Take your support public, letters to the editor, TV news, e-mail, listserves, etc. The Dignity for All Students Coalition is a group of individuals and organizations that supports any meaningful measures that help protect students from bias-based harassment in school. Documentation and data collection to discover just how prevalent the problem of harassment is in New York s schools and where the needs are most profound. Funding to implement the above principles in a way that avoids unfunded mandates for school districts. No school should tolerate a pattern or repetition of such incidents.
Children can be very cruel.
One can see this in a playground or by watching children interact even in family settings. And certainly most parents try to raise their children to be respectful of others. In schools, where as a consequence of intimidation, bullying, cruelty, or related discrimination children's education is compromised and they are prevented from full participation in school programs, such acts are both intolerable and deplorable. But we would be doing our children a grave disservice if we failed to recognize the link between patterns of unchecked harassment in a school and the turmoil or loss of conscience within some children that sometimes turns deadly. Children do not have to like each other any more than do adults.