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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.
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: 2/6/2026
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Daniel Gilchrist was constantly picked on in middle school, to the point where fellow students and even employees called him a snitch, said 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 seen 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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