Let's Take Bullying Seriously
We must understand that many bullies also are victims. Some children and teens that torment others are being mistreated themselves.
We must understand that many bullies also are victims. Some children and teens that torment others are being mistreated themselves.
Amy Swift | Posted 05.15.2008 | Living
Ladies Who Launch member Lisa Finan dives into the deep end on violence and lays down a good argument for bringing social skills into the curriculum, classroom and principles office.
Rep. Lois Capps | Posted 04.25.2008 | Home
Today is the 12th Annual National Day of Silence, an annual observation in which students across the country take a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT harassment faced by individuals in schools.
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.14.2008 | Living
One might assume that children would be prohibited from being thrown into a chain-link box and told to enact every school-yard bully's fantasy. You would be wrong. It is still legal in Missouri.
Jonathan Fast | Posted 04.07.2008 | Living
None of the behavior exhibited in the Wolfe story the should come as a surprise. We know that victims of bullying are often bullies themselves, and vice versa.
Jonathan Fast | Posted 04.03.2008 | Living
What makes Billy Wolfe's case unusual was not the frequency or brutality of the beatings, but the fact that Billy's parents decided to sue the parents of one of the bullies.
Michelle Renee | Posted 02.05.2008 | Living
Cyber bullying takes what used to be schoolyard insults, pushing, and shoving to a whole new, expansive, and very dangerous level.
Peter Clothier | Posted 01.11.2008 | Living
In a society where the fear of being considered insignificant is a constant threat to the fragile ego, we defend ourselves by shouting louder and more rudely than the next man or woman.
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Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.27.2008 | Living