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After teen's suicide, protesters demand justice
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State records show bullying, harassment rise at Central Regional High School in Bayville
A knot of protesters rallied in front of Central Regional High School in Bayville, demanding justice for 14-year-old Adriana Kuch. Kuch died by suicide on Feb. 3, days after a video of her being attacked in school by classmates spread over social media.
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After teen's suicide, protesters demand justice
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A knot of protesters rallied in front of Central Regional High School in Bayville, demanding justice for 14-year-old Adriana Kuch. Kuch died by suicide on Feb. 3, days after a video of her being attacked in school by classmates spread over social media.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipmore accusations of bullying are surfacing at Central Regional High School where 14 year old student Adriana cush died by Suicide two days after she was attacked by students in the hallway and a video of The Assault spread on social media while now more students and parents are speaking out saying cush was far from alone in facing severe bullying all claim a pervasive culture of bullying and violence was known among School District officials yet they failed to act senior correspondent Brenda Flanagan reports a knot of protesters rallied in front of Central Regional High School in Bayville demanding Justice for fourteen-year-old Adriana cush the teen committed suicide February 3rd days after a video of her being attacked in school by classmates spread over social media and Adriana wasn't the only bullying victim here according to Brianna O'Brien the same thing happened to me but I reached out to someone for a help instead of going through with it and I feel that everyone that is feeling like that there's someone out there that cares tears spilled down the 17 year old's face as she stood with protesters this morning she says freshman classmates bullied her too and that like Adriana she complained to administrators to no avail they need to do better or be fired and it's all their fun about this whole thing I've seen countless fight videos the whole nine out of this school it's sad on social media yeah you need to come up with a working change yeah because what they're doing obviously doesn't work Brianna's family transferred her to a different School in Olivia O'Day's case her family hired a lawyer and sued the district alleging their teen was bullied relentlessly at Central Regional there is a culture of violence where these instances were acceptable by Administration um it created a vicious cycle of just not only bullying but premeditated physical assaults and then continued cyber bullying and stalking and continued threats after the fact all of which the school had known about they were dedicated social media Pages for videos of fights taking place in the school that were uploaded to a particular site and like a repository of fight videos like a fight club going on in the school a lot of kids have stories about being bullied and going to the administration and them doing absolutely nothing State records show bullying and harassment incidents on the rise at Central Regional Adriana's case spotlighted what critics call the administration's circle the wagons defensive posture which ultimately prompted the superintendent's abrupt resignation last week they don't they don't take the accountability and that's where the weakness is and we need new we need change I'm also upset that the superintendent was able to just resign get his pension and walk away from this kind of Adriana's alleged attackers have been criminally charged we reached out to the district radio silence but in a statement posted last week it said Central Regional School Districts evaluating all current and past allegations of bullying and has asked the state to review its anti-bullying policy I read the policy last night it was that thick and the policies bull if it's not adhered to there's always some drama but it's just the way this whole thing was handled I didn't like it these folks and possibly hundreds more will turn out for tomorrow night's Board of Education meeting they say to demand answers for the record and for the kids in Bayville I'm Brenda Flanagan NJ Spotlight news thank you [Music]
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