The Quiet Emergency: When Adults Look Away and Kids Learn to Disappear

and run away. I watched a staff member look at it and turn his back.”

The counselor’s face tightened slightly.

The vice principal nodded slowly, like he was listening.

“We take bullying very seriously,” he said, and I swear to you he sounded proud of the sentence, like repeating it was the same as doing something.

“Then why did no one do anything?” I asked.continue reading …