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DORCHESTER COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) – A Dorchester County man has started a mission to demand that schools do more to protect students from bullying after he lost his teenage son to suicide.
Jason Brockert says his teenage son, Julian, began having problems fitting in during middle school right after the pandemic, despite his son doing “all the right things.”
“He would handle it by trying to talk to his friends or the bullies and that didn’t work. So, then he’d talk to the teachers and that didn’t work,” he says. “And he talked to Lisa and myself and so we talked to the teachers and that didn’t work. And then we raised it to the administration and then it kind of seemed to go away.”…