tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335075833178967032024-03-13T08:23:35.985-07:00The Prevention Team BlogThe Prevention Team is a company designed at building Confidence and Integrity in our School system to address one of our country's biggest issues in the school system today, Bullies.
Our 1 hour program is approved by multiple schools across the nation and will leave your kids with great motivation and a real "Bullies are not cool Attitude."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-7707085126356051272012-07-13T06:53:00.000-07:002012-07-13T06:53:47.551-07:00Workplace Bullying<br />
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When people think of bullying it is mostly thought of as something that happens to our youth. However, bullying at the work
place is a very real thing and it happens every day in businesses around the
world. In fact, in a 2010 survey conducted by the <a href="http://www.workplacebullying.org/wbiresearch/2010-wbi-national-survey/" target="_blank">Workplace Bullying Institute</a>, they estimated that 35% of workers experience bullying first hand. The similarities with the school yard are uncanny too. Workplace bullying does not discriminate when it comes to gender or race, and with the majority of the bullying being same gender harassment it's like high school all over again. The main difference between the two, however, is that in the workplace it could be as subtle and as clandestine as sabotaging another person's work or as extreme as in your face violence. It can also either take place between a boss and
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Workplace bullying is the ultimate undermining to legitimate
business practices. It has the ability
to damage the bottom line, which is the sole purpose of any business. If a co-worker is harassing you and stopping
you from doing your job properly wouldn’t it be in the best interest of your
boss to stop such behavior? You bet it would be, especially if that person has
their own boss to answer to. Working in a
professional environment is all about accountability. Part of being a boss or manager is making
sure productivity stays at a high and that all interpersonal issues get
resolved. However, many of the reasons why a person never comes forward when being bullied at the office is the same reason why a child will not tell their peers. The fear of repercussions from the bully are a scary thought when you job and income are on the line. There are very few of us out there that can jeopardize their employment by accusing another of harassment.</div>
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You have to remember though that bullying takes place for the same reasons at
both the schoolyard and workplace.
Bullies are driven by deep-seated insecurities that can arise at
opportune times. Whether to make
themselves feel better or to further drive their ambitions by targeting the
best employees, bulling can take the form of many different types. They can be really aggressive or extremely secretive of their behavior towards their targets. Pushing you as you get in the elevator may
get you heated and give you the ability to focus your annoyance on someone, but
secretly eating your lunch will probably have a bigger effect on you on the
whole. It’s the bullies we don’t see
in the workplace that sometimes have the longest lasting effects. A loss of money and lack of energy from malnutrition will definitely set you back farther in your career than a shove.</div>
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Larger corporate jobs will have human resource departments
that specialize in deterring and stopping work place bullying, but they are not
always aware that such behavior even exists.
If you do work for such a corporation it would be best to alert your
human resources representative in a private manner to discuss your
concerns. They will most assuredly
reprimand the bully if such behavior is occurring due to the corporate
mentality of steering clear of law suits and protecting themselves. However, understand
that there are no laws in this country that are in place to stop such
behavior. If nothing is done and you say
attain a lawyer, there is no guarantee that it is something that can be proven
in a court of law. You will also run the
risk of ostracizing yourself from your other co-workers if such claims are not
witnessed by others. I don't know of many companies that like to hire employees with what they might see as frivolous lawsuits against past employers either. Of course it is wrong, but that is why you have to be very very careful how you proceed in the world of adult workplace bullying.</div>
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The bottom line is that you will find bullying no matter where you go, and no matter how old you are. It is up to us, the individual, to help put a stop to bullying when it rears its ugly head. Ignoring it will not make it go away, and running from it will sometimes only make it worse by feeding the bully. </div>
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I’m sure everyone by now has seen the video that has been
posted online about a 68 year woman named <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/21/us/new-york-bullied-bus-monitor/index.html?hpt=hp_c1" target="_blank">Karen Klein</a> who was <a href="http://www.thepreventionteam.com/" target="_blank">bullied</a> by a pack
of middle schoolers. Their insults are
so brutal it brought the poor woman to tears.<br />
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Little did one of the kids know that when he commented that
she does not have family because "they all killed themselves because they
didn't want to be near you” that her oldest son took his own life 10 years
ago. This is the ignorance of bullying
at its best, and I can guarantee it will be something that kid will regret
saying for the rest of his life. </div>
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I myself had to ride the middle school bus when I was that
age and I don’t remember having the need for bus monitors. I guess the times have changed. Sure there was bullying back then, but I
remember a time where we respected our elders.
Sure we might have made fun of the bus driver, but never to the point where
you would drive them to tears. Don’t any
of these kids have grandparents or common sense? I understand the needing to fit in, but
respect is something you teach at home.
I guarantee not one of those kids would let anyone talk to their
grandmother that way. Yet there they are
ganging up on her like a pack of wolves on an injured lamb. I know I must sound like the crotchety old
man waving his fist in the air, but there has to be a line drawn in the
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Kudos goes out to the kid who recorded and posted the video
online for others to see. It is
individuals like that who help the world see how this bullying trend has to
stop. That person should get an award
because you very well know that they had to take heat from other bullies on the
bus and at school for being a “snitch”.
