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Parents urge district action on bullying and youth suicide; resident criticizes county workforce‑housing incentives
Summary
A parent whose son died by suicide urged the board to partner on anti‑bullying Unity Day activities; another resident raised concerns about a Dorchester County workforce‑housing incentive ordinance and potential taxpayer impacts. Board member Lee also urged civility and condemned celebration of political violence.
Jason Brockert used public comment time at the Sept. 22 Dorchester School District Two board meeting to describe a decade of advocacy and to urge the board to partner on anti‑bullying activities after the family’s son died by suicide.
"I'm offering to help coordinate and provide materials for that," Brockert said, offering to host a Unity Day event on Oct. 22, the date of PACER's Unity Day. He said the district did not participate in a community vigil he organized during National Suicide Prevention Month and asked trustees to join future efforts to acknowledge youth suicide and bullying.
Following Brockert, Tommy Fagan raised concerns about a Dorchester County ordinance then in first reading that would create incentives for workforce housing. Fagan warned that tax incentives could shift revenue from commercial tax rolls that support school operations and expressed privacy and security concerns about developer‑controlled housing for school employees.
Board member Lee used his public remarks to call for restraint and civility in public discourse. He said elementary and middle school classrooms are not the place for politics and warned that anyone who "celebrates the assassination of a political opponent" is unfit for positions of trust. "We should edify and build up rather than tearing down," Lee said.
No formal board action followed the public comments, but trustees acknowledged the speakers and thanked them for their involvement.
