KGO-TV San Francisco (7/20) reported on its Website, "A Philadelphia fifth-grader took her fight against bullying all the way to the White House and President Obama listened. In January, 11-year-old Ziainey Stokes wrote a letter to the president explaining how she had been getting bullied at her former school nearly every day." President Obama responded to Stokes via a letter which arrived in March, thanking Stokes "for sharing her story" and encouraging "her to speak with her teachers about being bullied."
WTFX-TV Philadelphia (7/20) reported on its Web site that Stokes "says she started being bulled in the third-grade, when she was called names by classmates at the Belmont Academy Charter School." Stokes "later transferred schools" and Stokes is now "on a mission to end bullying and wants an organization to help others find voice and urge adults to pay attention."
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