For those of you who missed your regular weekday dose of “Substantial Disruption,” please be assured this blog is alive and healthy. I was away from the office last week while conducting Olweus Bullying Prevention Program training on the Hopi Reservation in Northern Arizona. This blog will continue its weekday postings without interruption for the [...]
A local family should be celebrating a son’s graduation, instead they are mourning his death. Scott Walz took his own life after enduring what his family describes as years of bullying. They say the school did not do enough to stop it. Now, as CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini reports, his friends are taking action [...]
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A recent report of frequent bullying in American schools has brought national attention to the stressors commonly faced by teens—stressors that many parents and teachers are unaware of. Society is struggling to understand how ‘atypical’ adolescent peer pressure has escalated into vicious student behavior at school. As educators seek ways to increase compassion and empathy [...]
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Nobody knows what part text messages might have played in the May 20 suicide of 11-year-old Celina Okwuone. But police have released transcripts of texts she received — and sent — just hours before she killed herself. Both outgoing and incoming messages are mean. Sarah Coleman, a Stuart psychologist who did not know Celina but [...]
Maggie Qiu Monday, June 07, 2010 Secondary students tend to react more passively than their counterparts in primary schools when they come across instances of cyber bullying, a survey has revealed. A poll of 2,629 students by the Church of United Brethren in Christ found nearly 60 percent of secondary students chose to ignore cyber [...]
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SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (WWLP) – It was a bittersweet commencement for South Hadley high school seniors. There were two less graduates on Sunday — after being “removed” from school following the bullying-related suicide of Phoebe Prince. At the start of the ceremony a moment of silence was offered for the Freshman who hanged herself in [...]
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BEDFORD, Ohio – A boy in first grade is accused of urinating on a little girl in a school cafeteria. The incident happened Tuesday afternoon at the “Central Primary School” in Bedford. The principal says two male students have been disciplined in connection with this incident, but declined to say what type of punishment they [...]
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By DIANA FISHLOCK, The Patriot-News June 07, 2010, 12:00AM At Lawnton Elementary School, fourth-grader Philip Givler receives individual and group speech and language therapy and spends half his time in an autism classroom. He used to visit a sensory room daily and receive occupational therapy to help him master physical tasks, such as holding a [...]
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