Saturday, January 15, 2011

West Branch, Michigan Hero

I read a story about a young girl in West Branch, Michigan.
This little neighbor of mine had been bullied to the point of despair.
She wrote a note indicating that she might take some action against herself.
Her friend saw the note and told her grandmother.
The grandmother called the school and read the note to the principal.
The principal called the School Counselor and the counselor summoned police.
The police made a welfare call at the house and found the girl unconscious after having taking an overdose of medication.
They saved her life.
I heard that the bullies that spurred this have actually been harassing the girl who told her grandmother. Unbelievable?
Anti bullying legislation was introduced by Representative Glenn Anderson to the Michigan Legislature in 2006. It had to be introduced again in 2007 because they didn’t do anything with it.
It passed the House and has been sitting in the Senate.
Anderson played musical chairs and he is in the Senate - along with the stalled bill.
A State Senator told me it was ‘In Committee’.
What people would block anti-bullying laws? Bullies.
Once I wrote that many of the figures submitted to the Secretary of State by State Senators and Representatives did not add up and was threatened by one portly Senator who told me he was going to ‘get’ me. That’s a bully.
How many more children have to die before the Senators do what needs to be done about "Matt's Safe School Law"?

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