"This could happen anywhere. All you need is a phone and a vendetta.
I know this because something like that happened to me. And it was hell.
I went to school in New York, and my single year at Gelinas Junior High School was one filled with taunts, threats and anguish.
At one point, one of my tormenters went so far as to shoot out the windows of our house with a BB gun, while my mom was home.
Our home phone was called again. And again. And again. A couple of hundred times in one day, by another classmate.
I was punched in the stomach, threatened with a soldering iron in shop class.
This was in a school that prized its academic success, passed levies, and was, for all outward intents, a model of providing a solid education.
It was in this same school that I hid in the bathroom, skipped lunch because of threats in the cafeteria, and fantasized about bringing a gun to class as protection.
Nobody should be afraid to go to school. We have a civil right to basic education in this country.