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Schools Continue to Fight Bullying

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A new way of reporting a bully, threats or other violence is emerging in schools throughout the country. Just what is it? Schools are setting up special email accounts for students to write and send in reports of threats or bullies anonymously. Schools are also offering a hotline where students or concerned parents can call to report threats without giving their name. Everything is completely anonymous. What will this do for school safety? Or better yet, what do schools hope this will do to keep their school safe? Many schools that are implementing this bully/threat reporting system are hoping that … Continue reading →

Physical Bullying in Schools

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Bullying is often considered an act of physical aggression towards another student. As I have discussed in two of my previous blogs, bullying also can come in other forms, such as emotional and cyber bullying. Physical bullying is perhaps the most well known form of bullying and is often the type of bullying that boys choose to use. Did you know that physical bullying often starts to increase as students go from year to year in elementary school? Did you know that it often peaks during middle school and it often begins to slow down during high school? What is … Continue reading →

What Schools Should Be Doing About Bullies

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I mentioned in my blog yesterday about bullying and what parents should do at home if their child is a victim of a bully. Today, let’s talk about what the school should be doing to prevent bullying. To begin with, every school needs a bully-proof plan and every student needs to know exactly what is expected of them if bullying occurs or if a student decides to bully. This means a school-wide training. Yes, it seems like a chore, and yes your child really should be in class learning academic skills. Unfortunately, in today’s world, bullying is a huge issue … Continue reading →

Study Finds About Half of All Teens With Autism Are Bullied

This may not be a surprise to parents of children who have an autism spectrum disorder. A study has found that almost half of all teenagers who have autism are bullied at school. Researchers conclude that this indicates that schools are not doing enough to appropriately include teens with autism into general education classes. A study led by Paul R. Sterzing, the lead author from the University of California, Berkley, used records from a 2001 survey of 920 parents who had teenagers with an autism spectrum disorder. The researchers found that 46% of parents said that their autistic teenagers were … Continue reading →

Does “Bully Education” Really Work?

Schools all across the country are making concerted efforts to deal with the very real issue of bulling. But are these efforts having an impact? Is your child less likely to be bullied today than he might have been five years ago? The experts are divided on the issue, and some recent research suggests that the answer could be no. Earlier this week, we were driving by a local school. There, right next to the playground was a huge sign declaring the area to be a “No Bully Zone.” I’m not sure why the sign was there. Was it to … Continue reading →

Are Parents To Blame For School Bullying?

Bad parenting is to blame for school bullying. At least in Japan, according to a recent Yomiuri Shimbun survey. It seems most of those surveyed believe bullying is caused by parents failing to teach their children social rules. Respondents were asked to select from eight choices what major factors they believed was the cause of bullying. Bad parenting received 65%, 55% cited children’s lack of empathy for others, 52% said parents not being aware of the suffering of their kids, 48% blamed insufficient capabilities of the teachers and 45% blamed the schools for evading their responsibility by concealing bullying cases. … Continue reading →

Social Exclusion at School: Emotional Bullying

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When your child is bullied at school, there are things that can be done. Please see a previous blog of mine about what schools should be doing about bullying. I have decided to take my focus on bullying a bit further and discuss the specific types of bullying taking place in our schools today. Yesterday I discussed cyber bullying, or bullying that happens over the Internet. Today I am going to discuss in detail about social exclusion at school, this is commonly referred to as emotional bullying. This type of bullying, more common with girl’s than with boys, is really … Continue reading →

Protect your Special Needs Child from Bullying

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Once upon a time, there was a bully. He was rough. He was tough. He was mean. He was obscene. He was large, and in charge. He thought he was cool, and he ruled the school. Although this is the image that comes to mind when we think of “bullies,” in reality, bullying takes many forms. In most cases, bullies look like any ordinary student at your child’s school. And they often strike in groups, where several kids encourage and feed off each other. A bully doesn’t wear a sign on his chest. And many of them (rather vicious at … Continue reading →