Via GLSEN:
Sirdeaner Walker, the mother of 11-year-old Carl Walker-Hoover, who died by suicide after enduring constant bullying at school, will testify today in front of the House Subcommittees on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education and Healthy Families and Communities on Wednesday in support of the Safe Schools Improvement Act – federal legislation to require that schools adopt anti-bullying policies.
Carl, who attended New Leadership Charter School in Springfield, Mass., took his own life April 6 after enduring constant bullying at school, including being called “gay” and “faggot” even though he did not identify as gay.
“Carl liked football and basketball and playing video games with his little brother,” Walker will say in her prepared remarks. “He loved the Lord and he loved his family. What could make a child his age despair so much that he would take his own life? That question haunts me to this day, and I will probably never know the answer.
School we need a nbullying is a national crisis, and ational solution to deal with it. That is why I am here today.
Brava to her. Both she and Judy Shepard are two very remarkable women. You can watch Walker’s live testimony on this livestream.
UPDATE: Full transcript of Sirdeaner Walker’s moving testimony can be read here.
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