Aug
25

Social networking sites like Facebook create challenges for modern parents

Mike Tully on August 25th, 2010

In a recent study released by The Nielsen Company, it was determined that 54% of kids who use popular networking websites like Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter don’t actually know everyone on their “friend” lists. In a world where the internet is a playground for child predators, that number is downright scary. MORE  >>>

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Aug
24

The burden of being a young American Muslim

abrnchood on August 24th, 2010

(From the Washington Post.  Further evidence of mass bullying behavior in the U.S.  – Mike) A group of children leaving a Bridgeport, Connecticut mosque last week, as reported by the Connecticut Post, had to brace themselves as they walked past a group of about a dozen Christian protestors yelling “Islam is a lie” and “Jesus [...]

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Aug
23

Watertown school officials crack down on bullying (MA)

Mike Tully on August 23rd, 2010

Watertown school officials amended the district’s student handbook to include an expanded definition of bullying, and have begun crafting a policy to protect students and comply with new state law, School Committee members said. MORE  >>>

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Aug
23

The First Amendment applies to Muslims as well

Mike Tully on August 23rd, 2010

(NOTE:  I included this piece from naplesnews.com because the media has failed to identify one of the components of the current hysteria over the Islamic community center in lower Manhattan a couple of blocks from the site of the World Trade Center attack:  bullying.  The First Amendment is a profound anti-bullying provision because it gives [...]

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Aug
23

New Bully Prevention Center (NY)

Mike Tully on August 23rd, 2010

Senator Kemp Hannon announced this week that Child Abuse Prevention Services (CAPS) will help the Senator lead the charge against bullying and cyber-bullying in New York State by opening a Bully Prevention Center next month. MORE  >>>

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Aug
23

Victims of bullying suffer academically as well, UCLA psychologists report

Mike Tully on August 23rd, 2010

Students who are bullied regularly do substantially worse in school, UCLA psychologists report in a special issue of the Journal of Early Adolescence devoted to academic performance and peer relationships.   The UCLA study was conducted with 2,300 students in 11 Los Angeles–area public middle schools and their teachers. MORE  >>>

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Aug
20

Duncan: School bullying now a top federal priority

Mike Tully on August 20th, 2010

(NOTE:  Dr. Susan Limber, who is quoted extensively in this piece, will be presenting at the 7th Annual Conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association this November 15-17 in Seattle.  One of Dr. Limber’s co-presenters will be Dr. Dan Olweus, a widely respected pioneer in bullying research.  For more information on the conference please click [...]

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Aug
20

Judge dismisses Churchill High School’s “choir gate” (NV)

abrnchood on August 20th, 2010

An incident known as “choir gate” is back in the news today. Churchill County Judge William Rogers has ruled against music teacher Kathleen Archey; saying that an article written about her by a high school student truthfully communicated information to the public, and that nothing written by the student was false, defamatory or negligent. MORE  [...]

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Aug
20

U.Va. president launches review after editor’s suicide

Mike Tully on August 20th, 2010

Charlottesville – The University of Virginia is launching a “thorough review” of the operations of the Virginia Quarterly Review, the university’s award-winning literary magazine that has been rocked by the recent suicide of its managing editor and subsequent allegations of workplace bullying. MORE  >>>

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Aug
19

SPLC’s New Anti-Bullying Film and Teaching Kit Now Available

Mike Tully on August 19th, 2010

Online ordering is now available for educators interested in obtaining a free copy of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest Teaching Tolerance film – Bullied: A Student, a School and a Case that Made History.  Bullied tells the story of Jamie Nabozny, a student who stood up to his anti-gay tormentors and filed a federal [...]

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