Bullying
The high-profile documentary “Bully,” released in limited U.S. cities Friday, features Sioux City’s decade-long anti-bullying program and a Sioux City student who moved after being harassed repeatedly, especially on the school bus. The Sioux City district plans to show the film at schools, incorporating a curriculum now under development, said spokeswoman Alison Benson. Other Iowa [...]
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Dear Dirk, I have hated you almost every day since we first met. But for different reasons altogether than you might expect. I still remember the terror I felt, every time I approached the soccer field. It was junior high, a difficult time for almost everyone, but for me, especially so. You see, I’d always [...]
It’s not only the rating of public school teachers that we are getting so wrong these days. A documentary called “Bully,” which follows a handful of students who were bullied at school by their classmates over the course of a year, is at the center of a ridiculous battle over under what conditions teens can [...]
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By Jeffrey R. Young Dean Terry has 400 friends on Facebook, but he wants some virtual enemies. Mr. Terry, who is director of the emerging-media program at the University of Texas at Dallas, says a major flaw of the popular social network is that it’s all sunshine and no rain: The service encourages users to [...]
MANY anti-bullying programs do not work as schools need to focus on the bystanders not just the troublemakers, a visiting US expert says. ..Professor Stuart Twemlow, a consultant to the FBI after the Columbine school massacre, said the problem must be seen as symptomatic of “toxic group dynamics” not just caused by individuals. Prof Twemlow, [...]
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ARLINGTON — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder restated the Obama administration’s commitment to aggressively using the law to protect citizens, especially students, from discrimination and hate-fueled violence at a conference Tuesday at the University of Texas at Arlington. The first-ever White House LGBT Conference on Safe Schools and Communities included panel discussions on law enforcement [...]
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Boston – The Massachusetts Healthy Workplace Advocates announced March 5 that the anti-bullying Healthy Workplace Bill – Senate Bill 916 and House Bill 2310 – has progressed from the Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development and is due to go next to the House Committee on Ways and Means. MORE >>>
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Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation is teaming up with Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society to further academic research into both cyberbullying and real-life bullying amongst youths, and to ultimately empower a kinder and more accepting youth culture. MORE >>>
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In a landmark court decision, Hildegard Superina from Rijeka (Primorje-Gorski Kotar county) has been awarded 4,000 Euros in what is believed to be one of the first workplace harassment cases to be brought before the courts in Croatia. MORE >>>
Two Farwell parents have said they are concerned over incidents of bullying at the high school recently. Heather Smith (formerly Pardo) said her 17 year-old son was involved in and injured in a fight January 18. “He ended up being taken to the hospital in an ambulance,” she said. “He was assaulted by a 15 [...]
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