Comments on: Community Healing After School Bullying, Abuse and Suicides http://www.bloggernews.net/121090 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:27:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Ben Leichtling http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1420273 Ben Leichtling Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:06:32 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1420273 10-9-09 Hi Previous Employee, Unfortunately, bullies exist everywhere – always have and always will. Our task, often difficult, is to expose them and stop them. That takes organization, publicity and laws we can fall back on. Tactics must be designed for each specific situation, but we can be successful. Good luck, Ben 10-9-09
Hi Previous Employee,

Unfortunately, bullies exist everywhere – always have and always will.

Our task, often difficult, is to expose them and stop them. That takes organization, publicity and laws we can fall back on. Tactics must be designed for each specific situation, but we can be successful.

Good luck,
Ben

]]> By: Ben Leichtling http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1420271 Ben Leichtling Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:01:54 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1420271 Hi Karen, Sorry, but your experience is typical with principals who won’t deal with bullies. Notice, you got some results when you pushed on one of the three greatest fears of uncaring, lazy or cowardly principals – fear of publicity. Now you have to push harder. Make sure there’s a public record. Organize a core group of active parents. Most likely, your daughter was not the only child bullied by those two boys and by other bullies. See the chapter on school administrators in “Parenting Bully-Proof Kids.” Best wishes, Ben Hi Karen,

Sorry, but your experience is typical with principals who won’t deal with bullies.

Notice, you got some results when you pushed on one of the three greatest fears of uncaring, lazy or cowardly principals – fear of publicity.

Now you have to push harder. Make sure there’s a public record. Organize a core group of active parents. Most likely, your daughter was not the only child bullied by those two boys and by other bullies.

See the chapter on school administrators in “Parenting Bully-Proof Kids.”

Best wishes,
Ben

]]> By: previous employee http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1388146 previous employee Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:36:53 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1388146 How can someone who 'bullies' as a way of doing business, along with other SCSD administration, govern an entire school district without the empathy so deserving of the situation? Not to mention the students may not have parental involvement or role models. That quote is reserved for discipline problems and low test score responses (for those 'role models' on the top of the food chain - that didn't grow up here, or intend to stay once they have padded their pensions. How can someone who ‘bullies’ as a way of doing business, along with other SCSD administration, govern an entire school district without the empathy so deserving of the situation? Not to mention the students may not have parental involvement or role models. That quote is reserved for discipline problems and low test score responses (for those ‘role models’ on the top of the food chain - that didn’t grow up here, or intend to stay once they have padded their pensions.

]]> By: KarenCCC http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1268604 KarenCCC Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:09:04 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1268604 My daughter was bullied by two boys last year in Kindergarten. KINDERGARTEN! You want to know the measures they went through to stop it from continuing? Hmmm, they only told me about the bullying almost at the end of the school year and then when I tried to intervene they told me that I was not allowed to know the boy's last names nor their parent's names. So I had asked that the boys be removed from her class including art, PE, music and the others. They didn't do that, they took my daughter out of HER class. I went immediately to the principal and stated that there will be a letter in her file from now on stating that those boys will NOT be placed in any of her classes as long as she attends school there and if I find out that they even speak to my daughter again, I would be calling the police and making them aware of the situation. She assured me that the boys would not be near my daughter this year. GUESS WHAT??? Both of them were in her music and art classes this year, I called the police and it was then taken care of. My child is in their care for 8 hours a day, they need to be protected. And if this is happenening in Kindergarten and they are gettin away with it, what do they think is going to happen in the years to come? Those boys weren't disciplined by the school, they were "thinking" of expelling them. This irritates me. The school officials told me the same thing, "I am not there with those boys at their homes, they are learning it from somewhere." Ugh! But don't let me know the parent's names. "It's against our policy." My daughter had a good year this year, but I just know come next year I'll be dealing with it again. My daughter was bullied by two boys last year in Kindergarten. KINDERGARTEN! You want to know the measures they went through to stop it from continuing? Hmmm, they only told me about the bullying almost at the end of the school year and then when I tried to intervene they told me that I was not allowed to know the boy’s last names nor their parent’s names. So I had asked that the boys be removed from her class including art, PE, music and the others. They didn’t do that, they took my daughter out of HER class. I went immediately to the principal and stated that there will be a letter in her file from now on stating that those boys will NOT be placed in any of her classes as long as she attends school there and if I find out that they even speak to my daughter again, I would be calling the police and making them aware of the situation. She assured me that the boys would not be near my daughter this year. GUESS WHAT??? Both of them were in her music and art classes this year, I called the police and it was then taken care of. My child is in their care for 8 hours a day, they need to be protected. And if this is happenening in Kindergarten and they are gettin away with it, what do they think is going to happen in the years to come? Those boys weren’t disciplined by the school, they were “thinking” of expelling them. This irritates me. The school officials told me the same thing, “I am not there with those boys at their homes, they are learning it from somewhere.” Ugh! But don’t let me know the parent’s names. “It’s against our policy.” My daughter had a good year this year, but I just know come next year I’ll be dealing with it again.

]]> By: starviego http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1266470 starviego Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:25:27 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/121090#comment-1266470 I wonder if the school had had any 'suicide prevention' or 'death education' classes before the suicides. I wonder if the school had had any ’suicide prevention’ or ‘death education’ classes before the suicides.

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