Title: Supporting the goals and ideals of No Name-Calling Week in bringing attention to name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the tools and inspiration to launch an ongoing dialogue about ways to eliminate name-calling and bullying in their communities.
Policy area: Education

Summary:
This concurrent resolution expresses support for the goals and ideals of No Name-Calling Week.
It also encourages schools to consider comprehensive anti-bullying and harassment policies that address infractions based on the sexual orientation or gender identity of the victim.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Con. Res. 84 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. CON. RES. 84

  Supporting the goals and ideals of No Name-Calling Week in bringing 
 attention to name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the 
   tools and inspiration to launch an ongoing dialogue about ways to 
       eliminate name-calling and bullying in their communities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 21, 2020

 Ms. Lee of California (for herself, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Lowenthal, and 
 Ms. Norton) submitted the following concurrent resolution; which was 
            referred to the Committee on Education and Labor

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                         CONCURRENT RESOLUTION


 
  Supporting the goals and ideals of No Name-Calling Week in bringing 
 attention to name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the 
   tools and inspiration to launch an ongoing dialogue about ways to 
       eliminate name-calling and bullying in their communities.

Whereas No Name-Calling Week is an annual week of educational activities aimed 
        at ending name-calling of all kinds and providing schools with the tools 
        and inspiration to launch an ongoing dialogue about ways to eliminate 
        name-calling and bullying in their communities;
Whereas tens of thousands of elementary and middle school students have 
        participated in No Name-Calling Week since its inception in 2004;
Whereas over 3,000 students help to lead No Name-Calling Week each year;
Whereas 26 percent of elementary students reported hearing others say hurtful 
        things based on another student's race or ethnic background;
Whereas 36 percent of elementary students reported being bullied or called names 
        at some point while in school;
Whereas elementary students who are bullied are four times as likely as other 
        students to say they do not want to go to school because they feel 
        afraid or unsafe;
Whereas over 87 percent of LGBTQ middle and high school students have heard 
        negative remarks about transgender people;
Whereas over 70 percent of LGBTQ middle and high school students were verbally 
        harassed in the past year because of their sexual orientation;
Whereas 48 percent of LGBTQ middle and high school students experienced 
        harassment via electronic means in the past year;
Whereas students who faced anti-LGBTQ discrimination at school were more likely 
        to receive school discipline than their peers;
Whereas students feeling unsafe in their schools has often resulted in missed 
        school days and exposes students to disciplinary actions because of 
        truancy policies;
Whereas nearly 70 percent of American Indian or Alaska Native (or Two Spirit) 
        LGBTQ middle and high school students felt unsafe based on their sexual 
        orientation or gender identity in the past year;
Whereas 60 percent of Latinx LGBTQ middle and high school students experienced 
        bullying based on their gender identity in the past year;
Whereas nearly 60 percent of Black LGBTQ middle and high school students 
        experienced bullying based on their sexual orientation in the past year;
Whereas nearly 50 percent of multiracial LGBTQ middle and high school students 
        felt unsafe in school based on the way they express their gender; and
Whereas over 25 percent of LGBTQ students reported being victimized at school 
        based on their actual or perceived disability: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), 
That Congress--
            (1) supports the goals and ideals of No Name-Calling Week;
            (2) encourages the people of the United States to observe 
        No Name-Calling Week with appropriate ceremonies, programs, and 
        activities;
            (3) encourages schools to consider a more comprehensive 
        anti-bullying and harassment policy that contains specific 
        provisions addressing infractions based on the sexual 
        orientation or gender identity of the victim; and
            (4) calls for schools to have more inclusive curricula on 
        LGBTQ people, history, and events.
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