Dr. Sameer Hinduja discusses the role of bystanders in cyberbullying.
(Note: This is a video clip of my friend and colleague, Dr. Sameer Hinduja, which appears on a “must see videos” site maintained by Dr. Russell Sabella. Both have participated in a rollicking email chat list set up by Nancy Willard, Director of the Center for [...]
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The Annual Conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association took place last week in Pittsburgh. The conference went extremely well and our early feedback has been overwhelmingly positive. As an IBPA Board Member, I can assure you that it took a lot of work by the IBPA Board and, especially, our partners in Pennsylvania, our [...]
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For those who might have wondered why this blog has been neglected recently, the answer that I’ve been preoccupied with the upcoming Annual Conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association. This year’s conference is next week in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and promises to be our most exciting and beneficial ever. We might even break the attendance [...]
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LATTA, SC (WMBF) – A ruling has been handed down in a student’s 2006 lawsuit against the Latta School District after she was not allowed to wear clothing bearing the confederate flag.
School district Superintendent John Kirby confirms a federal judge handed down the ruling on September 9 in favor of the school district’s actions.
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By Christopher Curry
Staff writer
More children from the Dove World Outreach Center arrived Tuesday at area public schools with shirts bearing the message “Islam is of the Devil” and were sent home for violation of the school district’s dress code when they declined to change clothes or cover the anti-Muslim statement on their clothing.
School district staff [...]
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With age comes wisdom. Usually. But by the time they’re 14, most kids have already forgotten more about technology than most of us who are over 40 will ever know.
It would be faster for me to write a letter on a typewriter, find an envelope and stamp and drive it to the post office than [...]
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MILWAUKEE (AP) — A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Wisconsin school district may continue to hold its graduation ceremonies in a church because the location doesn’t necessarily make it a religious event.
U.S. District Judge Charles Clevert ruled in a lawsuit brought by Americans United for Separation of Church and State against a district in [...]
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By DAN NEPHIN – 7 hours ago
PITTSBURGH (AP) — One of the nation’s oldest prep schools on Tuesday disputed a lawsuit brought by a former basketball coach who claims he was forced to quit after complaining that the school told him he was recruiting too many blacks.
Anthony Cheatham sued The Kiski School, an all-boys institution [...]
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The issue is as old as the teaching profession and as new as today: how do educators maintain appropriate boundaries with their students in the age of the Internet 2.0? On one hand, there are those who argue that, since this is where students congregate, use of social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, and even [...]
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RAMONA —- The American Civil Liberties Union claims a sixth-grade student’s free-speech rights were violated after her school told her she could not give a classroom presentation about Harvey Milk, the gay San Francisco supervisor assassinated in 1978, unless her classmates had signed permission slips from parents or guardians.
The ACLU on Wednesday sent a letter [...]
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