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Teachers can be held legally accountable for bullying.
Bullying has garnered its fair share of headlines of late, and rightfully so. Hatable villains like Jennifer Petkovs make our skin crawl, although we don’t ever hear about them until long after they’ve wreaked havoc on their victims. Some of those victims, like Kathleen Edward, receive an outpouring of support. Others, like Tyler Clementi, take their lives before we’re able to tell them how much we care.
Sadly, bullying headlines are becoming more and more bizarre. Sylvia Mojica was recently arrested for arming her son with a knife and a bb gun (what, in case he couldn’t get close enough?) after he complained about getting pushed around at school. And then there’s Clint McCance, a member of an Arkansas school board, who allegedly expressed anti gay sentiments (which were littered with grammatical errors — just saying) on his Facebook page.
So it should come as no surprise to learn that the Department of Education is taking action via a formal communication addressed to teachers and administrators. Continue reading »
There are idiots and then there’s this guy! An upstate New York man who brought a loaded weapon into a school building, prompting a lockdown, says he never even thought about it.
Really? You didn’t think a gun on school premises was sort of a bad idea? Scratch that, reverse it. Continue reading »
Bullying is a recognized problem these days. Solutions, however, are difficult to identify and assess. There are still plenty of adults who could be helping, who instead roll their eyes and assume kids will be kids and bullying is in the natural order of human experience.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, however, has new policy statement coming out that will, for the first time, address bullying as a pediatric issue, advising doctors to Continue reading »
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