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Comptroller urges action against classroom ostracizations after girl takes own life

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State Comptroller Mayanyahu Englman on Sunday called on Education Minister Yoav Kisch to act against ostracization among schoolchildren, a week after a 13-year-old girl took her own life after being shunned by classmates.

Adva Weinblum plunged to her death “wearing white, like an angel,” following “a difficult ostracization by her classmates for many years,” and lack of adequate response from her school and municipality, Englman said in a letter to Kisch.

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