It definitely took a lot of courage to come forward. I’m sure the last thing that whistle blower needed was
to have the profanity laced bullying directed at them instead.</div>
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The police department that is handling the matter is
treating it as a harassment case and not a crime. I can understand the reasons why, and the
woman in question just wanted an apology.
Well as of today she has gotten those apologies, and then some. There was an <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein" target="_blank">online petition</a> started to send
Karen Klein on a vacation and that has raised over 500,000 dollars! It is a shining example of human kindness, and
one that I hope will be passed along to others. I look forward to the future news reports of Karen Klein taking her whole family on a nice vacation and getting to hear about some of those amazing adventures.<br />
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Hopefully, the kids in question learned their lesson and they did not just give her empty apologies. Only time will tell if they continue their ways, but at least the public was notified that such behavior was going on. Bullying like this can only be helped if people become aware that it is taking place, and can only be rectified if we continue to care. For those of us out there that are still being bullied, stay strong. And for those that are witnesses to such behavior take a lesson from this and remember that it is okay to stand up for others. After all, if Karen Klein was your grandmother, wouldn't you do the same? </div>
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<a href="http://www.thepreventionteam.com/" target="_blank">Bullying</a> has become an American
epidemic as of late. With the advent of
social media, not only has it become easier to pick on someone, but it has
become more visible to the public in general.
Even though the technology has progressed the speed and ways someone can
bully, the reasons have remained the same.
Bullying isn’t blind, but it is most definitely ignorant. Underlying factors to why a person is bullied
can still be attributed to looks, speech, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, social beliefs, or just simply a way to show off and prove dominance. Just because it takes place in social media does not change the "whys". </div>
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an opening to why a young person would make fun of him, but what they wouldn’t
realize is those scars might be from his military career and he got those from
protecting our rights. Those same rights
that are being abused by a bully making fun of him. This ignorance can be passed along to a
young pregnant girl. Sure
she makes for an easy target for a pack of juveniles, especially because of
shows like 16 and Pregnant on MTV, but little would they know she might be
pregnant because of an unfortunate rape.
It is this very ignorance of facts that drive most bullies down their
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However, when we speak of social
media bullying this can be a direct effect on how a person acts or speaks on
camera or on their Facebook page. It’s a
general consensus that people say and do stupid things all the time. But never before in human history has the stupid things we
say and do become permanent on a social platform. Many times these are not even self-inflicting screw ups. What if a young kid slips and falls walking
down the hallway at school and someone happens to catch it on camera? It might
become viral on their school network, and yes, it will be embarrassing to all
the kids that person sees on a daily basis, but imagine if you were that person and
it goes viral on YouTube. I’ve read the
comments people post on there and they are brutal. And the fact that it is anonymous makes it
even worse. Up until the last decade or so bullying was a face to face
problem. Now anyone from anywhere in the
world has the ability to throw racial and sexual slurs to anyone that is on a
social network. All you need for that is
an email address, and you can acquire a new one of those very easily from any number of internet providers. Unfortunately, it is like the Wild West out
there. Except this time there are no Wyatt Earps to help corral the bad guys
and make sure justice is served. And
sure posts can be removed, but usually only after the damage is done. It is not just the typical bullies either. There are kids out there that are usually the ones being bullied in life that find a release in becoming bullies online. Anger that is directed at those who otherwise they could not make fun of are now the focus of their rage. </div>
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to all the state of the art bullying, it would be that cries for help can no
longer go unnoticed. For ignoring them
usually comes with huge penalties. It
seems like every day in the news young children and adults everywhere are committing
suicide that can be linked back to bullying of some kind. And usually you can find their previous cries for help on their social network accounts. With our growing knowledge of these avenues of interaction we are learning to look for early signs of severe depression and misconduct. Prior to the age of technology we wouldn't be able to spot these troubled individuals before it was too late.</div>
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So who are these new sheriffs that are going to stop this <a href="http://www.thepreventionteam.com/" target="_blank">cyber-bulling</a>
from taking place? It's not going to come down to a single person. It is going to take a collective effort from all of us who frequent these sites to patrol them for offenders. But even before that it starts at home. It starts with what we teach our children. How they interact with their siblings and peers, and especially how they respond to criticism. Because one thing we will not be short of in our internet lives is criticism. This isn't a place were people will be polite to you if they do not like something about you, or about your taste or distaste for something. We are going to have to teach our future generations that with every effort of positivity you put into something there is more than likely going to be an equal effort of negativity being pushed back at you. It is how you handle these potential bullies that will make or break you and them. Take away a bullies need for superiority and you take away their power. Bullies without that power are not bullies at all, they become sad and desperate people that hopefully change their ways of social interaction.<br />
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The awareness the media has for bullying these days is at an all time high, but we need to make sure it continues until ultimately it is abolished. However, we do have to be careful not to eventually cross the line and become a nation and world that stands against our deepest values. The ability to talk freely must always thrive, but it is in our own natures and our own educations and social lives that we have to turn the Wild West of the internet into the promised land of the New American Frontier.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Children with low-self confidence are not only <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">bully magnets.</a> Low self-confidence translates into lower earnings once bullying victims become adults. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">This means that even if you grew up with wealthy parents, you're more likely to earn more money if you have high self-esteem than if you have<a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/"> low self-confidence </a>(and wealthy parents). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">The financial status and income of your parents can help you earn money in the short term, but your self-confidence and self-esteem translates to</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;"> long-term wealth and earnings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Professor Judge found that self-esteem makes more impact if your parents have professional occupations or backgrounds. People from affluent families earn $28,000 more per year if they're confident, as compared to those who have wealthy parents but have <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">low self-esteem</a>. Those from less advantaged families only earn $7,000 more if they have high self-esteem than those who have lower self-confidence.</span></div>
