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In response to the recent Massachusetts Anti-Bullying Law, the School Committee recently instituted an anti-bullying policy and created a new website devoted to bullying prevention. A task force composed of about 30 students, teachers, parents, school officials and police officers led by Deputy Superintendent Paul Stein wrote the policy beginning in April. The task force [...]
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In August 2010, the U.S. Departments of Education and Health and Human Services co-hosted the first Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summit. This summit highlighted the need for complete information on 1) the current status of state bullying legislation and 2) how existing bullying laws and policies translate into practice within school districts and local [...]
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(Note: This is a pretty lame, watered-down bill. Pathetic. – Mike) The state Senate overwhelmingly approved this morning a measure to require all Michigan school districts to enact an anti-bullying policy. The Senate moved quickly to adopt a House version of the legislation on a vote of 35-2, after its own earlier anti-bullying bill attracted national [...]
Sylvain Gaudreault, the Parti Québécois MNA for Jonquière riding, wants Facebook to block subscribers who use the social-networking site for cyberbullying. “It is important to control social networks,” Gaudreault said Thursday, adding that France is doing so already. He called on Education Minister Line Beauchamp to intervene with Facebook, and proposed that school boards take [...]
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An anti-bully bill that originally drew criticism for not going far enough to protect children in Michigan will now go to Gov. Rick Snyder for consideration. A House version of the proposed law, which requires all school districts to create a policy, passed the state Senate today by a vote of 35-2. A previous Senate [...]
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(NOTE: This probably falls under the “no harm in asking” rule. While Supreme Court guidance is definitely needed, I expect that SCOTUS will decline jurisdiction, especially after their embarrassing Morse v Frederick “bong hits for Jesus” opinion. – Mike) The National School Boards Association, along with other education groups, has asked the Supreme Court of [...]
Michigan Dems say the Republican Senate gutted an anti-bullying bill when they added a clause that allows bullying based on “moral convictions.” SB 137, also called “Matt’s Safe School Law” after 14-year old Matt Eppling who committed suicide in 2002 after being bullied, was approved in the state Senate by a 26-11 party line vote, [...]
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(Guest Conbribution – Mike) By Warren J. Blumenfeld www.warrenblumenfeld.com In a move seeming more like a perverse parody or a distasteful joke than an official legislative action, the Michigan state Senate passed what I am calling the “Permission to Bully Act” in the guise of protecting youth from bullying and harassment in the schools. Divided [...]
COLUMBUS, OH., (Indiana’s NewsCenter)— Cyberbullying has Ohio legislatures and local school officials scrambling for a solution. The Ohio House of Representatives and the Ohio Senate both have new bullying legislation in their education committees calling for schools to provide a policy against cyberbullying, which the house bill defines as “harassment, intimidation, or bullying by electronic [...]
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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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