By Liz Hazelton
Last updated at 3:45 PM on 12th November 2009
A headteacher has suspended three pupils after they set up a Facebook group attacking her dress sense.
Elizabeth Hitch was so incensed by comments on the social networking site that she threatened dozens of others at Beaumont School, St Albans, with disciplinary action.
She then fired off [...]
For those who might have wondered why this blog has been neglected recently, the answer that I’ve been preoccupied with the upcoming Annual Conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association. This year’s conference is next week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and promises to be our most exciting and beneficial ever. We might even break the attendance [...]
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Gloucestershire’s Members of Youth Parliament have launched a report into the issue of bullying within county secondary schools.
The team of six young people from the county’s three constituencies: Gloucester/Forest, Cheltenham/Tewkesbury, and Cotswolds/Stroud, put together the report following a number of consultations with students from different schools in the three areas.
The idea behind the campaign, which [...]
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10 November 2009
City & County Councils work together to stop bullying
Leicester City Council and Leicestershire County Council are running an anti-bullying video competition over the next couple of months, to coincide with anti-bullying week (16th – 20th November).
The competition involves schools making their own music video to a song written by Australian singer Kate Miller-Heidke [...]
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1:56 pm November 10, 2009, by Maureen Downey
A former high school teacher is suing a north Georgia school district, alleging she was forced to resign over photos and expletives on Facebook.
Ashley Payne contends that the Barrow County school district violated state labor law because she was never told she was entitled to a hearing. Her [...]
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