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<li style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">Bounce back easier after failure.</a></span></li>
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<li style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Make <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">less self-destructive choices</a>.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Are more likely to ask for help or seek support.</span></li>
<li style="line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Strongly believe in yourself.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One way to <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">build a positive self-concept</a> is to succeed at slightly difficult things – and learn to bounce back from failures. Try setting small challenges at which you're likely to taste success, such as making conversation with a stranger at a party or speaking up at a meeting at work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px;">Just about every person has found themselves the </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">victim of name calling</a> at least once in their lives.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Find out few tested comebacks from bullystoppers.com, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">first free bully reporting web site.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Comebacks are not for everyone!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comebacks can be helpful when
dealing with mean kids, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">however</span>, kids should practice comebacks with an adult. <span style="font-style: italic;">Comebacks don't <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">stop bullying</a>, BUT they can increase </span><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">confidence,</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>which can discourage bullies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Comebacks is not a return insult! Never
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The
key to comeback lines is to remain COOL and AVOID the temptation to trade name
calling or personal insults with the <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">bully or teaser</a>. A great
comeback line is brief and to the point and leaves the bully or teaser feeling
that they did not get to you! Don't forget to always look them in the eye
and keep cool - anger is a sign to them that what they are doing is
working. Try some of the following, however <span style="font-weight: bold;">always remember: if another student is threatening <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">physicalviolence</a> toward you, don't say anything to him or her</span> - do your
best to get away from the situation and to where a teacher or other adult is
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Perfect Comebacks:</span></b></span></div>
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"You
- You're good!"</div>
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"Very
good!."</div>
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"Ok,
I'm hurt."</div>
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"What?
Again?"</div>
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"Is
this your goal in life or something?"</div>
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"Not
getting tired of this?"</div>
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"This.......
again?"</div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z4KdzqeWSQw/T7Z5pUbCKWI/AAAAAAAAAKg/wNZa7RY3KV4/s1600/gf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-z4KdzqeWSQw/T7Z5pUbCKWI/AAAAAAAAAKg/wNZa7RY3KV4/s320/gf.jpg" width="320" /></a>"Thank
you!"</div>
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"Grow
up."</div>
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"Great
try."</div>
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"That
one hurt."</div>
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"Sticks
and stones."</div>
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"Mission
accomplished."</div>
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"You
are wasting my time."</div>
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"Funny.....
funny. Laugh....laugh."</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">"</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-style: italic;">And</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> with a smile
on his face...."</span></div>
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"You're
the KING"</div>
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What?
Are you talking to me?</div>
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"Blah
- blah"</div>
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"New
material?"</div>
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"The
real you can't be this mean."</div>
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"You used to be a good kid."<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a reason Lea Michele is so convincing as a <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">bullied teen</a> on the hit show 'Glee,' -- the star reveals she was the victim of bullying in her real life, too! The taunts were specifically hurtful when they came to Lea's original last name, "Sarfati." In fact, the teasing got so bad that Lea took it upon herself to change her surname altogether!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was deemed too <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">offensive to overweight children</a>. </span></div>
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Orlando, </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/florida"><span style="color: black;">Florida</span></a><span style="color: #333333;">, used obese cartoon villains called Snacker, Lead Bottom
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critics accused Disney of taking "the side of the bullies" by
reinforcing stereotypes of overweight children and stigmatising them for their
condition, prompting the entertainment giant to shutter the attraction for a
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through 6 who are obese are more likely to be <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">bullied</a> than their normal-weight
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started this study, I really suspected that we might find that the obesity or
overweight might not be the driving force," says the lead author of the
study, Julie Lumeng, M.D., a professor of pediatrics at the University of
Michigan, in Ann Arbor. "What we found is that it didn't matter. No matter
how good your social skills, if you were overweight or obese you were <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">more likely to be bullied</a>." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The study involved 821 US boys and girls 8 to 11 years old. In third grade, 17 percent of the children were obese and 15 percent were overweight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A quarter of the children reported <a href="http://the%20study%20involved%20821%20us%20boys%20and%20girls%208%20to%2011%20years%20old.%20in%20third%20grade%2C%2017%20percent%20of%20the%20children%20were%20obese%20and%2015%20percent%20were%20overweight.%20%20a%20quarter%20of%20the%20children%20reported%20being%20bullied%2C%20although%20their%20mothers%20said%20about%2045%20percent%20of%20them%20were%20bullied.%20%20according%20to%20the%20investigators%2C%20the%20odds%20of%20being%20bullied%20were%2063%20percent%20higher%20for%20an%20obese%20child%2C%20compared%20to%20a%20healthy-weight%20peer./">being bullied</a>, although their mothers said about 45 percent of them were bullied.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to the investigators, the odds of being bullied were 63 percent higher for an obese child, compared to a healthy-weight peer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can the <a href="http://www.thepreventionteam.com/">bullying</a> be considered a positive thing if it motivates a child to acquire good habits? See yourself:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a
