In the first federal appeals court opinion dealing with “sexting” — the transmission of sexually explicit photographs by cellphone — a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled Wednesday that parents could block the prosecution of their children on child pornography charges for appearing in photographs found on [...]
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NEW HOPE, Pa. – March 17, 2010 (WPVI) — When a local high school student made the decision to be open about his sexuality, his life changed, and not for the better. “I was normal for a while and I said one little thing about myself and the entire world changed, I lost all my [...]
March 15, 2010 By Greg Mercer, Record staff WATERLOO REGION — With three lawsuits filed against local schools, and more expected, the Waterloo Catholic District School Board wants the province to stop parents from using Small Claims Court as a cheap way to take their kids’ schools to court. Since a Kitchener mother sued the [...]
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The Massachusetts State Senate on Thursday, March 11, passed bill S. 2283, also known as the “Anti-Bullying Bill.” The legislation will work to prevent bullying and cyber-bullying by developing anti-bullying programs and raising the level of accountability of school adults; all school employees will be required to report bullying immediately after witnessing or becoming aware [...]
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(NOTE: This article links to Dr. David Yamada’s “Minding the Workplace Blog,” which focuses on workplace bullying. However, as we have pointed out previously here, there is a relationship between school and work bullying and the sooner corrective efforts start, the better. – Mike) I’ve been pondering recent posts by attorney Michael Fox, host of [...]
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Activists continue to lament the fact Massachusetts legislators have not included LGBT-specific language in a bill that would strengthen a law against bullying and harassment in the classroom. Activists lobbying to include what they call enumerative language to cover sexual orientation and gender identity and expression attribute the omission to the “Scott Brown effect” and [...]
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While anti-bullying programs are fairly common in North Dakota schools, reports of bullying are up statewide this year. In recently released state data, the number of seventh- and eighth-graders who report being bullied at school has jumped from 34 percent in 2007 to nearly 50 percent in 2009. MORE >>>
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(NOTE: Professor Rigby conducted workshops on the Method of Shared Concern at several U. S. locations in 2007, including a day-long seminar at the University of Arizona in Tucson and at the Annual Conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association in Hollywood, Florida. – Mike) SCHOOLYARD bullies go from being the problem to part of [...]
MORRISTOWN — Morristown High School students and staff members should be prepared to walk through metal detectors Monday, as authorities continue to investigate threatening messages found in a boys bathroom — including one that read ‘I’m going to kill 15 people 3/15/10.” “We expect long lines so dress for inclement weather,” the district wrote in [...]
The mother of a sixth-grader in Buncombe County, N.C., is upset about name-calling in her daughter’s classroom — but the students aren’t the ones slinging the mud. Patty Clement is debating other parents in Candler, N.C., over Rex Roland, a teacher who sometimes writes the word “loser” on the assignments of his 11- and 12-year-old [...]
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