A2: Bullying

In advocating to address the problem of bullying, local radio talk show host Lucy Ann Lance writes on her blog about her own experiences as a child: “While many girls and women growing up in the 1960s and ’70s found freedom by shedding their nylons and pulling on pants, I was coordinating my dresses and bows. I’ve never felt the need to assimilate, to be like all of the others. I am at my best when I am true to myself. Perhaps that’s why as a student at Ann Arbor’s Pittsfield Elementary School I was often taunted and teased. Oh, yeah, I was even beat up one day on the playground.” [Source]