year ago the 6th grader Mason Harvey weighed 206 pounds. Today he's 85 pounds
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harvey
says the reason he decided to lose weight was because he was <a href="http://the%20study%20involved%20821%20us%20boys%20and%20girls%208%20to%2011%20years%20old.%20in%20third%20grade%2C%2017%20percent%20of%20the%20children%20were%20obese%20and%2015%20percent%20were%20overweight.%20%20a%20quarter%20of%20the%20children%20reported%20being%20bullied%2C%20although%20their%20mothers%20said%20about%2045%20percent%20of%20them%20were%20bullied.%20%20according%20to%20the%20investigators%2C%20the%20odds%20of%20being%20bullied%20were%2063%20percent%20higher%20for%20an%20obese%20child%2C%20compared%20to%20a%20healthy-weight%20peer./">being bullied.</a>
Starting in the third grade, the other kids would call him names like
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Harvey was
fed up with the <a href="http://the%20study%20involved%20821%20us%20boys%20and%20girls%208%20to%2011%20years%20old.%20in%20third%20grade%2C%2017%20percent%20of%20the%20children%20were%20obese%20and%2015%20percent%20were%20overweight.%20%20a%20quarter%20of%20the%20children%20reported%20being%20bullied%2C%20although%20their%20mothers%20said%20about%2045%20percent%20of%20them%20were%20bullied.%20%20according%20to%20the%20investigators%2C%20the%20odds%20of%20being%20bullied%20were%2063%20percent%20higher%20for%20an%20obese%20child%2C%20compared%20to%20a%20healthy-weight%20peer./">bullying</a>. So he began to take small steps. He hit the gym,
stopped drinking soda pop, burgers and pizza.</span><br />
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eats carrots at school for snacks, with a bit of ranch dressing. He says he
can't believe he was 85 pounds heavier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Harvey
decided not to stop there, he insisted that his parents join him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"We're
not just sleeping in all day, laying around," explains Mike Harvey.
"We're getting up, we're moving and it's making us feel better."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His father
once weighed more than 324 pounds, now he's down to 298.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Obese Boys Are More Likely to Be Bullied</b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #212121; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">The researchers claim that boys more often experience overt<a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/"> bullying victimization</a> than girls.</span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="color: #212121; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;"> Gender differences are also reported in relational victimization before adolescence in the USA</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #212121; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #212121; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> Boys are more often victims of <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">physical bullying</a> if they are physically weaker,</span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #212121; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 10px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f8f8f8; color: #212121; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">while recent evidence also suggests that overweight and obese adolescent boys are more likely to be perpetrators of bullying than their average weight peers. </span></div>
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">Around babies tough kids smile, disruptive kids focus, shy kids open up. </b><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5em; text-align: left;">In the previous posts I mentioned that <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">bullying</a> is actually natural. Animals fight each other, the stronger species get to stay, while the weaker ones must die - an evolutionary law.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; text-align: left;">We humans are the part of the nature and it seems that we are also hardwired to be aggressive and selfish. Well, the <u>researchers from Princeton University found there is a biological reason for compassion.</u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brain
scans reveal that <b>when we contemplate violence done to others we activate the
same regions in our brains that fire up when mothers gaze at their children. </b>It
suggests that caring for strangers may be instinctual. When we <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">help others</a>,
areas of the brain associated with pleasure also light up. Research by
scientists Felix Warneken and Michael Tomasello indicates that toddlers as
young as 18 months behave altruistically. </span></div>
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important, we are beginning to understand how to nurture this biological
potential. It seems that it’s not only possible to make people kinder, it’s
possible to do it systematically at scale – at least with <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">school children</a>. </span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r9KR8XVFXGs/T6QnmI8z-9I/AAAAAAAAAH8/rJ3IdZsvl9s/s1600/baby.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="263" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r9KR8XVFXGs/T6QnmI8z-9I/AAAAAAAAAH8/rJ3IdZsvl9s/s320/baby.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That’s what one organization based in Toronto called Roots of Empathy has
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Roots of Empathy, a Toronto-based organization is doing incredible work in the hopes of <b><a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">reducing bullying worldwide</a>, by increasing empathy in schoolchildren</b>. </span></div>
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heart of the program are a neighbourhood infant and parent who visit the
classroom every three weeks over the school year. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A trained Roots of
Empathy Instructor <b>coaches students to observe the baby's development and
to label the baby's feelings. </b>In this experiential learning, the baby is the
"Teacher" and a lever, which the instructor uses to help children
identify and reflect on their own feelings and the feelings of others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This
"emotional literacy" taught in the program lays the foundation for
<a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">more safe and caring classrooms</a>, where children are the "Changers". </span></div>
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others (empathy) and are therefore less likely to physically, psychologically
and emotionally hurt each other through <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">bullying</a> and other cruelties.</span></span></div>
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Roots of Empathy program children learn <a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">how to challenge cruelty and injustice</a>. Messages of social inclusion and activities that are consensus
building contribute to a culture of caring that changes the tone of the
classroom. <b>The Instructor also visits before and after each family visit to
prepare and reinforce teachings using a specialized lesson plan for each visit.
