Is School Speakers Talk Dangerous?
The suicide death of a 12-year-old Ohio boy following a traveling evangelist’s anti-drug and anti-suicide presentation at his school has raised questions about the validity of the speaker’s program, which includes a tape recording of an actual suicide. In Wooster, Ohio, and a handful of other communities across the nation where the Kansas-based speaker has appeared at schools recently, teachers and mental-health officials say the dramatic one-man presentation has upset many students unnecessarily and prompted a surge in calls to suicide-prevention hotlines. And some argue that his religious orientation makes him an unsuitable…
