Parents and teachers packed Peabody’s School Committee meeting on Tuesday night, addressing concerns about how bullying is handled within the district in the wake of 14-year-old Jason Bernard’s death.
Residents argued the district should be adding more services for students instead of cutting them.
“It is disheartening that it took the loss of a human life, a child, to force attention onto problems we have been raising for years,” one teacher said.
Bernard was an 8th grader at Higgins Middle School. His family says he took his own life more than a week ago after he was bullied at school…