</b>Research results from national and international evaluations of Roots of
Empathy indicate significant reductions in aggression and increases in
pro-social behavior."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So far our researchers have evaluated ROE’s impact on children </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">up to three years after program completion. Results show an </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">increase in social/emotional understanding and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_1866841366">pro-social </a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;"><a href="http://thepreventionteam.com/">behaviour</a> and a decrease in aggression compared to children </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">who do not participate. Children become more caring, helpful </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 23px;">and kind, and feel more accepted by their</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 23px;"> peers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>The program has gone into 13,000 classrooms</b>; when writer David Bornstein investigated, he said: “What I find most fascinating is how the baby actually changes the children’s behavior. Teachers have confirmed my impressions: tough kids smile, disruptive kids focus, shy kids open up. In a seventh grade class, I found 12-year-olds unabashedly singing nursery rhymes<u>.”</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So maybe babies are the answer. And since kids don’t get to experience babies at home anymore, I guess we need to bring babies to school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">The survey involved </span><span style="background-color: white;">about 1,000 mental health professionals and educators. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To the item, <em>"There is at least one person in my life that I get angry with fairly regularly," </em>57% answered Yes. Furthermore the academic bullying experts define anger as an act of bullying. So by getting angry, these same 57% are simultaneously being bullies. That's because when you get angry, you feel like a victim, but you look like a bully!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This means that children of mental health professionals and educators are three-and-a-half times more likely to be hit by a sibling at home than by a kid in school. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If experts at human relations do such a lousy job of protecting a couple of their own kids from each other at home, how in the world can they expect one teacher to protect thirty kids from each other in school? The answer is that they shouldn't expect it, but they do anyway.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anti-bully programs are based on the idea that bullying is a learned behavior. Just as kids have learned to be bullies, they now need to be taught how to be saints. Who, exactly, is going to teach our kids to be saints? You and I? Who do you think they could have learned bullying from in the first place?!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">A review of national and international research about bullying, that was published in August 2008, has found increasing evidence of a family connection with bullying. </span><a href="http://www.uc.edu/News/NR.aspx?ID=8699" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-image: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Elizabeth Sweeney</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">, a University of Cincinnati master's degree student in sociology presented her findings to the 103rd annual meeting of the Ameri</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">can Sociological Association.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">Sweeney reviewed research out of England, Germany, Norway, Japan, South Africa and the United States, and the majority of the research that she examined involved children between the ages of 9 and 16. She found that children raised by authoritarian parents - parents who are demanding, directive and unresponsive - are the most prone to act out bullying behavior.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;" /><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 21px;">"Children who experience hostility, abuse, physical discipline and other aggressive behaviors by their parents are more likely to model that behavior in their peer relationships," Sweeney wrote. "Children learn from their parents how to behave and interact with others. So if they're learning about aggression and angry words at home, they will tend to use these behaviors as coping mechanisms when they interact with their peers."</i>
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It's because they can't - never have, never will. Aristotle figured that out 2400 years ago.</div>
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Aristotle, the most influential thinker in the history of the Western world, advocated for good government and for providing maximum rights to people. Yet even he knew, "The one thing that no state or government can do, no matter how good it is, is to make its citizens morally virtuous." (Mortimer Adler, in "Aristotle for Everybody"; McMillan Publishing Company, 1978).</div>
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But this is precisely what the anti-bully movement is trying to do - guarantee our children a life surrounded by morally virtuous people. In other words - saints. Strange as this may sound, if you carefully inspect the academic definition of bullying, you'll realize that anyone who doesn't meet the criteria of sainthood is a "bully".</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Answer: Golden Rule</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;">Anti-bully activists have been trying to promote the Golden Rule.</span><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;"> However, the activists don't truly understand the Golden Rule. They believe it means, </span><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;">Don't act like a <span class="pt-basics-link">bully</span></span><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;">. They are really promoting reciprocity: We will be nice to you if you are nice to us, but if you bully us, we will have no tolerance for you and we will get you punished ("administered consequences," in current jargon). What the anti-bully activists don't realize is that the Golden Rule really means, </span><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;">Don't act like a victim! </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;">If I live by reciprocity, I have very little control of my relationships. If you are nice to me, I will be nice in return and we will be friends. However, if you are mean to me, I will be mean in return and we will be enemies. The GR puts </span><em style="background-color: #fafbfc;">me</em><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;"> in control. I will be nice to you </span><em style="background-color: #fafbfc;">even</em><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;"> when you are mean to me. Why? Because how long can you continue being mean to me when I am always nice to you? Before long, you are going to start being nice to me because you are biologically programmed to treat </span><em style="background-color: #fafbfc;">me</em><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;"> the way I treat </span><em style="background-color: #fafbfc;">you. </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;">f we were to replace our </span><em style="background-color: #fafbfc;">zero-tolerance-for-bullying</em><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;"> policies with this simple expression of the GR–</span><em style="background-color: #fafbfc;">Love your enemy (bully); be nice to people even when they are mean to you–</em><span style="background-color: #fafbfc;">bullying would disappear. And if we were to teach it on an international level, we might achieve peace on earth.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">You know how bad it feels when another person negatively judges you. It's awful. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">How does negative self-judgment make you feel? Each time you call yourself stupid, ugly, not good enough, etc you are taking positive energy from yourself. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you ever negatively judged yourself? Ever compare yourself to others? </span><br />
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People are less likely to be picked on and more likely to be listened to if they walk, sit, and act with awareness, calm, respect, and confidence. This means keeping one's head up, back straight, taking brisk steps, looking around, having a peaceful face and body, noticing what is happening around you, and moving away from people who might cause trouble.</div>
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Show your kid the differences between acting passive, aggressive and assertive in body language, tone of voice, and choice of words. Coach your child to walk across the floor, coaching her or him to be successful, by saying for example; "That's great!" "Now take bigger steps", "Look around you" "Straighten your back." etc.</div>
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that <a href="http://www.thepreventionteam.com/">cyber-bullying</a> could be just as deadly as any other type of bullying? When
most people think of a bully, they imagine a large overpowering figure with
dominating force. We do not think of 12-year-old girls who live in the suburbs.
