Campaign against bullying in our schools
Bullying affects everyone: those who are bullied, those who bully, and those who witness bullying — furthermore, accordingly to stopbullying.gov, the government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, bullying is linked to many negative outcomes including impacts on mental health, substance use, and suicide.
If you know or see that a child is being bullied, it is your responsibility to stand up for them. We have to protect our future generations and provide them with the community support they need.
In order to facilitate your action, if you witness or know of bullying we have drafted the below email template for you adapt and send to schools within your own communities to insist they take action.
The below email was written with a focus on racial bullying, yet can easily be adapted to address all oppressive and regressive bullying. However, if you are having trouble adapting the template and would like help in creating a specific email, please email us at hello@theprogressivists.com and we will work on this with you.
How to use this email template
ADAPT • Edit the <italics> words, sentences and/or paragraphs with your appropriate text, adding your own details as well as researched statistics, experiences and data
EMAIL • Your local schools and local representatives.
Email draft
To whom it may concern,
My name is <insert name> of <insert community>. <I have a child at ____ School>.
I am writing today as I have been made aware of <an attack> at <____ High School yesterday> in which <describe the incident>. This oppressive behavior is unacceptable on every level.
This indecent incident is precisely why we need comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs included and endorsed in our schools for both students and teachers alike. Furthermore, it is exactly the reason the factual history of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) needs to be taught and openly discussed within our schools, in order for students to understand this nation’s profoundly racist history and, in turn, how colonialism and enslavement construct ongoing racism and systemic disadvantage TODAY.
We must not allow these pertinent and profound historical cataclysms to be cast aside in increasingly complex curriculums — and must mandate that DEI programs safely grow and improve within our school systems immediately. For when these programs are not broadly introduced, maintained, and continuously evolved, what transpired <yesterday> becomes our collective consequence.
There can be nothing less than zero tolerance for bullying and I beseech the school to use this tragic incident as the catalyst to arm our future generation with the knowledge to end <both personal and systemic racism>. The inequity in <BIPOC communities> must be reformed, and it starts with you, the people with whom we have entrusted our children’s fate.
By adequately addressing <this attack>, you have the opportunity to better the future of at least two students. Seize it.
Yours Sincerely,
<Your Name>
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