Sunday, July 13, 2008

Another Kentucky bullying lawsuit

Looks like the state of Kentucky is continuing its shameful record of being the school harassment capital of the world - even after the new anti-bullying law was enacted.

In Lexington, 5 school board employees are being sued because a middle school student was harassed repeatedly from 2006 until just this past May, injuring her.

They attacked her younger sister too: The assailants once photographed or filmed her sister being punched in the face.

The new laws are great, but they obviously aren't strong enough. We need to have a school harasser registry (much like the registry that already applies to sex offenders) and a federally imposed "one strike" policy that mandates an automatic expulsion.

And maybe the media should retire the word 'bully' and replace it with 'Nazi'.

(Source: http://www.kentucky.com/179/story/451821.html)

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