(CNSNews.com) – When students are bullied, the entire nation pays the price, Acting Associate Attorney General Tony West told the 2012 Bullying Prevention Summit in Washington on Tuesday.

But in his speech, West offered only one specific example of how the Obama administration has intervened to stop bullying, and that case involved homosexuality, which in recent years has become synonymous with bullying.

Bullying \”presents challenges that affect us all,\” West told the summit. \”When kids who are the targets of bullies show up in school, not ready to learn because they’re too afraid…that’s not just a challenge for the victim or his or her family; that becomes an education challenge. And when those bullied children show up in doctor’s offices and clinics suffering from anxiety or depression or a whole host of other issues, that becomes a health care challenge.