Statistics show that teenage girls who live in the suburbs are one of the
largest demographics associated with cyber bullying. Individuals who live in
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15-year-old Howard County, Baltimore student recently committed suicide as a
result of the cyber bullying she experienced. Her death grabbed the attention
of celebrity figures around the nation, including Baltimore Ravens player, Ray
Rice, who will be discussing national bullying concerns at a town hall meeting.
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becoming far too common. They are being forced to their breaking points and
seeking suicide as a means of escape. This will continue to happen until all
types of bullying are treated as the crimes they truly are. Both schools and
law enforcement need to become more strict with the ways in which they deal with
acts of bullying. <a href="http://www.thepreventionteam.com/">Bullying</a> is a crime. The sooner we all accept this fact, the
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Zimmerman</b>, a Florida man who shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to death last
February, has recently created a website in which he defends his actions and
requests donations for legal support. The website’s title is conveniently, “The
Real George Zimmerman”. Zimmerman shows absolutely no remorse for his actions
and actually paints himself as the victim. An excerpt from
TheRealGeorgeZimmerman.com quotes Zimmerman as saying, “I have not received any
funds collected, intended to support my family and I through this trying,
tragic time.” He also says, “I was involved in a life altering event which led
me to become the subject of intense media coverage. As a result of the incident
and subsequent media coverage, I have been forced to leave my home, my school, my
employer, my family and ultimately, my entire life.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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took the life of a 17-year-old boy, yet he insists this is a tragic time in his
life? He explains how this experience has virtually ruined his life, having to
go into hiding after the incident. A mother and father have lost their son. A
child’s life has been taken from him. Yet, Zimmerman feels as though his life
has been ruined. Zimmerman never once mentions Trayvon Martin or his family.
This website is an extremely selfish attempt to gain the support of misguided
followers. Zimmerman supports his pleas by decorating his website with famous
quotes such as “The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do
good is my religion” by Thomas Paine and “The only thing necessary for the
triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing” by Edmund Burke.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Zimmerman is a criminal, yet he remains a free man. Justice must be served!
Visit Zimmerman’s website (The Real George Zimmerman) by visiting the following
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">http://therealgeorgezimmerman.com/Home_Page.php <o:p></o:p></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-21163012647414367832012-04-06T12:34:00.005-07:002012-04-06T12:38:18.734-07:00Bullying Is A Crime<a href="http://mormonman.edublogs.org/files/2011/03/Bullying-rc08vk.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 398px; height: 274px;" src="http://mormonman.edublogs.org/files/2011/03/Bullying-rc08vk.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Since losing his son to suicide nine years ago, John Halligan has devoted his life to spreading the <a href="http://www.thepreventionteam.com">anti-bullying</a> message. He believes that telling his son’s story will encourage bullies to stop what they are doing. Most bullies bully others because they think it is funny or simply because a person is different. Halligan believes that if they realized that their actions were actually driving people to take their own lives, bullies would be less likely to engage in bullying behavior. <div><br />John Halligan’s son, 13-year-old Ryan, was a bully victim for over two years. His tormentors made fun of him, physically assaulted him, and even spread untrue rumors that he was gay. John Halligan says that Ryan often hid in the bathroom to avoid his bullies. Ryan’s family never knew how emotionally damaged he was until they found his lifeless body in his bedroom. Ryan’s father never suspected his son was at any risk of committing suicide. It was not until he read the messages in Ryan’s AOL Instant Messenger Account that he understood what his son was experiencing. <div><br />John Halligan’s story is becoming far too common these days. More despondent kids are beginning to use suicide as a means of escaping their tormentors. We can no longer allow this to continue happening. Bullying has become a very serious issue over the last several years. Unless adults take a stand, kids like Ryan will continue being bullied. Both schools and law enforcement need to become stricter with the ways in which they discipline acts of bullying. Bullying is a crime and it should be treated as such! <br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-79593679257726507432012-03-22T11:04:00.007-07:002012-03-22T12:17:55.191-07:00A Fight For Justice<a href="http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/380747_345382218845451_119304228119919_1032667_1230266082_n.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 192px;" src="http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/380747_345382218845451_119304228119919_1032667_1230266082_n.