Politics & Government

Bullying Symposium Educates Families on Growing Issue

The event will feature keynote speaker Martin Castro who chairs the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

Montgomery County Councilmember Valerie Ervin (D-dist. 5) is set to moderate a community symposium on preventing bullying in schools. 

The event will hosted at the -located on One Veterans Place-on Saturday, Feb. 4 from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.

As the chair of the County Council's Education Committee Ervin says that her focus is to address this matter by giving families the tools they need.

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“Our goal is to equip parents, students, school staff, community leaders, policy makers and others with strategies for preventing bullying and for dealing with it when it occurs,” Ervin said.

The symposium will feature keynote speaker Martin Castro, who is the chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

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Other panelists will include youth advocate Johnnie Williams, representatives from Montgomery County Public Schools, the National Association of School Psychologists, the National Center for Missing, and Exploited Children and the Gay-Straight Alliance of Walt Whitman High School.


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