5th-grader to school board: ‘I am here to stand up for every kid that gets bullied’

(ABC News) – Fighting back tears, a fifth-grader recently pleaded with her school board to help end bullying.

At a June 7 Timberlane School Board meeting, Delanie Marcotte, who attends Pollard School in Plaistow, New Hampshire, read a letter detailing her experience, hoping district leaders would make a change.

“I have been threatened to get shot in the head with an AK-47 and buried in my backyard and many other things,” Delanie said. “I ask you, what are you going to do to protect me and my classmates against bullying?

“I am here to stand up for every kid that gets bullied.”

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