ms. lauter. i want to preface it by saying that i have enormous respect for the ongoing and many decades-long work of the antidefamation league on combating bias in every form. and i understand you have a great deal of expertise in that regard. your organization that you've been willing to share with many communities and i want to thank you for that. i have in front of me more than 75 letters and declarations from parents and students about the misery that sometimes led to enormous physical violence. sometimes led to suicides in some cases. often led to deteriorating physical condition or mental health that emanated from pervasive harassment and bullying. in some cases, as young people -- people were spit on, taunted, punched, hair pulled, genitals grabbed, vicious assaults, and vicious taunting was leveled in many cases, does that description surprise you? does it comport with some of the things that you and your organization are seeing as you undertake this effort to combat bullying and discrim