Don't you think that saying nice things, if anything ,would make everyone feel good. Alot of people saw that the boy in the Santana school was picked on. I bet the people who were picking on the boy are having trouble sleeping now. Parents pay attention to your kids. The truth is, it is verbal abuse- sometimes even sexual verbal abuse.
School violence is less often physical abuse.
School officials do not recognize that verbal abuse is violence and therefore do not count verbal abuse in their violence tally. School officials merely count the end result - the less common but impossible to ignore physical abuse in the single form of school shooting. It appalls me that no one recognizes the countless numers of students who are forced to tolerate years of daily verbal abuse. Verbal abuse is ignored until a student reacts severely inappropriately, i.e. school shootings. No one seems to notice the variety of reactions to verbal abuse in our schools.