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School District Agrees to Pay $3 Million After a Bullied Boy, 8, Killed HimselfGabriel, who tried to avoid fighting and talked eagerly about learning, was not known as a “cool kid,” according to a teacher, the complaint said. At first, he excelled academically at Carson, which starts at pre-K and goes to the sixth grade. In the first and second grade, Gabriel came home from school with injuries, including two loose teeth. School officials told the boy’s mother, Cornelia Reynolds, that he had an accident on the playground. But in the third grade, Gabriel’s grades began to drop and the injuries got worse. Ms. Reynolds, a nurse, began to suspect that her son was being bullied. He would come home with a scraped knee, a bruised elbow or wrist, or a twisted ankle. School officials rarely told Ms...