Dr. Phil McGraw has challenged every school in the nation to sign the contracts against bullying he has on his website www.drphil.com.
If it reaches one child it is worth the effort, please check it out.
February 5th there was another shooting here in the Denver area at a high school. Thankfully a resourse officer on duty caught the teen (14 yrs old) and he has been charged but once again I am hear trying to explain first what is a lock down, second why was that kid so mad. A close friend of ours wrote a amazing letter to the editor of our local paper. He began his letter with the cell phone call from his daughter at the school that morning "Daddy, there is a boy with a gun outside our school." The boy had been bullied by a group of youngesters and was fed-up. Our kindergarden class is now asking questions we are trying to answer to help them feel safe.
I guess this country gal misses the simplier life but I also know it's not much better there either. The high school is 3 miles from our school, close enough for concern but far enough I didn't even know it was there!
We have policies ect at our school and are fairly close family atmosphere for our small high school so we don't see it but still...