a child-but imagine what it would be like if YOUR child's death was surrounded by rumors. Remember the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you'd have done unto you.

RN4Life:

Very good point, we as a community need to discourage disgusting rumors surrounding a subject such as this. If the family is reading these messages or even walking around the rumors do not help their grieving process. Our focus needs to be on making sure that our children are doing alright in the wake of loosing a friend. My son is a hacker student and a friend of this child and nothing breaks my heart more than hearing how angry he is at school because children are ignorant with their invalid information. So I hope that any adult reading this will talk to your child about speading rumors and the potential harm in spreading them.

Thank you.

Only facts can dispel rumors, which are terrible things.

I, personally went to school with him, and everybody is heartbroken. There are mutiple rumors going around the school and all of my friends just totally discourage all of them. But, along with the rumors, there are, also, a lot of texts going around the school and i can't help but sending them on.

a lot of people, including me, went to the grieving rooms, and we actually made posters and wrote letters to and for him, and posted them all in a room that we made his room. The next day Mrs. Cruser had taken down everything and put it all in a pile to send to his family. Everyone was mad because she had promised us that she would leave it up for a week. '

There is an inside look at the past few days.

Dear i miss him: Sweetheart, this is a terrible time for you, your classmates, and the person's family. I'm so sorry. There's only the usual things to say, like "take things a day at a time" and "just hang in there." The reason they're said so often is they are true, really they are.

Accept the help you are being given. You will be able to get through this.

its a shame... this boy didnt even get to live his life! breaks my heart=( my gf lives close to the boy and she was completely heart broken when she heard. i hate it when this stuff happens

As a former student at Hacker Middle School, I am deeply sadden. I live in Moscow, Idaho. I wish I can be with all my friends that are still at Hacker Middle school, I was in special ED at there.

Rocketman, how can you say it's no one's business? Have you ever thought that maybe that child who died has friends else where in the world? Obviously, no you haven't. Every person at that school is my friend, even if they teased me, called me names, made me cry. I still want know what happened. I am sad, I am mad.

The only way to avoid rumors is to be honest. I can imagine how terrible it must feel for the students to be told one of their friends passed away, but not be told who. Its not healthy for them just to assume that every student who stayed home sick that day probably passed away. How could they do that and NOT expect rumors? As soon as they sent out that letter they made it everyone`s business. The students have a right to know what happened to their friend. I am deeply sorry for everyone involved, especially the young person who passed away.

http://www.mountainhomenews.com/story/1481226.html

I really do miss him!