Bullying
A new bill in Illinois would require schools to adopt anti-bullying policies, but the Illinois Family Institute and Concerned Christians of America say that the law would challenge certain students’ religious and moral beliefs. Some Illinois conservatives fear their children are about to face an assault on their morals and religious beliefs. They worry that [...]
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The word was love. The color was blue, a symbol of peace and serenity. About 250 parents, students and other citizens clothed in every hue of blue gathered Monday in front of Watertown High School to protest against the emotional destruction caused by bullies. Last week, rally organizer and Jefferson Community College student Patrick M. [...]
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AUGUSTA, Maine — A bill that toughens Maine’s stance on bullying in schools won legislative approval this week after months of revisions. The measure, LD 1237, provides educators and administrators with a clear definition of bullying, explicitly forbids bullying behavior, offers schools alternative discipline strategies, and outlines prevention policies and training for teachers. MORE >>>
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NORTON – Many students who feel bullied at school are still not reporting the abuse to teachers or administrators, with some saying the taunts and teasing occurs within supposedly safe confines of the classroom, according to a recently released survey of students. Jennifer O’Neill, the district’s curriculum director, presented the school committee with the survey [...]
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Teachers are increasingly being bullied, yelled at, and in rarer cases, physically assaulted by some assertive parents who believe they have an ”inalienable right to scream and demand things for their children,” the NSW Teachers Federation says. More than 80 per cent of the 2500 teachers and school staff surveyed say they have been bullied [...]
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Rochester schools Superintendent Michael Muñoz said the district is in the early stages of planning public meetings that would focus and encourage a community-wide discussion on the looming problem of bullying in the schools. “I’ve had some conversations with our community partners, and I think we’re looking at some type of World Cafe-type discussions inviting [...]
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Many of today’s principals would be likely to throw the book at a student who pinned down a classmate and clipped his hair, as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney did as a high school senior in 1965. Romney was not disciplined at the time. If such an attack happened in the public schools of 2012, [...]
NEW YORK – When Mitt Romney was a good-looking teen in the buttoned-up ’60s, corporal punishment was the norm and bullying had a different, more acceptable name: hijinks. Yet in today’s zero-tolerance world when it comes to, well, just about everything, things haven’t changed all that much for young victims of bullies. Definitions have tightened, [...]
I fear that I went too easy on Mitt Romney with regard to his high school bullying escapades. It’s not the incident itself that troubles me — though it was, obviously, outrageous and disgraceful — so much as his current response: He doesn’t remember it. This is patent nonsense. How could he not remember it? [...]
My colleague Jason Horowitz wrote in this Washington Post story about how Mitt Romney, when he was a senior at an elite private high school in Michigan, led a group of boys who “tackled” a boy who was presumed to be gay and had bleached-blond hair, held him down and chopped his hair off with [...]
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