bullying as whole and hope s parents say the nine-year-old boy teased her for about a year on the bus and decided to go to the media when his father joined in and other bullying complaints have come to light across the country and at an indiana school and a boy being unconscious as others watched. and a missouri mentally challenged teenager and kids were plotting a hand coming incidents to throw eggs at her and quack like a duck. it s so hard to watch that video of a child pummelling another child and the sta tis i cans are unbelievable when it comes to this. and one in nearly three school age children are bullied each year, upwards of 13 million students whose drop-out race are much higher for kids who are bullied. and others are more to be
excuse for doing what he did. other bullying complaints are coming to light, a disturbing attack with a boy beaten unconscious as others stand by and watch. and a missouri mentally challenged teen who found out kids were plotting a homecoming prank to pelt eggs at her and quack like a duck. this is only a handful of what has been reported there recently. school dropout rates are much higher for kids who are bullied than those who bully others are maureen to become spouse abusers as well as child abusers. it is a heartbreaking think and it keeps on going generation after generation. gregg: it is sad. fortunately there are some people out there that are doing something about it. a week from today we will tell you a story about that, the good side, people really trying to stop the bullying. thank you. heather: coming up, president obama campaigning in
their contracts not to be renewed on may 1st. reporter: moments ago i spoke with the school superintendent, who defended the school s actions saying they did not know about the bullying until a week before her death, which is in direct contradiction with what the d.a. says. here s hi defense of district policy. we did not know anything about this bullying prior to january 7th. reporter: judge does the d.a. say that your actions or inactions are troubling? i cannot answer that question. i don t know why the d.a. said that. reporter: so now the school has changed its policy. basically answering all bullying complaints into a computer database, but a lot of parents say that s too little too late, david. thanks for the update. we ve been talking a lot here in washington over the past couple of days about a drive-by shooting that killed four people.