Bullying, Harassment, Assault, Teen Suicide, Bullying the Bully ...When do we reach Enough?

Teen Bullying: Special Series
by Lucinda Franks

Lucinda Franks is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who was on the staff of the New York Times and has written for the New Yorker and the New York Times Book Review and Magazine. Her latest book is My Father's Secret War, about her father, who was a spy for the OSS during World War II.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-31/teen-bullying-special-series/tmz?obref=obinsite

I strongly encourage you to read through comments following each post. Ponder this question: Any wonder our children are lost and bullying is the epidemic and escalated violence that it has become?



As for the fallen sparrow?
I had made a promise as we read Dear Daisy together...now, yet
another There, me here…
I would not ignore nor turn my back on sparrows needing voice. Their song would be heard.


Editorial as written by author, Jane Marla VerDow to newspaper (2004)

Not Just Kids Play
"...Though our emotional shock is focused on the attack(s) may we remember that failure to provide, failure to act is an equal atrocity under terms of child abuse laws. As I read her article I noted: 2nd grade to fifth grade (time), multiple attacks (events to document), progressive violence (pattern), children reporting and demonstrating symptoms (victim voices), adults knowing (witness), policies written (criteria). What proof of circumstance are we looking for or who’s voice are we waiting to hear before action can lead towards a path to peaceful resolution?..."

"...Before we drift back to sleep dreams may we open our eyes and ears to realize that this is not an isolated event reported one day in a newspaper, our newspaper. Bullying is real and children are unprepared to face this alone or to resolve what society creates on pathways where justice is denied. We all are invested in the outcome. By what higher standards will we each hold ourselves accountable? Time will tell the story. While time passes and the Summer Sun provides its light may we reflect upon this question: Are we so concerned with how our Institutions look to a community that we fail to wonder how we appear to our children?"

Jane Marla Ver Dow
Author, Dear Daisy, Rising Sparrow Press



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