...becoming the first professional sports team to join the online campaign against gay bullying and homophobia.
Pitchers Matt Cain, Barry Zito and Sergio Romo; centerfielder Andres Torres; and batting coach Hensley "Bam Bam" Meulens.
itgetsbetter.org
This delightful heartwarming book tells the story of Sidney and Harry, two Groks who live in the land of Binnee-Boo-Bok. Harry is big and strong and the best at Grok games. Sidney is small and no good at all. But when an accident befalls Harry, the Groks soon discover being small can be a good thing! The entire story rhymes and the striking illustrations ensure children will want to read its positive message over and over again!
Showing posts with label bullying. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bullying. Show all posts
Friday, June 17, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Teen girl sues Seattle school, alleges relentless bullying
'Each day was like a war zone'
By VANESSA HO, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Monday, June 6, 2011
Hamill' tells inspirational story of deaf fighter who continues to win
Teased and bullied by kids growing up because he was different, Hamill credits his grandfather for teaching him respect, honor and pride.
By Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press
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By Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press
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The movie spotlight shines this fall on Matt (The Hammer) Hamill, his opponent in Saturday night's main event at UFC 130, when "Hamill" opens in theatres.
The film is the inspirational story of Hamill, who was born deaf. It depicts Hamill's youth but focuses mostly on 1997 when — as a sophomore walk-on at the Rochester Institute of Technology, which has a deaf school — he won the first of three NCAA Division 3 wrestling championships.
"Hamill" is a study of perseverance. Movie-goers will likely wipe away a tear and leave with a healthy respect for Matt Hamill, as well as a better grasp of deaf life.
Directed by Oren Kaplan, the film uses sound or lack thereof as well as subtitles, often with words missing, to gets its message across.
At the heart of the movie is a deft, understated performance by Russell Harvard, the deaf actor who plays Hamill. You may remember Harvard for his brief appearance as Daniel Day-Lewis' grown-up son H.W. at the end of "There Will be Blood."
"Hamill" has been entered in six film festivals to date — Newport Beach, Florida, AFI, Miami, Cleveland and Philadelphia — and won audience awards in every one.
"There's been an overwhelming response to the film, which has been amazing ... People really respond to Matt's story. I think it's universal," said co-writers Joseph McKelheer.
In real life or on the movie screen, it's hard not to root for Matt Hamill.
"I'm just trying to be who I am," he tells reporters with a broad smile. "I'm happy the way I am."
Copyright © 2011 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
Friday, June 3, 2011
'The Bully Project': A Film Takes On Harassment, From Iowa to Tribeca
By Robert Levin
http://www.theatlantic.com
Robert Levin Robert Levin - Robert Levin writes about film and other entertainment topics for amNewYork, Inside Jersey, Backstage, and elsewhere. He is a member of the New York Film Critics Online guild.
An interview with documentarian Lee Hirsch about one of the most talked-about movies at this year's Tribeca Film Festival
One of the most talked-about movies at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, The Bully Project, shines light on a serious problem: More than 5.7 million U.S. schoolchildren are involved in bullying each year.
In The Bully Project, documentarian Lee Hirsch conducts a cross-country examination of bullying, looking at a Sioux City, Iowa teenager tortured for being different, a lesbian high school student in Oklahoma, families who lost their bullied children to suicide, and other case studies. Securing a distribution deal with the Weinstein Company yesterday, the film is at once a devastating portrait of individuals tormented for being different and an inspirational depiction of communities standing up to right an egregious wrong. Here, Hirsch offers his thoughts on his hopes for the project.
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It seems like bullying has gotten worse in recent years. Do you agree?
I don't know if I share that perspective. It's really deeply personal, based on our own experiences. I think maybe what's happening is that we're talking about it more and this sense it's gotten worse is because it's more acceptable to talk about it. We are seeing more correlations being made between young suicides and bullying, and I think that's creating this perception.
The other thing that I think has changed, which isn't so much an element in our film, is the cyber-bullying component. It can make it worse. . . . What's interesting is as we were out filming the film, the families and the kids we were meeting and filming with, cyber-bullying wasn't the thing. It was the sort of classic brick-and-mortars bullying that you and I remember. I don't know if it's getting worse or if we're just calling it when we see it more.
Why do you think there's such a groundswell of attention around the bullying epidemic?
