President Obama unveiled a new website to counter bullying (stopbullying.org). It offers advice and guidance for kids, parents, teachers, and community members to help relieve this issue. Obama's staff has linked up with MTV and Facebook to counter bullying. MTV will launch a series of ads talking about the damage being done to kids that are being targeted; and Facebook will also add new safety features so that members will be allowed to report content that violates their policies.
I think that it's great to have this awareness of bullying to make so much attention on a national level. It's something that is happening all over the U.S. and other parts of the world. If administrators, parents, and government officials, and students are united to take a stance against this issue, then I believe that less homicides, suicides, and gang related violence will occur in our neighborhoods. The key is to stand together and set aside some of our opinions and feelings we may have towards one another and focus solely on the issue at hand and only then, just maybe, we can get real work accomplished.
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