Boys behaving badly will soon be a thing of the past for Timaru, if a unique educational programme works its magic as hoped. Katarina Filipe explores The Rite Journey – a programme developed by two Australian teachers that has everyone shouting its praises. MORE >>>
Ruth McKay & Diane Huberman Arnold & Jae Fratzl & Roland Thomas, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, Volume 20, Number 2, June 2008 Abstract This paper examines the results of a workplace bully survey sent to faculty, instructors and librarians at a mid-sized Canadian university in 2005. The potential sources of workplace bullying by colleagues, [...]
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Massachusetts moved a step closer to clamping down on school bullies Thursday when the Senate unanimously approved a bill intended to discourage bullying at schools and on the Internet. The bill, which now goes to the House, seeks to prohibit the use of e-mails, text messages and other electronic means to create a hostile school [...]
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A 13-year-old schoolgirl described as “bright and friendly” apparently hanged herself after she was bullied at school. Poppy Bracey was taken to hospital on March 1 after police were called to a house in Leigh, Greater Manchester, but she later died. An investigation into the cause of the teenager’s death is under way. Poppy had [...]
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Cutting-edge questions in the First Amendment arena have recently stemmed from clashes between students and school districts over the limits — if any — that may be imposed on speech posted on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook. The cases sometimes pose difficult questions because the students claim that their speech occurred entirely outside [...]
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In what experts say could be a landmark decision, a Michigan school district has been ordered to pay $800,000 this week to a student who claimed the school did not do enough to protect him from years of bullying, some sexually tinged. This week’s jury verdict against Hudson Area Schools puts districts on notice that [...]
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With a vote set today in the state Senate, local lawmakers are lining up behind a bill to require schools to try to prevent bullying and develop plans for reporting and responding to the problem. “Kids need to know that they can’t bully other kids,” said state Sen. Karen Spilka, D-Ashland. “This is a step [...]
The prevalence of cyber-bullying and its psychological impact on non-heterosexual youth has been revealed in a new American study. According to research carried out at Iowa State University, one out of every two lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender (LGBT) and allied youths are regular victims of “cyber-bullying,” which leads to psychological and emotional distress to victims [...]
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The Queensland government says its laws are adequate to protect children and the teachers union says schools have enough powers to deal with bullies. But parents of bullied students are still coming forward with more horror stories. Education Minister Geoff Wilson called for “swift action” on the issue of bullying, as the Queensland Schools Alliance [...]
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Schools are typically on guard against students who bully by inflicting repeated violence on other students. But technology has given rise to a relatively new form of bullying which inflicts emotional harm in a stealth manner, working through Web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, cell phones and instant messaging. And according to a new national study [...]
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