Posting Guidelines: Creating Safety in Sharing

This is a place for parents, caregivers, students, teachers, staff, and other professionals to share their stories of harm within school systems. The premise is simple: silence breeds shame, but speaking the truth opens the door to healing, courage, and connection.

Harm in schools is often invisible. It hides in the quiet moments, when a child is excluded, when a voice is silenced, when dignity is overlooked. Too often, those who experience harm are made to feel alone, as though their story does not matter or should be carried in silence. But silence is heavy, and it does not set us free.

Here, we invite you to lay those stories down. By naming the harm and its impact, we strip away secrecy and isolation. In doing so, we create a collective truth that says: you are not alone. Your pain is real. And by sharing, we can begin to build something different together.

You can add your story as a comment under the school district where it happened. This space exists not to point fingers, but to hold space for truth and the humanity of those who have been harmed.

A few guidelines:

• No identifying details: Please do not include names of yourself, your child, staff, or anyone else involved.

• Hold space with care: These experiences are personal and subjective, but they carry deep truth and meaning.

• Stay rooted in purpose: This is not about retaliation, it is about truth-telling, connection, and the possibility of healing.

• Guideline compliance: If a story does not meet these guidelines or includes identifying characteristics, it will not be accepted.

Every story is a thread. Alone, they may feel fragile. Together, they weave a fabric strong enough to remind us that change is possible.