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05
Jul
2009
Central schools consider strict bullying policy  

9 hours ago by heygrrrl

By Chante Dionne Warren The Advocate CENTRAL, Louisiana — School bullies may stand head and shoulders above their victims, but newer and more menacing threats are those who use text-messaging and e-mail to harass other students, said Central school system officials. The Central School Board is sched ...

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04
Jul
2009
Japanese Boy Beaten to Near Death in New Zealand  

2 days ago by te2ataria

Japanese boy, 14, needed brain surgery to remove potentially fatal blood clot after racially-motivated beating at Forest View high school,Tokoroa, New Zealand Ryotaro Wright, whose mother is Japanese, was attacked by at least 4 students, who repeatedly punched and kicked him and then dropped him on ...

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03
Jul
2009
Beating bullies: Seeking solutions to youth violence  

3 days ago by heygrrrl

Newswise &@8212; Sally Black, RN, Ph.D., associate professor of health services at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, was particularly happy to see the American Association of Pediatrics’ newly released policy statement on preventing youth violence. She was even more elated that for the firs ...

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Parent says school ignored bullying of son  

3 days ago by heygrrrl

Letter to the editor The News Herald Connelly Springs, N.C. — I would like to know when it became OK to overlook bullying in schools. For almost a year now, my son, 6, had a problem with a boy two years older than him. My son has been kicked in the face, choked and called fat, tub [...]

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Wisconsin: New bully prevention recommendations  

3 days ago by heygrrrl

WINK News At a middle school in Wisconsin, students perform in front of a class — in what is called ‘social improvisation’. In the performance, one student is bullied, while others stand around and watch, or giggle… But they don’t do anything about it. The girl who’s being bullied, whose hair was pu ...

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Teen bullying: Tormented boy’s life ends in suicide  

3 days ago by heygrrrl

By Gerry Smith Chicago Tribune The bullying seemed inescapable. His family and friends say it followed Iain Steele from junior high to high school — from hallways, where one tormentor shoved him into lockers, to cyberspace, where another posted a video on Facebook making fun of his taste for heavy m ...

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NYC Dept. of Education takes beating on bullying  

3 days ago by heygrrrl

By Meredith Kolodner The Daily News The city gets a D- for its efforts to protect students from bullying and bias attacks, new surveys say. It has not implemented the regulations it passed last year, two reports released Tuesday by a coalition of legal and advocacy groups charged. As a result, there ...

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MySpace bullying conviction tentatively tossed  

3 days ago by heygrrrl

By Linda Deutsch Associated Press LOS ANGELES (July 2) — A federal judge on Thursday tentatively threw out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. U.S. District Judge George Wu said he was acquitting ...

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02
Jul
2009
GOTTA KNOW YOUR TARGETS  

3 days ago by TheHammer

YOU GOTTA KNOW THE TARGETS My last post spoke of the efficacy of learning principles over techniques. This post, I thought I could talk about one of the key principles of my many self defense training programs (Kid Escape/Counter Abduction Techniques/Comet Kids/Advanced Fighting Arts For Women/Sixty ...

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Train our Educators How to Identify and Modify Bullying Behaviors and Help ...  

4 days ago by KidGuru

It is the beginning of the school year and all too soon there has been a school shooting – a fatal incident in Knoxville, TN. And, once again, people across the country are stunned, heartbroken and committed to stopping the ongoing school violence. Research indicates that in more than two-thirds of ...

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