Te student had been attacked previously by the same girl and had requested protection from school administrators. In 2017, Prince George’s County Public Schools in Maryland was
ordered by a jury to pay $100,000 to the family of a 9-year-old stu- dent whose beating on the school bus was captured on video taken by other students with their cellphones. According to news reports, the beating left the girl with a concussion and post-traumatic stress disorder.
A lawsuit filed in Ohio in October by the mother of a student charges that the Hudson School District did not do enough to prevent repeated bullying of her son, who was eventually removed and home schooled. Te bullying began on the bus in elementary school. Te mother said her son has had his head slammed into the bus window and has suffered multiple concussions.
BULLYCIDE Te impact of bullying is manifest in a number of ways,
according to the U.S. Department of Education. Bullied students can experience lower academic achievement, higher absenteeism, poor relationships, loneliness, depression and withdrawal. All are roadblocks to getting an education which the Fed has determined
elevates bullying and harassment to civil rights issues. “Statistics from the Center for Disease Control indicate we lose 20 kids a day from the after effects of being bullied,” said Lori Jetha, spokeswoman for United Against Bullying, a program promoted by her employers Safe Fleet and Seon. “Tey feel they cannot go on with their lives.” She said punishing the bully is not the answer because “a lot of bullies were bullied so they’re perpetuating the problem.” Te number of suicides are increasing and the ages of the students committing suicide are declining. A new word was coined by a Colorado mother whose 10-year- old daughter hung herself late last year after a fight with a bully—bullycide. An 11-year-old South Carolina girl shot and killed herself
in October because she could not take being bullied at school any longer. In 2016, an 11-year-old cancer survivor in Ohio shot herself because she was constantly bullied about her smile, which was crooked because of the permanent nerve damage caused by the radiation treatments she underwent to treat a brain tumor she’d had since she was 3 years old. A 13-year-old California girl took her life last month because
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