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A local legislator hopes to bring awareness to bullying aimed at LGBTQ youth, especially since, according to the nonprofit Trevor Project, 42% of young LGBTQ people have seriously considered suicide in the last year.
Legislation introduced by state Sen. Nancy Skinner would ban suspensions for willful defiance and low-level behavior issues in California public and charter schools.
With technology changing our lives it has changed bullying too. It is so severe kids are dying. Here are important facts for parents, the problem of children being bullied at school and online is getting worse not better. There are a number of school programs designed to decrease bullying but unfortunately they do not seem to be making the impact we hoped they would be making with children.
A mother in the East Bay accused administrators at St. Raymond School in Dublin with turning a blind eye when her 13-year-old child complained of racially-charged bullying and allowing a teacher to assault her daughter. Alcian Lindo said nothing was done after her Black daughter was bullied by white students in racially motivated harassment and assaulted by a teacher at the Catholic school in Dublin.
Childhood bullying is a significant problem nationwide and has been shown to be associated with school absenteeism, mental and physical stress, poor school performance, low self-esteem, and school violence.