MI Denies Anti-Bullying Law
Michigan Senate passes ‘license to bully’ legislation
Advocates for a law to prohibit bullying and provide school districts with the tools to address the problem were dealt a stinging rebuke Wednesday morning in the Republican-controlled Michigan Senate. The GOP pushed through an amended bill, SB 137, which does nothing advocates have pushed for — including reporting requirements and enumeration, or listing, of protected classes. In addition, the legislation provides an exception which allows bullying based on “moral convictions.”
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http://michiganmessenger.com/53702/senate-passes-license-to-bully-legislation
VIEW CHILD/TEEN BULLYING SUICIDES STATISTICS HERE:
http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html
---------------------------------------------By the time you finish reading this, 15 children will have been abused; In the next five minutes, 30 more; Within the next hour, 360 more; And by tonight, close to 8,000+ children will have suffered from abuse, 5 of which will die. Child abuse has increased 134% since 1980 and is now considered a worldwide epidemic. The high jump in child abuse deaths and the shocking increase in statistics highlights the frightening lack of public knowledge.
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