My Daughter’s Bullies Visited Her Hospital Room Every Day—Then One of Them Asked, “Do You Really Have No Idea What She Did?”
She helped create better reporting procedures.
More counselor availability.
More adult presence in places students had previously been left to police socially on their own.
Once she wrote Madeline:
I used to believe giving teenagers space meant respecting independence. I learned that adults can use that idea as an excuse not to intervene.
Madeline kept the letter.
Not as proof that everything had been fixed.
As evidence that an adult had learned something.