It’s time to do something about bullying

It seems that many students have been bullied throughout many of their school years. This is an ongoing thing, and it has happened more years and in more schools than anyone cares to tell.

School administrations and administrators, teachers, counselors, school boards, etc. have no answer. Oh yes, we have a policy for this and for that, for bullying, mental health, safety, policies — policies everywhere, but none are worth more than the paper or computer they are written on. Policies get talked about and forgotten, along with the poor kids who have suffered the bullying, etc. Swept under the rug, so to speak.

Now, about coming forth and reporting the bully/bullies, or even the school person to whom it may have been reported, after which the person reporting then leaves the school and is further bullied again right after having come to the administrator, or whichever person the child happened to have been told to report, now must face further bullying or worse, because he or she was told to tell. Seems a never-ending battle for the victim.

So other people now enter the picture and say you have to do something about the bully and mental health, but have no suggestions as to what they must or should do. Since all this time has gone by (sometimes years) with nothing but policies gone awry, perhaps someone other than school boards, administrators and other people in charge can’t seem to find what to do about this. Let’s hear from some of the people telling us that you have to do something, and let those people tell us what should be done about it.

Perhaps it takes plain, simple people, the kind without higher education papers, to tell the higher-ups what should be done and how to do it.

Ruthann Schlecht,

Lehighton