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Can You Really Teach A Kid To Become Bullyproof?

2012-05-30T17:09:44Z

NEW YORK -- Teaching kids to become "bullyproof" is all the rage. Books, videos and websites promise to show parents how to protect their kids from be...

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Teen Punished By School After Reporting Student Bullying Of Special Needs Girl

2012-05-28T18:44:08Z

Stormy Rich, an 18-year-old Florida student, says she was punished after reporting bullying of a special needs student on a school bus, and standing u...

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A Night To Remember: HuffPost Gay Voices Salutes Same-Sex Prom Couples

2012-05-27T09:00:00Z

For high school students nationwide, the prom is more than just the most exciting night of the year -- it's become a bonafide rite-of-passage.

How...

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Marlo Thomas: The Fight Against Bullying -- Kids Take Charge

2012-05-25T08:19:03Z

Adults often underestimate children's ability to grasp the heart of a concept -- or run with an idea of their own -- but we're wrong. They're a lot smarter and more take-charge than we think. We're seeing that ability take hold now with bullying.

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TRAGEDY: 7-year-old Found Dead In Suspected Suicide

2012-05-24T08:35:17Z

Detroit police responded to a tragic call from Pingree Street Wednesday afternoon. A 7-year-old boy had been found dead in what police are saying was ...

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Sanah Imran: Counteracting Bullying through Compliments

2012-05-22T09:20:17Z

A girl at my school started a "compliments" Facebook page, in which compliments that anyone submits about anyone else can be posted anonymously. In the first night, over 70 were posted!

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Rev. Romal J. Tune: Bullying Starts at Home

2012-05-21T09:45:07Z

Often, our public discourse regarding the need to end bullying centers around the assumption that children are only bullied at school. That assumption couldn't be further from the truth.

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Amy Weber: Into The Abyss: One Filmmaker's Journey Into The Bully Crisis

2012-05-18T16:05:00Z

This blog is my way to share with you the one project that I feel is the most important one of my life: The Bully Chronicles. The film will feature real teens, teachers, and parents. For the first time, the story will be told from the bully's perspective.

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Carolyn Laub: Why Zero Tolerance Is Not The Solution To School Bullying

2012-05-16T15:49:00Z

Many legislators and school-safety advocates have demanded "zero tolerance" for bullies. But as founder of Gay-Straight Alliance Network, a national organization that empowers students to create safer schools for LGBT youth, I can tell you there's a better way.

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Wayne Maines: Introducing Our Parents' Generation To Transgender Children Can Be Hard But Rewarding

2012-05-16T11:22:41Z

I waited for the old man to tell me I was nuts. He looked at me and said, "Maybe I am too old to change. Maybe your son and my grandson will be able to make things better."

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Daniel O'Donnell: Teaching Our Children Not To Follow Romney's Example

2012-05-13T02:44:00Z

Our schools must help children learn tolerance and respect for one another, so that no child leaves school with the fear that they will be attacked for their differences, and no child grows up believing it's OK to marginalize or discriminate against others.

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A.J. Walkley: Bullying in School and the LGBT Community

2012-05-11T10:33:00Z

The Darnell "Dynasty" Young case is just one example of LGBT students and their parents feeling the need to find a solution to bullying when a solution is not being offered by public school administrations. Situations like Darnell's are not uncommon.

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Warren J. Blumenfeld: Bullying And Suicide: Ending The Denial

2012-05-11T10:32:00Z

Bullying must not be seen as simply a "youth problem" but as resulting from larger societal issues. Institutional bullying and harassment do not exist within a vacuum but reflect and actually reproduce the messages and actions stemming from the social environment.

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Cesar Millan: 'Dirty Dog Boy' to Dog Whisperer: It Gets Better

2012-05-08T19:21:13Z

It doesn't matter what it is, bullies will find something different about you and try to make your life hard.

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David Groshoff: Time To Start A 'Stand Your Ground' Campaign? More Bull About Anti-Gay School Bullying, Hoosier-Style

2012-05-08T17:43:00Z

Based on my reading of the law, not only was Darnell's mother, Chelisa Grimes, right to provide her son with the means to defend himself against the initiation of force against her son by bullies, but Darnell was right to use that force to reasonably protect himself.

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Teen Hangs Herself After Months Of Bullying, 'Slut' Scrawled On Locker

2012-05-08T17:09:47Z

Rachel Ehmke, a 13-year-old seventh grader in Mantorville, Minn., died April 29 after hanging herself at her home. The months leading up to the traged...

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Mother Who Sent Son To School With Stun Gun Says She'd Do It Again

2012-05-07T16:40:00Z

Chelisa Grimes, mother of Darnell "Dynasty" Young -- the 17-year-old gay student who brought a stun gun his mother gave him to school to protect himse...

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Gay Student Faces Expulsion For Firing Stun Gun At Bullies

2012-05-02T16:20:00Z

Darnell "Dynasty" Young, a 17-year-old gay student at Arsenal Tech High School in Indianapolis, Ind., is facing possible expulsion after he fired a st...

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Etan Thomas: Are Some Teachers Enabling Bullies?

2012-05-01T16:06:46Z

How do we get teachers nowadays to feel a sense of responsibility that wouldn't allow them to turn a blind eye to vicious acts bullying?

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Student Sucker-Punched In The Face At School

2012-04-30T15:30:00Z

Cory Pingeton, an 18-year-old student at Franklin High School in Franklin, Mass., required medical attention after an unnamed suspect viciously attack...

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Signe Whitson: What Parents Can Do About Cyberbullying

2012-04-30T14:01:07Z

I remember with clarity the day my daughter "discovered" the internet.

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Teacher Placed On Leave After Father Wired Son To Record Abuse

2012-04-28T17:28:32Z

CHERRY HILL, N.J. -- A southern New Jersey teacher who oversees a classroom where a father says his autistic son was verbally abused by adults has bee...

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Stuart Chaifetz Update: Reassigned Teacher Hires Lawyer

2012-04-26T16:34:54Z

A YouTube video posted by Stuart Chaifetz revealing audio evidence of his 10-year-old son Akian's emotional abuse at the hands of his educators has re...

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Teen Victims Of Cyberbullying Fight Back In lawsuits

2012-04-26T23:50:50Z

ATLANTA — When a Georgia middle school student reported to police and school officials that she had been bullied on Facebook, they told her ther...

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Middle Schooler Seriously Injured In School Bullying, Undergoes Surgery

2012-04-26T10:40:31Z

A 14-year-old student from Longfellow Middle School in Enid, Okla., was left seriously injured and had to undergo surgery after an incident of bullyin...

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