The Greendale Public Schools organizes a committee of hand picked people to study a problem that happened 7 weeks ago and will "understand any issues in the Greendale community to ensure every child feels a strong sense of belonging in our schools." We can accomplish this goal with hand picked people who will tell us what we want to hear and be doing. Can we have the names of these task force members so we can give them some information other than what the school officials deem what they will give them?

Task Force Members: Reading these comments will give you a view of the matter. Be very doubtful of what you are given by the school leaders. These are the same people who are proud of how they handled this. One other idea I found looking over the posts: Would the school board be willing to come to a task force meeting and answer questions from their hand picked tasked force members. So we can hear their view finally? Or are they waiting to have their task force do the work, give them their report months from now, probably after the election and then say, hey look, everything is just dandy!

The link to read the comments can be seen here

http://greendale.patch.com/articles/charges-filed-against-ghs-threat-suspect

As you can see, many of us are skeptical of the sincerity of the board of education.

One last question? Are the high school counselors or admin on the task force studying the problem at their school? The same people who let this all happen are now studying and suggesting how to solve the problems they didn't know are happening? Sounds like Catch 22 to me.

Unreal how silly this sounds. When a child can sit on a bus coming home from their basketball game and when she is picked up and she is crying. The parent asks" hey whats with the tear in your eye."And she tells you kids on the bus where making fun of you, 1) you feel like crap because it was your child. 2) You ask well what did the teacher say to any of them. And she tells you this skinny middle school basketball so called "Coach" heard it and didn't do a F ing thing about it! So you e- mail and call this dork and he still doesn't even have the gonads to call you back to discuss the situation...... Is there any reason why we have kids with problems from bullying when teachers who get paid quit a bit of money don't stop it when its doen right infront of there lazy @$@ face!

How nice, well after the fact they decide to put something in place to study the bully problem and take a look at how they can change the prom & homecoming vote.

Very idiosyncratic when some teachers, counselors, even the principal and superintendent won’t even acknowledge there is a bully problem and has been for a long time.

The superintendent does not even return phone calls to parents of victims.

Sounds like the problem comes from the top, lead by example. How sad.

I tried to speak to a board member about this issue several times. He avoided me at a football game, at Pick and Save and didn't return my phone calls. I think our rights is right, the problem comes from the top. Who are the people serving on this district committee so we can contact them?

I believe the Teachers have enough to do without having to counsel bullies and victims. The Counselors actually are responsible for handling these issues and I feel that not all of them are qualified. But first and foremost this growing problem has got to start at home! We are a society of blaming eveyone else instead of being responsible for our own!

Dont realy see alot of "blaming" here but more holding people accountable for what they are paid to do. But I do agree on the being rsponsible for your own. PARENTS get your punk ass bullying little bastards under control !!!!!