I think part of what's happening is people are networked very well on Facebook that are aligned around this issue—in particular, a lot of the families who've lost children. So they kind of went and ran with it. As far as the groundswell, a lot of things have happened in the last six months. There's been a bullying summit at the White House. There have been major initiatives by CNN and Cartoon Network.
There are a number of things that are going to come together that are really exciting around The Bully Project. I would like to think that we are maybe at the beginning of a tipping-point moment, and that hopefully The Bully Project will be a piece of that and give something really tangible that people can hold on to and run with and feel moved through and then translate that into action.
What do you want young viewers in particular to take away from the film?
In the film, we've certainly shied away from any kind of legislative agenda. Rather, I think the focus, at least for us, especially because we're not experts, is to hopefully allow people to feel like they can make a difference. Particularly young viewers—that they can stand up, they can put a stop to it, they can step in on someone's behalf and that that's empowering, that's possible and that really will cause change.
How did you begin the process of finding your subjects?
Initially we were reading a lot of local stories. There were two high-profile suicides around the time that we started. Ellen DeGeneres had done a show with the moms. And there were so many comments on her webpage, close to a thousand, and many of them were from kids or families that were dealing with similar situations—that were, in effect, in crisis. Our first access break really came from producers of the Ellen show, who agreed to pass on e-mails to us of some of the families.
How about getting the Sioux City Community School District on board to let you film in one of its schools? That must have been a challenge.
One of our funders has been doing bullying- and violence-prevention work in the Sioux City area for 10 years. That's the Waitt Family Foundation. They have been highly supportive of bringing programming and helping out in the Sioux City Community School District. They were able to facilitate an introduction to the superintendent, the school board, and the administrators of the district. We told them what we wanted to do in a series of meetings and presentations to the school board and asked if they would consider it. And they decided to allow us to film inside their school.
What do you make of their willingness to be involved, and to take some of the heat that comes with the film's depiction of their inability to effectively combat in-house bullying?
It's a tough thing, because a lot of the emotional blame in the film gets made on the administrator that you see. It's tough. I mean the reality is that they were pretty amazing to allow us to do what we did and to stand behind the film. The administration was at the premiere—the superintendent came to New York to be with us—and one of the things they've said and stood by, even if the outcome doesn't make them look great, is, "If we do this, not only will we learn, but maybe we can help other schools, other administrators and help make a difference." I think it was a really brave and generous position that school district took. I really applaud them.
To really reach people, a film like The Bully Project obviously needs to be shown not just on the usual release platforms, but in special screenings on a community level. What's an example of how you plan to do that?
We were approached by the Philadelphia City Council, in partnership with the School District of Philadelphia. They're busy planning a Bully Project day for back to school, which is super-awesome. The components are: The film will screen at the National Constitution Center, hopefully with major guests from government, possibly celebrities, hopefully some of the families in the film. We'll have a kids representative from all the schools, and each school in the district will be screening it at the same time in their buildings. Then we'll have a video-conference Q&A across the schools, with the Constitution Center event. Then they'll break up into groups and spend the rest of the day discussing, talking, and working out their feelings that come from the film.
What's more interesting is that there are already student leaders planning that event now for back-to-school. It's got a lot of support behind it, but there's a massive student component, so they can take ownership of it. . . . That's the kind of thing that's really powerful. If we can do more of those, if that becomes the model, that would be a dream come true.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Bullying: Fighting back, from the stage
Students in the CAP / Plaza de la Raza Theater Program explore bullying in the play "Life is a Dream" ("La Vida es Sueño"). (Scott Groller)
Los Angeles-area teenagers are taking the crusade against bullying to the stage. Their play, an adaptation of the 17th century Spanish classic "Life is a Dream" ("La Vida es Sueño") by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, takes the action into a modern high school setting and uses students' experiences with bullying to explore how it affects kids....Guest playwright Sarah Louise Wilson led the 47 students, who range in age from 11 to 18, in a series of writing exercises about bullying. She asked whether they'd been bullied, and whether they'd bullied other people. Everyone had a story to write, Wilson said -- and she took those stories and incorporated them into the adaptation. When the curtain rises, the hero of the play is being picked on by other kids. He becomes popular and starts bullying others, and is eventually humbled himself.
