Comments on: Stop Bullying: Girls on Girls http://www.bloggernews.net/124714 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Sun, 27 May 2012 15:22:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Steve http://www.bloggernews.net/124714#comment-1755065 Steve Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:08:19 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/124714#comment-1755065 Its extremely important that the bully feels and understands that he/she shouldn't do what he/she is doing. Teachers have to be straight and intervene as soon as possible. However this isn't always possible. The main question is: what are the best measures to stop bullying if it's already happening? Of course there is no single solution that will do it. But some measures show positive effects, there is a great list in the book called "Handling Bullying", with tips for children, parents and teachers: http://www.handlingbullying.com Its extremely important that the bully feels and understands that he/she shouldn’t do what he/she is doing. Teachers have to be straight and intervene as soon as possible. However this isn’t always possible. The main question is: what are the best measures to stop bullying if it’s already happening? Of course there is no single solution that will do it. But some measures show positive effects, there is a great list in the book called “Handling Bullying”, with tips for children, parents and teachers:

http://www.handlingbullying.com

]]> By: VSEPR http://www.bloggernews.net/124714#comment-1676443 VSEPR Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:55:32 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/124714#comment-1676443 Well considered and articulated argument, Ben. Your characterization of many principals is apt and especially relevant in small, affluent towns where parental expectations are very high, where their children are beyond reproach, and where high school athletics domininated by an "in crowd" is the pride of the school and the community. It is much easier and job safeguarding to view bullying as "kids being kids" than to directly confront the culprits and their parents. Heck, these parents are probably friends of the school board members or lawyers. That is why a mandatory reporting requirement for observed physical or verbal acts of bullying/harassment with a ban on reprisals and immunity from civil liability is a first step in institutionally addressing this issue in the schools. If there also was an exemption from the some of the privacy requirements that allowed the schools to impose meaninful, publicy acknowledged discipline on confirmed culprits, this would have positive results on minimizing the occurances in school of bullying/harassment and towars ending a prevailing culture of bullying. Well considered and articulated argument, Ben. Your characterization of many principals is apt and especially relevant in small, affluent towns where parental expectations are very high, where their children are beyond reproach, and where high school athletics domininated by an “in crowd” is the pride of the school and the community. It is much easier and job safeguarding to view bullying as “kids being kids” than to directly confront the culprits and their parents. Heck, these parents are probably friends of the school board members or lawyers.

That is why a mandatory reporting requirement for observed physical or verbal acts of bullying/harassment with a ban on reprisals and immunity from civil liability is a first step in institutionally addressing this issue in the schools. If there also was an exemption from the some of the privacy requirements that allowed the schools to impose meaninful, publicy acknowledged discipline on confirmed culprits, this would have positive results on minimizing the occurances in school of bullying/harassment and towars ending a prevailing culture of bullying.

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