This article about Josie Ratley’s experience is an extreme case of bullying. Before it ever comes to physical harm, before it ever comes to criminal trials, bullying causes emotional and social pain for years and years, often starting in Elementary School. Prevention is the only long-reaching solution. That’s why Soul Shoppe focuses on going into the Elementary Schools and giving kids the tools they need to create healthy social/emotional habits, and to build healthy and happy relationships with one another from the beginning. Getting bullying prevention programs into schools at the time kids first start going to school could help prevent this kind of very serious violence later on.
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