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Governments Should Pull Funding If Schools Don’t Address Bullying: Civil Rights Board Vice Chair

Civil rights commissioner is alarmed that no schools were deemed persistently dangerous in 2021–2022 despite 1.2 million violent offenses in K–12 nationwide.
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Governments Should Pull Funding If Schools Don’t Address Bullying: Civil Rights Board Vice Chair
A teacher waves to her students as they get off the bus at a school in Louisville, Ky., on Jan. 24, 2022. Jon Cherry/Getty Images
Aaron Gifford
Aaron Gifford
2/6/2026|Updated: 2/8/2026
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Daniel Gilchrist was constantly picked on in middle school, to the point that fellow students and even employees called him a snitch, according to his father, Stephen Gilchrist. Video footage from the South Carolina public school showed another student punching Daniel in the face during a gym class basketball game in 2024.

The other kids ignored it, and teachers were visible in the corner, oblivious as they stared at their phones, Gilchrist said.

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Aaron Gifford has written for several daily newspapers, magazines, and specialty publications and also served as a federal background investigator and Medicare fraud analyst. He graduated from the University at Buffalo and is based in Upstate New York.
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