Child Bullying and Parent Microaggression
- Parents meet with teacher, assistant principal, and guidance counselor to learn what the school’s strategies are for addressing bullying
- Encourage evidence-based anti-bullying curriculum throughout school campus and year
- Zero Tolerance anti-bullying policies do not work
- If school officials do not intervene, contact school district office Superintendent’s office
- If school district does not respond, contact state education agency e.g. Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction (state level) Equity and Civil Rights Office
- If school district or state does not respond, you can contact Federal Office of Civil Rights
Parents: healthcare, workplace, or community-based racial microaggressions
- Human resources anonymous reporting at work
- Health care institution patient relations department reporting
- Civil rights organizations: CAIR, NAACP, American Civil Liberties Union and others
Colleagues
- Be an upstander [Ehie O, Muse I, Hill L, Bastien A. Professionalism: microaggression in the healthcare setting. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2021;34(2)]
- Speak out against anti-Palestinian racism in clinical encounters, faculty meetings, stereotyping in literature, institutional policies, etc.
- Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) local resources
- Palestine Legal
- American Civil Liberties Union
- American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People