Yes, she notices more than what’s going on in her own life. …
Michelle over at A Small Victory has brought some ever-growing attention on her site to the problem of bullies in schools. The thing with bullies is that they destroy and devastate young, impressionable and fragile youth with their ridiculous mind games and physical threats. And those who are bullied, well, go one of three ways. They can ignore it and just have the scars for the rest of their lives, they can defend themselves or they can go and shoot up their schools.
I went into work tonight just to catch up with my massive amount of e-mails, and I got a letter from two high school students in Minneosta who did a paper on school bullies and thought it might be of interest to me. Granted, it had little to do with my job (they found me on my workplace’s website), but the irony is that I am a volunteer for Ribbon of Promise, the National Campaign to Prevent School Violence, founded in part by Shan’s dad after the deadly high school shooting spree in Springfield, Ore., a number of years ago. We have so many ideas how to promote it, but time is such a challenge for us. We figure that figuring out how to solve the bully issue in schools would be a good way to renew the public’s interest in the cause. Any thoughts? 🙂