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Last week, a Missouri judge issued a preliminary injunction against the state, suspending part of a law that would have made it illegal for teachers and students to connect via social networks. Section 162.069.4 of the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act — which aims to protect children from sexual predators — prohibits teachers from establishing, [...]
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Infants don’t really have what it takes to be bullies. They simply lack the physicality — the strength and coordination and mobility — to be aggressive. But are some of these babies already little bullies inside, just waiting to show their dukes? That may sound like a cynical view of human nature, but it’s basically [...]
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MENTAL health issues have overtaken physical injury as the cause of the longest absences from work. About 55 per cent of people who suffer stress or other mental conditions on the job are taking five or more sick days in a row, figures from the Bureau of Statistics publication, Australian Social Trends, June 2011, show. [...]
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For a while after his first TV series was broadcast in 2009, comedian Stewart Lee was in the habit of collecting and filing some of the comments that people made about him on web pages and social media sites. He did a 10-minute Google trawl most days for about six months and the resultant collected [...]
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A 5th grade student inspires a schoolwide antibullying effort. When I went into my office, a typed booklet lay on my desk. A note on the front page read, Dear Principal Curtis, Is there a time when I can talk to you sometime this week? —Saijal I sat down, opened the booklet, and slowly began [...]
Bullying remains the top safety concern among Virginia’s public school students, according to a statewide survey of principals and superintendents. The Virginia School Safety Survey found that among the 737 elementary, middle and high schools that gave students anonymous safety surveys, bullying emerged as students’ main concern at all grade levels in 2009-10, the most [...]
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When Kari Poss handed out an anonymous survey on bullying to the students at Harlem Middle School, she was surprised by the results. “It was eye-opening,” said Poss, a probation officer with Columbia County Juvenile Court. Not only did nearly half of the students report having been subjected to some kind of bullying, but the [...]
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(NOTE: The article includes a link to downloadable PDF version of the study. – Mike) Compromised desktops have become hackers’ preferred entry point into corporate networks. As more workers adopt mobile technologies and bring their work home with them, home computing practices have become a serious source of risk not only to consumers, but also [...]
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In my recent article, “The NEA and WWE’s New Anti-Bullying Campaign,” I questioned the National Education Association and the Creative Coalition for partnering with WWE to create the Be A Star anti-bullying program. Many people, specifically fans of the WWE and Ms. Robin Bronk, Executive Director of the Creative Coalition, disagree with my assessment that [...]
(NOTE: This reflects similar conclusions regarding the impact on witnesses and bystanders in the school setting. Bullying activity seems to affect everybody: the target, the aggressor, and the bystanders. – Mike) Workplace bullying has a ripple effect, hurting victims as well as colleagues who witness it, a new study has found. The study of more [...]
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