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Monday, May 30, 2011
Local non-profit sets out to build self-esteem in kids and end bullying
PHOENX - Let's talk about the bullies our children encounter in school. According to the National Education Association Bullying Study, more than 40 percent of all kids think bullying is a major problem in their school. Sixty-two percent of kids say they've been a witness to bullying at least once and often twice just in the past month!
Carrie Severson , the founder of Severson Sisters , a non-profit in the Valley, is trying to put an end to bullying by building their confidence. We sat down with her to learn more about bullying today.
Read Interview Here
Friday, May 27, 2011
Taylor Swift battles bullies, critics, and silent movie villains in new 'Mean' video: Watch it here
by Kyle Anderson
http://music-mix.ew.com
Taylor Swift‘s “Mean,” the latest single from her multiplatinum third album Speak Now, was originally written in response to a music critic who wrote not-nice things about her. But in the just-premiered video for the song, Swift spins the stripped-down country tune into an outsider anthem starring herself, her honky-tonk combo, a gay teen, and at least one old-timey bad guy tying her to a railroad track. Check it out after the jump.
http://music-mix.ew.com
Taylor Swift‘s “Mean,” the latest single from her multiplatinum third album Speak Now, was originally written in response to a music critic who wrote not-nice things about her. But in the just-premiered video for the song, Swift spins the stripped-down country tune into an outsider anthem starring herself, her honky-tonk combo, a gay teen, and at least one old-timey bad guy tying her to a railroad track. Check it out after the jump.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
May 23-27, Maryland recognizes Second Annual Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week.
Katie O'Malley: Standing up against bullying in Maryland
Private, public partners joining forces during Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week in Maryland
Despite the commonly held perceptions, when it comes to bullying, everyone is a victim, from our schools to our communities. The message is simple: A child's mental health is just as important as their physical health.
Last year, we teamed up with the Maryland State Department of Education to declare Bullying Prevention and Awareness Week in May to encourage schools and communities across the state to engage students in events to stress nontolerance toward bullying.
Bullying may be physical or verbal. Teasing, harassing, spreading rumors, actively ignoring or intentionally hurting another child are all forms of bullying. Victims of bullying are more likely to experience depression, less likely to be accepted by classmates and may experience a drop in their self-esteem. And in some cases, the effects are fatal, causing our children to commit suicide or do harm to themselves — dimming the light on their once bright futures.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Lady Gaga on teen bullying: 'The boys threw me in the trashcan'
By Carina Adly MacKenzie
Listen To Lady Ggga Tell Her Story Here
MTV has just announced their upcoming Lady Gaga documentary, "Lady Gaga: Inside the Outside," which -- according to the press release -- "will provide fans an intimate look at the evolution of Stefani Germanotta into one of pop's most influential and successful artists of our time." As always, Gaga is raw and open with her fans, exposing even the more painful parts of her childhood in the hopes that her fans will relate to her story and feel empowered.
Monday, May 16, 2011
Justin Bieber will take a stand against bullying
Justin Bieber flew his hero -- bully beater Casey Heynes -- to Melbourne to check out the concert ... but the biggest surprise for Casey was yet to come.
Bieber -- who's supported the anti-bullying movement ever since being on the receiving end of it last year -- ended up bringing Casey on stage in front of THOUSANDS of screaming fans ... calling him "very inspirational" for showing people "how to stand up for what they believe in."
Friday, May 6, 2011
Puppy Love and Bullies and a Bow-Tied Teacher
Movie Review | 'That’s What I Am'
By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Ed Harris, center, plays a middle-school teacher in 1965 in “That's What I Am,” written and directed by Mike Pavone.
Ed Harris, center, plays a middle-school teacher in 1965 in “That's What I Am,” written and directed by Mike Pavone.
You can trust Ed Harris to locate the essence of every character he portrays. And in “That’s What I Am,” Mike Pavone’s righteous reflection on bullying and tolerance, Mr. Harris’s depiction of a saintly, soft-spoken, bow-tie-wearing middle-school teacher lends the movie a moral weight it probably couldn’t have summoned had another actor played the role.
Set in 1965 in a small Southern California town, “That’s What I Am” is a sentimental Hallmark-style movie (part after-school special, part “Wonder Years” offshoot) whose narrator, Andy Nichol (voiced by an uncredited actor who sounds like Greg Kinnear), looks back on his middle-school experience. His beloved teacher, Mr. Simon (Mr. Harris), is first seen reading to a class from Mark Twain’s “Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc.” This choice of literature sets him up as a martyrlike figure.
