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Student who jumped off high school roof was bullied, parents say - latimes.com

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Student who jumped off high school roof was bullied, parents say

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Days after their 15-year-old son died after jumping off of a third-story building at his high school, the parents of Drew Ferraro said they learned by reading his journal that he had been bullied by classmates in the last months of his life.

"There was name-calling, pushing down the hall, pulling his backpack, punching him in the back," his mother, Deana Ferraro, said in an interview with KCBS-TV.

Drew Ferraro, a sophomore at Crescenta Valley High School, leaped from the top of the building overlooking the school quad, falling to the ground when other students were nearby eating lunch.

Los Angeles Unified previously said bullying hadn't been a factor in the suicide, and Ferraro said she