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Since the end of August, over 4 million children have gone back to school in Texas. 

These children have returned to almost 8,200 schools located in Texas' 1,200+ school districts.

Thousands of these children dread going back to school to face the taunts, jeers, and humiliation inflicted by bullies.

Bullying is not a normal part of growing up. Bullying is not a healthy coping response - it signals that a child needs to learn how to manage his or her emotions, release anger and frustration in more healthy ways, and learn more constructive strategies for getting along with others.

Victims of bullying suffer psychological and sometimes physical scars that last a lifetime.  Victims report greater fear and anxiety, feel less accepted, suffer from more health problems, and score lower on measures of academic achievement and self-esteem than students who are not bullied.  Victims often turn their anger inward, which may lead to depression, anxiety, and even suicide.  The experience of bullying is also linked with violence, as the fatal shootings in Littleton, Colorado, and Jonesborough, Arkansas, have illustrated.

The most effective way of addressing bullying is through comprehensive schoolwide programs.  Programs developed collaboratively between school administration and personnel, students, parents, and community members to change the school's culture to emphasize respect and eliminate bullying.

All children deserve to go to school free of intimidation.  Join with Equality Texas, National PTA, and other organizations to help make your schools and neighborhoods bully-free.

Sign the petition calling for school district policies and programs that address the prevention, intervention, and elimination of bullying in Texas schools.

Equality Texas will use your show of support to advocate for policy change with coalition partners, school district administrators and elected officials.

1,079  people are helping Equality Texas eliminate bullying.

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This petition is in conformity with the National PTA resolution on bullying.  To see the National PTA resolution on bullying, please click here.