By Jonathan Saltzman Globe Staff / May 4, 2010 When Governor Deval Patrick signed Massachusetts’ first antibullying law yesterday, supporters heralded it as the most far-reaching effort yet by a state to deter behavior that has driven youngsters to suicide. But a number of civil rights lawyers and plaintiffs’ attorneys across the country and in [...]
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According to a new study in the journal of Pediatrics, children who can be classified as overweight or obese are 63 percent more likely to be bullied by their classroom peers than those children who sported an average weight. In order to come to these conclusions, the researchers studied 821 kids who attended third, fifth [...]
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(NOTE: I strongly disagree with the author’s conclusions and question some of the research cited, especially research critical of “whole school” bullying prevention programs, such as the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program. There is far more research that supports the positive results of whole school programs than the opposite conclusion. But I like to provide various [...]
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by Hannah Clay Wareham Associate Editor Tuesday May 4, 2010 Activists hope LGBT students will be protected despite lack of enumerated categories. The House and Senate unanimously passed the Anti-Bullying Bill on April 29, creating new measures to protect Massachusetts’s youth from bullying and harassment at school. Governor Deval Patrick signed the bill into law [...]
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