A Think Tank reader alerted me to this story by Dan Barry in today’s New York Times. It’s about bullying in Fayetteville, Arkansas and it features high school sophomore Billy Wolfe. The e-mail came to me with the following subject line: “sickening.”
“Bullying is everywhere, including here in Fayetteville, a city of 60,000 with one of the country’s better school systems. A decade ago a Fayetteville student was mercilessly harassed and beaten for being gay. After a complaint was filed with the Office of Civil Rights, the district adopted procedures to promote tolerance and respect — none of which seems to have been of much comfort to Billy Wolfe.”
This is truly heartbreaking.