Thank you to Allison Neal at TutorDoctor.com for this great information.
Just a reminder that regular martial arts training is one of the best ways to stop bullying. I know. I was bullied all through until I started training. Read my story at: http://www.mattrandall.com/About_Master_Randall.html
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In The News
ABC News (October 15, 2010): School bullying is epidemic and turning deadly. Click on this site to watch victim stories, get resources and more information and find out why kids become bullies. (read more)
USA Today (October 6, 2010): Teenage bullying is as old as the schoolyards where it happens. But where bullies once went home at the end of the school day, today they torment their targets at all hours through Internet portals and cellphones.
There's no single, simple way to prevent cyber-cruelty so severe that the victims see no escape. Updated harassment laws, tougher enforcement, education and parental supervision all have a role.
But one untapped approach is to try to harness the same technology that facilitates the cruelty as a way to combat it. If fighting back against bullies is a timeless way to silence them, perhaps what's needed is a heavy dose of cyber-disgrace, imposed not by law but virally by more mature and responsible students.(read more)
The New York Times (June 27, 2010): Schools these days are confronted with complex questions on whether and how to deal with cyber-bullying, an imprecise label for online activities ranging from barrages of teasing texts to sexually harassing group sites. The extent of the phenomenon is hard to quantify. But one 2010 study by the Cyberbullying Research Center, an organization founded by two criminologists who defined bullying as "willful and repeated harm” inflicted through phones and computers, said one in five middle-school students had been affected.
Affronted by cyberspace’s escalation of adolescent viciousness, many parents are looking to schools for justice, protection, even revenge. But many educators feel unprepared or unwilling to be prosecutors and judges. (read more)
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School Bullying Statistics
I found these statistics startling and had to share them with you. (read them all)
- 1 out of 4 kids is bullied.
- 77% of students are bullied mentally, verbally & physically
- 8% of students miss 1 day of class per month for fear of bullies
- 43% fear harassment in the bathroom at school
- 100,000 students carry a gun to school
- 28% of youths who carry weapons have witnessed violence at home
North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Center for the Prevention of School Violence Statistics compiled by Kathy Knoll at: http://hometown.aol.com/kthynol
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