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722784388964759826" /></a><br />It has been nearly a month since 17-year-old, Trayvon Martin was shot to death by neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman. Yet, still no action has been taken to pursue criminal charges against Zimmerman. Zimmerman claims that he was attacked by Trayvon and that he was acting in self-defense. The recent release of a phone call between Trayvon and his girlfriend (whose identity is being withheld) presented an entirely different scenario. Trayvon’s girlfriend reported that Trayvon was being followed and had actually began to run at one point before being confronted by Zimmerman. She said that a struggle ensued and the phone call ended. She later found out that Trayvon had been shot to death by his attacker. This news has struck a major controversy within the African American Community throughout the entire nation. This uproar has forced the FBI to investigate the case. While George Zimmerman remains free of any charges, the FBI is determining whether Zimmerman was acting within legal limits when he took Trayvon’s life.<br><br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tfNfeirKCzU/T2tqRk52NoI/AAAAAAAABls/hscrINN8oyI/s1600/031212-national-trayvon-martin.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 112px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-tfNfeirKCzU/T2tqRk52NoI/AAAAAAAABls/hscrINN8oyI/s200/031212-national-trayvon-martin.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722784601700972162" /></a><br /><br />The 911 calls made by Zimmerman before the shooting indicate that he was in fact told not to pursue or take any action. Zimmerman took the situation into his own hands and did the complete opposite. The result is a deceased 17-year-old boy. Zimmerman told the 911 operator that Trayvon looked suspicious, and seemed to be on drugs. When Trayvon’s body was found, all he had on him was a bag of skittles and a soda.<br /> <br><br />Trayvon’s parents are desperately trying to see to it that George Zimmerman is arrested and sent to prison for the murder of their son. They are not alone. It seems that they have the entire African American Community on their side and fighting for the same thing!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-1946198461894170082012-03-16T08:59:00.007-07:002012-03-16T09:07:03.142-07:00$1 million pay out for the bullying death of young teen Alex Wildman<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0TFY54vTeFQ/T2Nk5zFO4DI/AAAAAAAABlQ/XH4qT4coKIo/s1600/251872-alex-wildman.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0TFY54vTeFQ/T2Nk5zFO4DI/AAAAAAAABlQ/XH4qT4coKIo/s320/251872-alex-wildman.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5720526895818137650" /></a><br />With receiving only a payout of almost <span style="font-weight:bold;">$1 million</span>, the family of the bullied teen Alex Wildman said "they were relieved to be spared a lengthy and costly legal battle with the Department of Education."<br /><br />William and Justine Kelly, the step father and mother of the 14 year old Alex, were at the District Court in Sydney yesterday as a judge was told their case against the state had been settled out of court.<br /><br />Coincidentally, the decision coincided with yesterday's national day of action against bullying.<br /><br />Alex committed suicide in June 2008 after he was bullied by other students at Kadina High School, near Lismore on the far north coast.<br /><br />A coronial inquest in 2010 found that the teenager had been "driven" to take his own life as a result of the torment, which included bashings in the playground which were filmed and episodes of cyber bullying.<br /><br />Mr and Mrs Kelly sued the Department of Deucation for damages on behalf of two of their children, who have struggled to cope with Alex's death.<br /><br />Recommended Coverage<br /><br />Bullied boy tormented to death...A BULLIED teen who suffered injuries when he attempted suicide has died more than two years after his tormenters drove him to despair.<br />In the statement of claim filed with the court last year, the family claimed that the department had breached its duty of care, saying Kadina High School "owed Alex a duty to recognise that he was in need of assistance for being physically assaulted". "As as a result of the negligence of the (department), they have suffered injury, loss and damage," the claim said.<br /><br />Greg Walsh, the solicitor representing the family, told the District Court that the family had agreed to settle following discussions with lawyers for the Education Department.<br /><br />It's understood the payout is close to $1 million, and will be held in trust until the two children turn 18.<br /><br />Mr Walsh said if the case had proceeded to a hearing it would have "dragged out" and caused additional trauma to a family still grieving for their son because they would have been forced to prove "the causation" of his death in spite of the inquest findings.<br /><br />"The tragedy of Alex is there every day of their lives," Mr Walsh said.<br /><br />"The implications of litigation would have had very, very serious consequences for this family."<br /><br />Judge Dianne Truss noted the judgment was "approved" for the plaintiffs, adding that the payment would "be deferred" until the children turn 18.<br /><br />Outside court, Mrs Kelly said Alex "would have been proud" of the family's continuing fight to eliminate bullying in schools.<br /><br />"It means that we've been vindicated, it means that justice has been served," she said.