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19 Apr 09

From Teasing to Torment: School Climate in America - A National Report on School Bullying

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05 Apr 09

In Middle Schools, Empathy Becomes a Weapon Against Bullying - NYTimes.com

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teaching empathy can seem “artificial or hokey” to some students, but over time can foster a school culture that encourages learning over social distractions. “I don’t know if you can teach everybody to be empathetic,” she acknowledged, “but you can raise awareness.”
At Public School 114 in the South Bronx, where David A. Levine, author of “Teaching Empathy,” has been running workshops since 2006, the principal, Olivia Francis-Webber said that the number of fights had dropped to fewer than three a month — from one to three a week — and disciplinary referrals were down to about five a month from nearly 20.
Before, she said, teachers would “immediately admonish the child for bad behavior and send them to the office,” but since the empathy training began, they more often are “sitting down with students and finding out what’s wrong.”
Here in Scarsdale, the middle school has also seen an effect on behavior: Administrators have received three complaints about bullying or harassment on buses this year, compared with an average of two or three a month last year. Counselors have handed out fewer detentions for minor infractions such as chronic tardiness to class or running in the hallways.
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- Debbie Reegen, an insurance administrator and Dana’s mother, said she believes that empathy is lacking in many Scarsdale children and that the efforts should start in elementary school.
  “They should make the parents come as well,” she said. “I think there’s a sense of elitism, and a bit of arrogance, among the parents here.”
- On the bar mitzvah circuit, students have started handing out alternatives like water bottles and pajama pants. Jason Thurm, 13, collected more than 200 of the personalized sweatshirts from his friends and donated them to a church; for his own party in November, Jason did not have favors, and planned to donate the money his parents would have spent on them to a charity.

20 Nov 08

World Leaders Don't Shake Bush's Hand At G20 Summit (VIDEO)

Amazing. Totally snubbed.

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28 Apr 08

Social Work Today E-Zine - Clearer Antibullying Laws Needed to Address Children’s Health

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13 Nov 07

One-third of teens claim to experience "cyberbullying"

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This study is contradicted by another study this year. Where's the truth?
- cburell on 2007-11-13

Roughly a third of all teenagers who use the Internet have been subject to some form of cyberbullying, according to a new report by Pew Internet. The telephone survey was conducted on a representative sample of 935 teens in the US between the ages of 12 and 17 and revealed a number of observations about manipulative and bullying activity online. However, despite the fact that so many teens had experienced some level of cyberbullying, two-thirds of the group said that they believed more bullying occurred offline than on.
The level to which teens have been bullied online varies from "slightly annoying" to death threats. One in six (about 15 percent) told Pew that private communications—IM logs, e-mails, or text messages—had been posted publicly by someone else or forwarded around. One middle-schooler told a story about how an IM conversation she had participated in got changed in her disfavor, printed out, and passed around at school so that she "looked like a terrible person." Apparently this kind of online/offline bullying mix is preferred by ego-starved bullies everywhere.
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- About six percent of teens said that others had publicly posted embarrassing photos of them without their consent as well, with the users of popular social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook suffering from this phenomenon more than others (9 percent of social network users had photos posted of them, versus 2 percent of non-social networkers). Those who post photos of themselves are also more likely to have unauthorized photos of them posted, according to the survey.
- Another 13 percent reported that they had been the recipient of a threatening or aggressive e-mail, IM, or text message, and girls are more likely than boys to receive them (15 percent versus 10 percent). Older teens, those 15-17, were also more likely to receive threats than younger teens, with only 9 percent of younger teens receiving threats compared to 16 percent of the older crowd. The older group of girls received the most threats, at 19 percent.
- a large majority of survey respondents still said that more bullying occurred offline. Unsurprisingly, though, those who had not experienced cyberbullying were more likely to say that bullying was more common offline than online (71 percent) than those who had experienced some form of cyberbullying (57 percent).
  
  "Bullying has entered the digital age," writes Pew senior research analyst Amanda Lenhart. "The impulses behind it are the same, but the effect is magnified. In the past, the materials of bullying would have been whispered, shouted, or passed around. Now, with a few clicks, a photo, video, or a conversation can be shared with hundreds via e-mail or millions through a web site, online profile, or blog posting."