Heartbreak in Urbandale: A mother’s plea for others to be kind following her son’s death

URBANDALE, Iowa (KCCI) — An Urbandale mother is calling for change that she says starts at home. Her 15-year-old son, Miles Phipps, died by suicide earlier this month when she says the “final nail in the coffin” was when a substitute teacher misgendered him and doubled down on the stance after he corrected the teacher.

“If people were more kind, we wouldn’t be here,” said Ashley Campbell, Miles’ mother.

Campbell says kindness might have saved her son…

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