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SUMNER COUNTY CITIZENS MAKE 3
ANTI-BULLYING
PROPOSALS TO BOARD OF EDUCATION
March 19, 2012
Hendersonville, TN—On
March 15, Sumner County residents delivered three anti-bullying proposals for
consideration by the Sumner County Board of Education at its March
meeting. The proposals resulted from
ongoing discussions of bullying by Sumner County residents and youth and
equality advocates from Nashville after a series of youth suicides over the
past three months.
Two of the proposals
acknowledge steps taken by Sumner County Schools to address bullying, including
efforts to provide teacher trainings. In
the first proposal, Dr. Ryan Footit of Hendersonville recommends that Sumner
County Schools provide a monthly report to the public that would document the
number of bullying cases per school and how they were resolved. In the second proposal, Helenmary Hendrix of
Gallatin proposes that copies of the curriculum used to train teachers on
bullying issues be made available for public inspection and that the district
provide information on how many teachers have been trained as well as reveal
any plans for ongoing certification of school personnel.
The third proposal
offered by Kelly Fussman of Hendersonville suggests a revision of the
district’s anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies to include the categories
“gender expression, gender identity, and sexual orientation” in their
enumerated classes to improve protections for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and
transgender students or those who are perceived to be gay, lesbian, bisexual,
or transgender.
The Tennessee
Equality Project provided assistance in drafting the proposals and advice in
navigating the Sumner County Board of Education’s policy process.
The next meeting of
the Sumner County Board of Education is March 27.
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