In Efforts to End Bullying, Some See Agenda

In the past three weeks there have been several GLBT teen suicides, due to harassment during public school, have been brought to the public attention. This has caused much debate among the school board and the public about what anti-harassment policies should be taught during school and what the public school system can do to prevent such tragedies. The federal Department of Education is responsible for preventing harassment of any student and are currently trying to come up with a new policy to help GLBT students. This is an example of how bureaucrats are used by the federal government to regulate policies such as public school anti-harassment policies. The Department of Education is able to do what the federal government can't, it can specialize and work with the street level bureaucrats to create a policy.\



Hannah Shearer

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