You might get some ideas from what Michelle Obama did in an anti-bullying campaign. Best of luck to you!

so very sorry about this.

My daughter is the same age/grade. My heart hurts.

My heart aches for all of you.

Peace...

I fully intend to follow through with the County Sheriff's Department and the City Police Department. The Middle School & High School are in the city limits, and a couple of Elementary Schools are outside the city limits, therefore falling under the County's jurisdiction.

We only have 2 full-time City Officers on duty, working 12 hour shifts, and a couple of part-timers so the regular Officers can get a day off. As for the County, on any given night we might have 3 Deputies on duty... 1 to cover the North end, 1 to cover the South end, and a "floater" who stays in the middle, where the City Limits are, to back up either Deputy, or the City Officer on duty. The whole County is around 7 to 8 miles wide and about 35 miles long, with a whole lot of deep, backwoods roads and areas.

I live in a remote area myself, and we have ALL been told by the Sheriff's Department that we are basically on our own. If we catch someone breaking into our homes, or have someone trying to assault us, "just shoot them, or do whatever you have to do to protect yourself because, depending on WHERE the Deputy is, or if he's on another call or otherwise busy, it might be an hour or more before we can respond".

It might be hard, or impossible, to initiate anything due to funding. Most of the funding goes towards the Meth Taskforce and trying to eradicate THAT problem from our County. It's so bad around here that you probably couldn't throw a rock without hitting a tweaker! And everyone wonders *why* I keep to myself, and mainly only hang out with my family?? I have a VERY SMALL circle of friends around here.

Peace,

Ghost