Later in the movie, when a bully retaliates against Mr. Simon’s discipline by spreading unfounded rumors about his sexuality, the teacher, a widower, refuses out of principle to deny the rumors. At this point you wonder if “That’s What I Am” will turn into a movie about a vicious, small-town witch hunt, but it is too timid to go there. It is more interested in the buildup to Andy’s first kiss with Mary Clear (Mia Rose Frampton), a kindhearted, more experienced classmate.
The movie’s depiction of the savage pecking order of school is mild; the children, obsessed with “cooties,” seem naïve even by 1965 standards. The principal outcast, Stanley (Alexander Walters), a k a Big G (for the ginger hue of his hair), is a tall, gawky boy with big ears who comports himself with unshakable dignity when faced with peer-group persecution. The 12-year-old Andy (Chase Ellison) learns to respect Big G after Mr. Simon assigns them to collaborate on a project.
Because “That’s What I Am” is a production of WWE Studios, it slips in a wrestling star, Randy Orton, as the lying bully’s rabidly homophobic father.
At heart “That’s What I Am” is really a gentle, earnest illustration of a slogan that Mr. Simon submits in a contest to come up with a solution to world peace in 25 words or less. His entry, which he scrawls on the blackboard, reads “Human dignity + compassion = peace.” It wins him a flashy car.
“That’s What I Am” is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested). Its cursory discussion of homosexuality may offend certain viewers.THAT’S WHAT I AM
Written and directed by Mike Pavone; director of photography, Kenneth Zunder; edited by Marc Pollon; music by James Raymond; production design by Raymond Pumilia; costumes by Claire Breaux; produced by Denise Chamian; released by Samuel Goldwyn Films and WWE Studios. At the Cinema Village, 22 East 12th Street, Greenwich Village. Running time: 1 hour 40 minutes.
WITH: Ed Harris (Mr. Simon), Chase Ellison (Andy Nichol), Molly Parker (Sherri), Daniel Roebuck (Jim), Randy Orton (Ed Freel), Daniel Yelsky (Norman), Alexander Walters (Big G), Mia Rose Frampton (Mary Clear) and Amy Madigan (Principal Kelner).
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Teachers worried as girls go top of the class for cyber-bullying
http://www.independent.co.ukTeachers will today call for an investigation into rising levels of poor behaviour among girls in the
classroom. The girls, they argue, are more likely to resort to cyber-bullying – the form of bullying utilising the internet and mobile phones that is worrying school leaders.
A survey by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) reveals that half the teachers believed girls' behaviour had got worse during the past two years. One in five thought it was now more challenging than boys.
Teachers interviewed for the survey accused girls of being "sneakier" than boys in the way they misbehaved.They were also more adept at using modern social media such as Facebook to bully their fellow pupils.
The survey of 859 teachers in both primary and secondary schools and further education colleges said girls' misbehaviour centred around isolating fellow pupils from a friendship group, spreading rumours and making snide comments.
"Girls spread rumours and fallouts last a long time," a 34-year-old teacher from Reading told researchers. "Boys tend to sort it out fairly quickly."
Another teacher drew attention to a rise in the use of social media to bully pupils. "There is a lot of cyber bullying particularly via MSN and Facebook – this is mainly girls," said the teacher, who is a member of the senior management team of an English secondary school.
The finding follows a one-day strike by teachers at a high school in Lancashire – Darwen High School – earlier this month over pupil behaviour.
Teachers complained that pupils were making videos and taking photographs in class with their smartphones and then posting them on websites such as YouTube.
The teachers were particularly unhappy that senior management did not back them up when they confiscated pupils' phones.
Today's motion at the ATL conference calls for more support for teachers in instilling discipline.
One teacher from Weston-super-Mare told researchers that girls were also becoming more violent. "Girls are definitely getting more violent with gangs of girls in school who are getting worse than gangs of boys,"she said.
However, a primary school teacher from Bedfordshire added: "Boys are generally more physical and their behaviour is more noticeable.
"Girls are often sneakier about misbehaving, they often say nasty things which end up disrupting the lesson just as much as the boys as other children get upset and can't focus on their work."
