(NOTE: When someone tells you, “They just need to fight back,” refer them to this story, and others, that feature bullying victims who do just that. With weapons. This story, unfortunately, is quite common, and most of them don’t make the news. I have heard of several incidents like this from my contacts with schools [...]
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Japan’s Princess Aiko has been off school since early this week after complaining of being bullied, a royal household official has said.
The princess, eight, had come home from school in a state of anxiety and saying she had stomach pains, he said.
It was found she and other students in her class had been “treated harshly” [...]
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(NOTE: For more information on the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, feel free to email me. – Mike)
NEW YORK — There’s been a sharp drop in the percentage of America’s children being bullied or beaten up by their peers, according to a new national survey by experts who believe anti-bullying programs are having an impact.
The study, [...]
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HALF of Australian school students have bullied another chikd, while 70 per cent say that bullying is a moderate to extremely serious problem in their school.
The results of a national survey of 1000 students from Years 7 to 10 who had just undergone an anti-bullying seminar suggest the problem could be far greater than previous [...]
(NOTE: Sadly, this is what it will probably take to see workplace bullying legislation taken seriously by lawmakers. Could Jodie Bostick be America’s Brodie Panlock? Thanks to Workplace News for posting this. – Mike)
By Carol Forsloff, DigitalJournal.com
In Wisconsin one woman was so distraught from constant bullying by her supervisor she killed herself. Friends, families and [...]
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MILAN (Reuters) – Verdicts were expected on Wednesday on Google executives charged over a bullying video posted on the company’s Italian website, in a case that could set a precedent for Internet content responsibility.
The ruling comes as Italy’s government seeks to impose restrictions on hate pages on social networks and as YouTube, owned by Google, [...]
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By Joyce Kelly/Daily News staff
Daily News Tribune
Posted Feb 23, 2010 @ 12:01 AM
WALTHAM — Instead of heading to their first class yesterday to learn arithmetic or reading skills, Fitzgerald School students picked up valuable lessons on identifying types of bullying, and the difference between “tattling” and “good telling,” said Superintendent Peter Azar.
“It went very well. [...]
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THE father of Brodie Panlock, the 19-year-old girl who took her own life after a year of workplace bullying, has warned her former employer that any proceeds from the sale of Cafe Vamp may not last long.
Marc Luis Da Cruz, the owner of the Hawthorn cafe who was fined along with his company $250,000 this [...]
QUEENSLAND schools are failing to properly deal with the two worst kinds of bullying and often don’t even check how their existing anti-bullying measures are working, the Government’s own expert has warned.
Current approaches to tackling bullying inside the education system are unlikely to stem the growing menace of cyber-bullying. They also are unlikely to curb [...]
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(NOTE: I included this article for a couple of reasons. First of all, it illustrates that the problems of school and workplace bullying are global. Secondly — and I find this ironic — the author calls for the adoption of legislation against bullying in order to help India join the community of capitalist wealthy nations. [...]
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