In the middle of class today some of my kids were talking sort of harassing each other when one of then says “just go kill yourself”. I stopped class immediately and told then that I absolutely will not tolerate comments like that. It is not funny, it is not ok, and they should never be joking about such a serious issue. After about 10 seconds of dead silence, we continued with the lesson. After class two girls came up to me and thanked me for saying something. They said most of their teachers and other adults just ignore things like that and they really appreciate that I shut it down. When did it become ok to make light of an exploding problem that is sweeping through our teenage population? What are you doing to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem?