Saturday, October 20, 2012

School bullying

  • Bryan Lindquist Controversy: Anoka-Hennepin Parents Upset That Anti-Bullying ...

    He was recently named to sit on the district's 25-member anti-bullying task force composed of students, school employees and community members, and mothers Tammy Aaberg and Melissa Thompson are outraged.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • 8 Ontario girls arrested in high school bullying case

    Eight teenage girls at a high school in London, Ont., have been arrested in connection with a bullying incident involving another student, police say.

    www.cbc.ca

  • Vt. school district considers cameras on buses

    POWNAL, Vt. (AP) - A southern Vermont school district is considering putting cameras inside and outside of school buses to deter bullying and identify vehicles that fail to stop for the buses. The Pownal School District board has included $10,000 in ...

    www.boston.com

  • Freeport Schools: Bullying policy may be revised

    The Freeport School Board Wednesday discussed several possible revisions to the District 145 Aggressive Behavior and Bullying Policy, including a more specific definition of what constitutes bullying. Stephanie Helms, communications director for ...

    www.journalstandard.com

  • Stoughton middle school students take down bullying, one poster at a time

    A group of O'Donnell Middle School students conveyed both appeal and delivered anti-bullying messages with their artwork, currently featured in the Stoughton Public Library.

    www.wickedlocal.com

  • Schools hold moment of silence for victims of bullying

    On Friday, nearly 300,000 students and staff in Toronto schools honoured the victims of bullying with a moment of silence at 11 a.m.

    www.theglobeandmail.com

  • Petway school promotes anti-bullying

    And this year, as a fifth-grader, she applied what she learned to help organize her school's "Stomp Out Bullying Rally" that brought all the school students together in the playground for a common cause. "I'm feeling pretty good," Guiliani said ...

    www.thedailyjournal.com

  • Comments on bullying result in backlash, new dialogue

    "I honestly cannot believe the comments by the president of the school superintendents here," wrote Stephen Handwerk, executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party.

    www.theadvertiser.com

  • White Rock mom angry that school punished son for fighting back against bully

    His decision to do so earned him a punishment equal to the other boy's, something that has ignited a local debate over one's right to self-defend when confronted by bullying versus the local school district's zero tolerance policy on violence. Doug ...

    www.theprovince.com

  • Spirit Day: Stand Up Against Bullying And Support LGBT Youth

    Today marks a relatively young, but nonetheless important, annual event: Spirit Day, a day dedicated for standing up against bullying and supporting LGBT youth or LGBT-perceived youth. Brittany McMillan, a Canadian high school student, started Spirit ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • LA School District, Gay Center Launch Anti-Bullying Progam To Combat Teen ...

    With the help of the L.A. Gay and Lesbian Center, the L.A. Unified School District is launching SPIN, or Suicide Prevention Intervention Now, to address a culture of bullying that has existed for far too long in one of the nation's largest school ...

    www.queerty.com

  • Colman Chadam, California Boy, Ordered To Transfer Schools For Carrying ...

    Nadia Ilse. To ward off school bullies who began taunting her in the first grade for her ears, Nadia Ilse begged her mother at the age of 10 for an otoplasty -- an operation to pin her ears back.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Flint Schools Probe Bullying Of Autistic Student Who Refused Marijuana

    FLINT (WWJ/AP) - School officials in Flint are investigating a claim that an autistic ninth-grader was assaulted by other students when he refused to take a marijuana blunt.

    detroit.cbslocal.com

  • Cyberbullying-linked suicides rising, study says

    There have been 41 suicides since 2003 involving cyberbullying in the United States, Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom, but most of the victims were also bullied in school and many suffered from mental illness, including depression, said John C.

    www.cbc.ca

  • Kelseyville school: Pen is mightier than fist in anti-bullying campaign

    KELSEYVILLE -- Nearly 40 Mountain Vista Middle School students used their drawing skills, penmanship and quick wit to advocate against bullying in an inaugural poster contest this fall. "We really want to make anti-bullying a big deal," Tammi Mendonca, ...

    www.record-bee.com

  • NJ school bullying apparently not widespread

    Student bullying in New Jersey is concentrated in the middle-school grades, overwhelmingly verbal in nature, and not nearly as widespread on the Internet as some might think.

    www.philly.com

  • WRCBtv.com | Chattanooga News, Weather & SportsWas an eighth-grader ...

    CATOOSA COUNTY, GA (WRCB) -- In seventh grade, they were friends. Now, Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe Middle School eighth-grader Brooke Lepard says several girls bully her for refusing to bully others. "I stand up for everybody, because I feel bad when ...

    www.wrcbtv.com

  • Bayonne schools kick off anti-bullying program that features lovable pirate shark

    Enlarge Lauren Casselberry/The Jersey Journal Captain McFinn, escorted by student council president Alicia Bettencurth, right, and vice-president Paola Eusebio, makes his grand entrance during the Captain McFinn and Friends Bully Prevention S.H.A.R.K.

    www.nj.com

  • Arlington Lamar anti-bully campaign gets results

    Arlington teen takes a stand against bullyingadd to reading list; LINK: LHS Love is Louder Facebook page. ARLINGTON -- A North Texas student, fed up with being bullied for years, is suddenly finding huge support in her high school. About two weeks ago ...

    www.wfaa.com

  • Letter: End bullying

    As a senior at T.L. Hanna High School, I find that Gov. Nikki Haley's anti-bullying tour is a step in the right direction.

    www.independentmail.com

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