bullying issues

There have been shock waves throughout Finland over a murder of a 16-year-old schoolboy by his fellow classmates, three other 16-year-old boys. He was beaten to death 4 December 2020 on public grounds near a hospital in Koskela, Helsinki. The shock comes from the fact that the victim has been...

Sky News did a Special Report on McCann Trolls. Police gathered a dossier of hateful tweets, Facebook posts and comments attacking the McCann family. Sky news reported on the dossier outing a twitter troll known as @sweepyface. The reporter outed @sweepyface as 63 year old Brenda Leyland from...

http://ktla.com/2014/05/20/anti-bullying-ordinance-in-carson-set-for-vote/#axzz32N3cCCqU While I am staunchly opposed to bullying, I find some of the details here quite troubling. I don't think parents should be held criminally liable for their child's actions, with the exception of extreme...

This according to a flier distributed to fifth graders at a Nebraska elementary school. "Tell an adult only when a real injury or crime has occurred. Would we keep our friends if we tattled on them?" the flier asks, because telling someone you're being bullied is just as bad as tattling on...

Here's a response to cyber-bullying I hadn't seen before. A mother apparently caught her daughter engaging in cyber-bullying and as punishment took a photograph of her holding a sign that reads: She then posted the photograph to Facebook, and shortly thereafter someone posted it on Reddit and...

You might ask if a 6'5" man that weighs 300 pounds can be bullied. And asking that would mark you as an idiot. Yes, Florida is living up to its reputation as the state where black men named Martin can be bullied. In this case the victim is an Offensive Tackle from the Miami Dolphins. The...

An interesting article which as me in two minds, as a victim of 'old skool' bullying it's nice to see someone going after them, but I'm not sure this is the right way. http://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/latest/a/-/newshome/15191781/charlotte-dawson-fights-back-against-twitter-trolls/ However, the...

A comment on another thread has prompted me to ask a question that's been floating round the back of my mind for some time. I'm in the UK, and I see two very different models of high school. On the one hand, there's the classic American high school, as presented in all sorts of TV shows, with...

http://www.edgeboston.com/news/politics/news/134341/romney_blocked_anti-bullying_guide_in_mass_because_of_2_lgbt_words What a slimeball. First he commits a gang assault on that kid in his school because the kid was effeminate, and then he forbids action to reduce bullying because it might...

http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/us/new-york-bullied-bus-monitor/index.html?hpt=hp_c1 I am unable to watch the video at work, but if this is true, I am utterly appalled at these students and can't help but wonder if they were raised by baboons. Actually wait, that's cruel to baboons; how about...

Yesterday I was watching the show "Head Games", which was demonstrating how we humans are all hard-wired to conform to the norms of society. Not only are we highly motivated to conform, we are motivated to enforce conformity on others. One experiment they showed involved getting people to...

What do you think of the link to the Characteristics of a bully? Do you think bullies precipitated any of the 59 School shootings that have happened in the last 15 years? Would being surrounded by bullies 24-7 make someone snap? Is humor a sign of someone that is NOT a bully? Do you think...

My state too. Watch the video, it's worth it. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/03/gretchen-whitmer-michigan-senator-bullying-bill_n_1073928.html

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2011/0418/Street-harassment-of-women-It-s-a-bigger-problem-than-you-think Think it isn't a problem? Think again.

Link: everyjoe dot com/play/video-casey-heynes-bodyslams-bully/ http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6e9_1300102958 Personally, I think the (bullied) kid was in his right to do what he did and suspending him is completely ridiculous. What's your opinion? (You have to fix the link manually, as I...

I'm a little hesitant about starting a new thread about bullying. However, it is a subject about which I am so interested in and have a lot of emotional investment in. My last venture was sidetracked, so I'd like to start fresh and in a more specific way. There is a new term out there...

Does anyone have experience of or know about a school or class where there was quite a lot of bullying at one point but the teachers or school staff or other pupils managed to stop it? If so, how did they do it? Did they change the behaviour of the bullies by harsher discipline or by other means...

As I've come to learn, many states are requiring school districts to adopt and anti bullying laws. It's pretty interesting to see how far we've come from the handwaiving, kids will be kids policy. The process in this district is a zero tolerance policy. The victim must address the complaint with...

There has been a disturbing rash of teens committing suicide over the past month because of bullying. The majority of the suicides were caused by ******** targeting these kids because they were gay. This led Dan Savage to put out a video, and request other do the same, describing how life gets...

It's not a video, it's a news article. Threatening to kill anyone is illegal. As far as I am concerned, that's the only crime he's commited but even that, I would have to hear the content to agree or disagree. False imprisonment, really? Are they trying to pad charges? Getting on a bus and...

This is just wrong, as a victim of this sort of behavior in the pre-internet age, I have nothing but contempt for the people behind this campaign. http://www.news.com.au/technology/jessi-slaughter-has-killed-herself-the-latest-rumour-in-an-unsavoury-tale-of-trolling/story-e6frfro0-1225894080075...

Much has been written in these forums about bullying, the bullies, the origins and the consequences. What is hardest to write about is how it feels specifically to be bullied. Everyone knows that it feels bad, that it breaks the spirit, that it hurts. But how to describe exactly the way it...

I've read this twice, and it still makes me sick to read it: I'd like to know where the school administration was. I'd like to know what the parents were thinking. This is simply an inexcusable act by these kids. Frankly, I'd like to see the ADULTS charged for their dereliction in this case.

I'm 62 years old and my highschool years are far behind me. Just as there are bullies now there were bullies in my day too. I wasn't victimized much by them but I still hated them and feared them. Watching some weaker student being shoved around was a very negative experience for me. I've...

http://www.newsweek.com/id/215997/?gt1=43002 On my MSN home page there is an article about teachers bullying a student so badly that he had to transfer to another school. He sued and won. The teachers accused him of being bi saying he "swang both ways". He did a report on Abe Lincold and...

Link FSM forbid that if you think your kid has a problem at school, you talk with the other parents. Better to call the cops. That's what they're for, after all.

I have a young child in private school. I recently found out that another child in the school has been bullying him for no apparent reason, and my kid has come home with bruises on his arms, legs, and once just above his groin where this other kid has punched and kicked him. My kid has been...

I get my nails done, maybe three or four times a year, usually for a special occasion, once in a while just for the luxury of it. This past Wednesday, I needed a treat and went to the manicurist. I started going to Harriet six or seven years ago, and when I first sat down at her little work...

A horrifying story: http://www.longmontfyi.com/regionstate.htm While the number of girls involved was small, it would seem (assuming the news story is accurate) that the school administration was tacitly allowing this. This school should lose its charter. (Of course, a side issue is why any...