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A recent story in the columbus dispatch about schools publishing their incident reports for bullying says it all. Is dublin one of the districts picking and chosing what they report? Our kids are now home schooled because thats been our experience. Is it more important to the school to see a clean report then to help the students? Who decides when its considered bullying? According to the Dublin school district policies on bullying and harrasement found on the dublin schools website it is any verbal or physical threat repeated and who ever the child tells is immediately supposed to report and handle it. But who controls the schools staff of trained teachers? Who upholds the policies and protects the child? The principal is the higharchy of the school. The district appointed being that handles it all.How can the district look the other way when its principals are bending the policies to suit themselves and their schedules. Too busy to keep our kids safe or maybe they cant handle the job? I urge all parents not just from chapman elementary but all over dublin and columbus to speak out and speak up if you feel that your schools principal is not reporting and making incident reports of bullying. This is such a serious issue especially now when the world is so unsure. Bullying is an epidemic and if your child is a target you may have to put yourself out there to handle it yourself because the school may not help your child until you demand it. We are passing levy after levy with school security always on the top of the forms but is anyone training teachers and officials to handle school bullys at each grade level? Do we not know by now that if you catch it quick enough you may help one not to bully and help one not to be a victim? Did we learn nothing from columbine? victims of bullying that get no response from their peers feel helpless do we want that for our kids so we can say we live in a district that has the best and safest schools? Why,just look at those reports....so clean. It must be safe right? Maybe I just have a 'laundry list' of concerns as I was told when I questioned why my child was still being hurt and bullied and no reports were filed? Maybe hanging up on parents that question her about school policies she choses to ignore is the only answer this principal has. Anyone else having like or same issues or is it really just fine here in dublin and my sons bully just happened to move in?