TEEN TRUTH: LIVE tours the San Joaquin Valley performing at several schools and impacting over 2500 middle and high school students.

Throughout the past decade, school violence has surfaced in rural high schools of the Midwest, the affluent suburbs of the South and urban centers on the coasts. Six major school massacres have taken the lives of 36 and left more than 50 wounded. Students at Duncan-Russell High School were asked Wednesday if they consider violence among Tracy teens an issue. “I think a shooting could happen here,” 17-year-old senior Brittney Bibbs said. “There’s bullying everywhere you go.” The discussion took place among about 40 students after a showing of “Teen Truth,” a documentary taped by 15 diverse high school students that gives viewers ...

Bullying in high school is nothing new, but a Linden High School alumni and filmmaker has compiled teens' views of the problem into a film designed to educate them about the affects of bullying on fellow students and their community. Erahm Christopher's film "Teen Truth" endeavors to inform teens about the four steps they can take to stifle bullying as well as the depression and anger that often follows such acts. The steps are: see the big picture, look at the issue, identify the problem and use problem solving strategies. Christopher recently showed the film, which includes material from more than 80 ...