The teacher added. "They [the girls] are usually the ones who refuse to comply with instructions."
The feeling was, though – despite rising levels of aggressive behaviour among girls – that boys were still more likely to show physical aggression. "Staff get ground down daily by the chatting and messing around, which disrupts lessons for other pupils and takes the pleasure out of teaching," said Mary Bousted, general secretary of ATL.
"Even more worrying is the physical aggression – most often among boys but also among some girls – which puts other pupils and staff at risk."
The union's annual conference in Liverpool will today hear calls to carry out an investigation into the number of girls being excluded from school. Delegates will be told it is an increasing problem.
Friday, April 22, 2011
Demi Lovato: "I Was Bullied Because I Was Fat"
http://www.usmagazine.com
Demi Lovato continues to open up about the "emotional issues" that landed her in rehab last November.
VIDEO: Demi opens up about the "darkest time" of her life
In an interview with ABC's Robin Roberts, the 18-year-old singer-actress said childhood bullying contributed to her eating disorder.
"I literally didn't know why they were being so mean to me," she said of her childhood tormentors. "And when I would ask them why, they would just say, 'Well, you're fat.' I was bullied because I was fat. And then a few months later I developed an eating disorder, and that's kind of what I've been dealing with every since."
Lovato was "compulsively overeating when [she] was 8 years old," and said for the past 10 years, she's "had a really unhealthy relationship with food."The star addressed one of her lowest points: when she physically struck Alex Welch, one of her backup dancers, in November 2010. (After the incident, Lovato pulled out of the Camp Rock 2 Tour with the Jonas Brothers and checked into rehab.)
"I take 100 percent full responsibility for that. I feel horrible. [She] was my friend," she said. Lovato's behavior caused her family and management team to hold an intervention. "They sat me down and said, 'You can't live like this.' And the only way that you're going to get the help that you need is to go in-patient to a treatment center. And that's exactly what I did."Photo credit: Jordan Strauss Wireimage.com
Monday, April 18, 2011
Teens rally against bullying
http://www.wcsh6.com
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- A group of teenagers, educators, advocates and lawmakers took a stand against bullying Saturday.Friday was the National Day of Silence, when teens across the country took an oath of silence to honor their fellow students who are bullied because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. The next day, they broke that silence with an anti-bullying rally in Monument Square.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Girl Talk
Patrik Jonsson for The Christian Science Monitor
Once a week, the middle-schoolers at the private Atlanta Girls School go to a unique homeroom session where chatter trumps study.
The get-together is Girl Talk, part of a nonprofit movement where teens besieged daily by the trappings of consumer culture, high-tech gossip gizmos, and "mean girl" mentalities talk to older girls about how to get beyond what seems to them to be a life-and-death drama buzzing around them.
"We mainly talk about cliques and how to deal with mean people," says Jessica Johnson, who joined the Girl Talk program as a middle-schooler and is now one of the leaders at the school. "It's so much better that we talk to them because we're people they can relate to, and they say, 'Oh, you're not centuries older than me; you understand cyberbullying and Facebook.' "
The chat session at the school is one incarnation of a national peer-to-peer mentoring program led by a 23-year-old from Atlanta, Haley Kilpatrick. She has turned a high school revelation and $13,000 of her own cash into a groundbreaking nonprofit group that now reaches 34,000 girls in 43 states and four countries.
The program aims to foster leadership qualities among high school girls at the same time they wield a positive influence on younger, middle school girls.
News reports of the sometimes tragic outcomes of cyberbullying have reinforced the need for answers. Some girls (and boys) live a lonely and unhappy existence in middle school, between the safety of childhood and the freedom of adulthood.
That dynamic became all too clear to Ms. Kilpatrick at age 15, when she was teased and bullied after moving from a public school to the tony Deerfield-Windsor School in Albany, Ga. She started Girl Talk at Deerfield-Windsor in 2002 after watching her younger sister go through many of the same vexations she had faced.
"For middle school girls, everything is an immediate crisis," Kilpatrick says. "So my thought was, if we could help these girls find a meaning and a purpose in middle school, then maybe they wouldn't make bad choices later on."
Since then, Girl Talk has become one of the fastest-growing nonprofits in the country. Girl Talk has received coverage in CosmoGIRL!, Glamour, and Self magazines, and Kilpatrick has appeared on national morning TV shows.
