11/13/2024
Jose. That is his name. He was just a boy trying to play football and be accepted by his peers when they let him down. Not only did they let him down, but they pushed him down.
I try so hard not to get emotionally attached to these stories anymore but this one hurts. Jose was bullied to su***de because he was homeless, living in a shelter with his Dad and because he didn’t have a Mom. Imagine being a teenager with no Mom and living in a shelter with your Dad but still going to school and playing sports trying to be normal and everyone around you is laughing at you and mocking you. I feel grief, sadness and anger all at the same time right now.
Humans need to do better. Parents, schools, and kids need to do better. Idk if bullying will ever stop but it’s always the weaker ones or the ones in weaker circumstances that are being bullied.
Last week, 14-year-old Jose Zamora took his own life. Since then, school officials and police have been trying to get to the bottom of the boy’s death. Zamora’s father, Jose Bautista, said his son’s teammates on the football team bullied him for being homeless and motherless, spitting on him and hitting him in the back of his helmet.
After being evicted from their apartment earlier this year, the boy and his father were staying at the Bill Wilson Center in Santa Clara.
Jose has only been a freshman at Santa Clara High School for a few months prior to his death. His father has said Zamora was struggling with mental health issues.
I will link the Go Fund me in the bio.
Question: Have you ever been bullied before?