{"id":848062,"date":"2025-05-13T19:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/lawsuit-claims-teacher-shamed-fifth-grade-student-who-passed-away-by-suicide\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T00:12:30","slug":"lawsuit-claims-teacher-shamed-fifth-grade-student-who-passed-away-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/13\/lawsuit-claims-teacher-shamed-fifth-grade-student-who-passed-away-by-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit claims teacher shamed fifth-grade student who passed away by suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-9007722\">\n<div>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/newsfinale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rewrite-this-title-Teacher-humiliated-5th-grader-who-died-by.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"800\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/newsfinale.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/rewrite-this-title-Teacher-humiliated-5th-grader-who-died-by-800x430.jpg\" alt=\"Teacher 'humiliated' 5th grader who died by suicide: Lawsuit\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  >\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<div id=\"post-body\">\n<div id=\"attachment_522020\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-522020\">Background: Legacy Elementary School in Marion County, Fla. (WCJB\/YouTube). Inset: 11-year-old Louis Johnson III (GoFundMe).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The parents of a Florida fifth grader who took his own life after allegedly being bullied by a teacher, who is accused of recruiting other students to mock the boy, have sued the school district where she worked.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Johnson III died by suicide in April 2023, at the age of 10, according to a wrongful-death lawsuit filed in early April by his parents, Louis Johnson Jr. and Tyka Johnson. The lawsuit says that Louis was subjected to extreme bullying, sometimes led by a staff member, Louis\u2019 own teacher Donna White.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. White constantly, consistently, and relentlessly publicly humiliated minor child Louis Johnson, III in front of this peers, calling him \u2018stupid\u2019 and ridiculing him in front of his classmates on several occasions over the span of months,\u201d the complaint says. White also allegedly \u201cwould also recruit other students to ridicule minor child Louis Johnson III and ask these other minor student classmates to agree with her comments that Louis Johnson, III was \u2018stupid\u2019 and that he \u2018didn\u2019t know anything.\u201d\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section>\n<p><amp-ad width=\"100vw\" height=\"320\" type=\"adsense\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-7681743349234267\" data-ad-slot=\"8363188139\" data-auto-format=\"rspv\" data-full-width><\/p>\n<p><\/amp-ad><\/p>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p> NewsFinale Journal<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/newsfinale.com\/crime\/lawsuit-claims-teacher-shamed-fifth-grade-student-who-passed-away-by-suicide\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: Legacy Elementary School in Marion County, Fla. (WCJB\/YouTube). Inset: 11-year-old Louis Johnson III (GoFundMe). The parents of a Florida fifth grader who took his own life after allegedly being bullied by a teacher, who is accused of recruiting other students to mock the boy, have sued the school district where she worked. 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