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Title: 'Getting Real' About Bullying-Related Suicides
Post by: Shana A on April 17, 2009, 06:47:43 PM
 'Getting Real' About Bullying-Related Suicides
by: Pam Spaulding
Fri Apr 17, 2009 at 14:45:00 PM EDT

http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/10491/getting-real-about-bullyingrelated-suicides (http://pamshouseblend.com/diary/10491/getting-real-about-bullyingrelated-suicides)

One more for the road on the Day of Silence -- a guest piece by Debra Chasnoff, the Acadamy-award winning Executive Director of GroundSpark and The Respect For All Project. It is also up at Huff Post.

    'Getting Real' About Bullying-Related Suicides

    by Debra Chasnoff

    This week another young life was silently lost in our nation's schools. Eleven year-old Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover killed himself after enduring months of anti-gay bullying at his school in Springfield, Massachusetts.