May 16, 2012
On April 4, Coronach School students, staff and community members put on pink shirts in support of the Red Cross anti-bullying campaign. As well as wearing pink, students participated in a number of anti-bullying activities including having to have a conversation with 10 people they would not normally talk to. They had to fill out [...]
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May 16, 2012
The colour pink is becoming a symbol of hope for thousands of Kiwis who are bullied. Reporter Hannah Spyksma met with change-maker Philip Patston to chat about the messages behind this Friday’s Pink Shirt Day. Bullying is not just a kids’ issue – it’s rampant throughout our society, a leading Auckland social entrepreneur says. “I [...]
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May 16, 2012
Teachers are increasingly being bullied, yelled at, and in rarer cases, physically assaulted by some assertive parents who believe they have an ”inalienable right to scream and demand things for their children,” the NSW Teachers Federation says. More than 80 per cent of the 2500 teachers and school staff surveyed say they have been bullied [...]
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May 07, 2012
Teenagers posting anonymous slanderous comments on Facebook are being warned of serious consequences for bullying behaviour on the internet. Offending pages have been pulled down by Facebook after a group of Gisborne mums banded together over the past two days, horrified at the contents of two particularly “nasty” pages. But not before many Gisborne teenagers [...]
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April 29, 2012
ATLANTA—When a Georgia middle school student reported to police and school officials that she had been bullied on Facebook, they told her there was not much they could do because the harassment occurred off campus. So the 14-year-old girl, Alex Boston, is using a somewhat novel strategy to fight back: She’s slapping her two classmates [...]
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April 26, 2012
It was a sea of pink that took to Estevan’s downtown, marching in waves against bullies in all areas of our lives. Pink Shirt Day was marked April 4 with students and community members, of between 800 and 1,000 by organizer’s estimates, wearing pink T-shirts in an effort to take a stand against bullying in [...]
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April 26, 2012
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky mother who claims her 9-year-old daughter has been bullied for two school years is seeking a restraining order against a fourth-grade boy she accused of tormenting her daughter, kicking her in the chest and chasing her with scissors. Joy Furman, the girl’s mother, wants the boy to stay at least [...]
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April 24, 2012
It didn’t take a fistfight to sort out the swaggering bullies at a Nova Scotia high school five years ago . . . just 50 pink T-shirts purchased from a discount store. Male students wore those T-shirts as a sign of support for a new Grade 9 boy who’d been bullied for wearing a pink [...]
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April 24, 2012
Saskatchewan schools are a sea of pink this week as teachers and students show they will not accept bullying. The Red Cross Pink Shirt campaign gives students the tools to not only stand up to bullies, but to help those who are being victimized. It’s a campaign M.J. Coldwell School in Regina has made its [...]
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April 24, 2012
“Why does it feel so good to be so bad?” So moans the evil Queen Doris of the Sixth Dimension in 1982’s cult musical Forbidden Zone, quite possibly the omphalos of stylish cynicism and postmodern trash. Does it still feel this way? Is being “so young, so bad, so what?”– the reform school girls’ anthem [...]
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 Irish Times | Cyber-bullying concerns Quinn Irish Times Minister for Education Ruairi Quinn and Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald arrive at aa Department of Education forum on bullying. Photograph: Alan Betson. Teachers are increasingly the victims of cyber-bullying and some have been forced to hide ... Homophobic bullying 'widespread' in Irish schools UNESCO pushes for international anti-LGBT bullying legislation Frances Fitzgerald commends youths who oppose homophobic bullying |
Arab: CBE trustee gets a lesson in bullying Calgary Herald Let's talk about bullying. So says a headline on the website of the CBE, which enforces zero tolerance on bullying in its schools. “At the Calgary Board of Education we are committed to having safe and caring schools . . . Let's work together to make ... |
 Washington Times | Romney's bullying gets another pass Philadelphia Inquirer By Jan C. Ting The media have given Mitt Romney a pass he doesn't deserve on his response to a report that he bullied other students at his Michigan boarding school. Romney was fortunate in that the bullying story broke in the wake of President Obama's ... Romney, Obama and bullying Letters: 'Moral' candidate Romney dodges moral leadership on bullying incident Rick Holmes: Mitt Romney's bully pulpit |
Winning Student Essays on Bullying New York Times (blog) By NICHOLAS KRISTOF My Thursday column is about the winners in my essay contest about bullying, but the column is too short to publish more than excerpts there. So here are the full versions of the winning essays. But first, a thanks to my partners in ... |
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