In 2007, Kilpatrick channeled her sense of mission – and, her friends say, her prodigious multitasking skills – into making Girl Talk a full-time nonprofit effort.
Along the way, she turned down corporate sponsorships from clothing and cosmetic firms. If Girl Talk had accepted the sponsorships, she says, "I realized that we'd be sending a mixed message, as we're talking about body image to these girls."
Her stick-to-your-guns strategy paid off. Shortly after that, Atlanta investment fund manager Ron Bell met with Kilpatrick and put an envelope on the table: It had a donation check for $50,000, enough to kick-start a major expansion of Girl Talk.
Named in 2010 as one of Atlanta's "Power 30 Under 30," Kilpatrick – with her straight blond hair and high boots – looks every bit a prep school alumna.
But that image is deceiving, her friends say. She still spends enough time with girls to throw around teen phrases like "I love your guts" that befuddle fellow adults.
"Haley was born to help others, and she devotes her entire life to helping others, not for the credit, not for money, clearly, but because it is all that is acceptable to her," says Kara Friedman, a middle school adviser at Holy Innocents Episcopal School in north Atlanta.
Girl Talk succeeds, Kilpatrick says, by giving younger girls a chance to hang out with their idols a few grades ahead of them. And because it's free. Curriculum, promotion, and salary costs come to about $4 per girl, money raised by Kilpatrick and a small team of co-workers.
Girl Talk provides a curriculum of 100 lesson plans, but it is its approach – talking about a relevant topic each week while imposing a strict no-names, no-mean-talk policy – that tripled the size of the program at Holy Innocents, where about a third of the girls participate, Ms. Friedman says.
Research shows that mentors, even those who are just a few years older, can have a powerful impact on girls. Teenagers who have active mentors in their lives, for example, are 46 percent less likely to use drugs and 52 percent less likely to skip school, according to one recent study.
"[A]t this age peers become so much more important than parents, and I think that's probably why [Girl Talk] is successful," says Pat Wolfe, an expert on adolescent brain development in Napa, Calif.
"When you're moving from middle school to high school, you're going into a situation where you're not sure what the rules are: You're not sure whether you'll have friends, or if you look OK, or if you'll fit in," Ms. Wolfe says. "Anything you can do to help the girls feel less threatened" benefits them, she says.
That includes talking face to face, not just phone texting.
It's all about "shaping these young women into being the leaders of tomorrow, and being the women who will ultimately change the world," Kilpatrick says.
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Facts About Bullying
-bullying occurs in school playgrounds every 7 minutes and once every 25 minutes in class (Pepler et al., 1997).
-only one in four children report that teachers intervene in bullying situations, while seven in ten teachers believe they always intervene most bullying occurs close to adults.
-bullying is reduced in a school if the principal is committed to reducing bullying. -(Charach et al., 1995)
-85% of bullying episodes occur in the context of a peer group -(Atlas and Pepler, 1997, Craig and Pepler, 1997)
-83% of students indicate that watching bullying makes them feel uncomfortable. -(Pepler et al., 1997)
-bullying stops in less than 10 seconds, most of the time when peers intervene on behalf of the victim. -(Pepler et al., 1997)
-by age 24, 60 percent of identified bullies have a criminal conviction. Young children who were labeled by their peers as bullies required more support form adults from government agencies, had more court convictions, more alcoholism, more anti-social personality disorders and used more mental health services.
bullying.org
-only one in four children report that teachers intervene in bullying situations, while seven in ten teachers believe they always intervene most bullying occurs close to adults.
-bullying is reduced in a school if the principal is committed to reducing bullying. -(Charach et al., 1995)
-85% of bullying episodes occur in the context of a peer group -(Atlas and Pepler, 1997, Craig and Pepler, 1997)
-83% of students indicate that watching bullying makes them feel uncomfortable. -(Pepler et al., 1997)
-bullying stops in less than 10 seconds, most of the time when peers intervene on behalf of the victim. -(Pepler et al., 1997)
-by age 24, 60 percent of identified bullies have a criminal conviction. Young children who were labeled by their peers as bullies required more support form adults from government agencies, had more court convictions, more alcoholism, more anti-social personality disorders and used more mental health services.
bullying.org
Friday, April 1, 2011
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