<br /><br />"I think Alex would be proud because it's been a long, hard fight for everyone."<br /><br />This post was brought to you via: www.dailytelegraph.com and sponsored by <a href="http://411PainReviews.com">411 Pain</a> Reviews an affiliate of The Prevention Team.<br /><br />Like <a href="http://www.facebook.com/411PAIN"><span style="font-weight:bold;">411 Pain</span></a> on Facebook<br />Connect to <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/1--800--411--pain"><span style="font-weight:bold;">411 Pain</span></a> on LinkedIN<br />Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/411Pain"><span style="font-weight:bold;">411 Pain</span></a> on TwitterUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-84190154130996099192012-02-28T08:28:00.002-08:002012-02-28T08:31:38.779-08:00411 PAIN LAUNCHES A PROACTIVE ANTI BULLYING CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH FLORIDA SCHOOLS!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cfBfJ6tOv4Y/T00BOMBNX8I/AAAAAAAABjE/bM6hp9--xYU/s1600/20120208_092743.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cfBfJ6tOv4Y/T00BOMBNX8I/AAAAAAAABjE/bM6hp9--xYU/s320/20120208_092743.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714224845459120066" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">411 Pain,</span> a medical and lawyer referral service, has gone beyond the norm to make a difference in the South Florida community. In addition to their numerous donations to underprivileged Elementary schools through the 411 Pain Read and Rise Campaign, they have recently teamed up with The Prevention Team to tackle one of the biggest issues in our middle & high schools today, Bullies! “The Prevention Team specializes in bringing Pro Athletes to Schools Nationwide to stop bullying before it happens. As a father, I know how serious this epidemic has become & knew this would be a great program to bring to the South Florida school system,” says Dr. Robert Lewin, president of 411 Pain. <br /><br />As Title Sponsor of <span style="font-weight:bold;">The Prevention Team</span>, 411 Pain is launching their Anti Bullying Campaign beginning this month by funding ten school assemblies in Dade County and Broward County schools. Thanks to 411 Pain, students will have the tremendous opportunity to be educated by an NFL Player on what to do if they are a victim of being bullied, harassed on the internet, see others being bullied, and much more! Rhonda Beier, President of The Prevention Team states, “These assemblies are creating awareness, bringing solutions, and putting a STOP to bullying. We have had tremendous success so far and thanks to Dr. Robert Lewin and the 411 Pain Team, we will now be able to reac411 Pain 1-800-411-Pain 411-Pain Bullying CyberBullying The Prevention Team Anti-Bullying AntiBullyingh thousands of students and staff members throughout Florida.” <br /><br />For information on scheduling an assembly in your school, please visit www.thepreventionteam.com!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-47487880250508496092012-02-16T09:17:00.005-08:002012-02-16T09:48:07.210-08:00411 PAIN CONTRIBUTES THOUSANDS TO ELEMENTARY LITERACY CAMPAIGN<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mv0WuvyxcbU/Tz06nUi5biI/AAAAAAAABiM/Ve8ORktFW28/s1600/411PainPresentsCheck.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mv0WuvyxcbU/Tz06nUi5biI/AAAAAAAABiM/Ve8ORktFW28/s320/411PainPresentsCheck.jpg" border="0" alt="411 Pain Contributes Thousands Of Dollars To Children's Literacy Campaign"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709784349780045346" /></a><br />The excitement was in the air as Castle Hill Elementary students entered the <span style="font-weight:bold;">411 PAIN</span> Scholastic Read and Rise Assembly. An exhilarating speech from local radio DJ’s prepared the cheerful youth for the 411 Pain representatives, who gave an awesome read-a-long . As the kids cheered and applauded, 411 Pain presented a check to the sea of young smiling faces for over $2,900. A roar from the elementary school assembly hall echoed from door to door as the 411 Pain Team informed the students they will each receive a $5 gift certificate to allow them to purchase at least 1 book at the Scholastic book fair. This amazing event sent chills through the crowd. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JbciHXUxPbk/Tz063RKk4FI/AAAAAAAABiY/nTa--Lfd0pw/s1600/KidsListenTo411Pain.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JbciHXUxPbk/Tz063RKk4FI/AAAAAAAABiY/nTa--Lfd0pw/s200/KidsListenTo411Pain.jpg" border="0" alt="The Children gave many thanks to 411 Pain for their donations to the elementary"id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709784623750635602" /></a>"To see the smile and amazement in a child's face when they realize it is their own personal book, is the most rewarding part of this program" mentions Cici Seda, Director of 411 Pain Promotions. Young boys and girls rushed to find pens, pencils, crayons, markers and any writing utensils they had to begin creating special thank you cards for the team at 411 Pain. The sentiment resonated in each heart felt card from the students. Thank you Castle Hill Elementary for the warm reception and to all the students, we are happy to see you all were able to get your favorite books. <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iGJ6DrMgEPw/Tz07V-oNqyI/AAAAAAAABik/NB5JBUYsmco/s1600/ThankYou411Pain.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 188px; height: 200px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iGJ6DrMgEPw/Tz07V-oNqyI/AAAAAAAABik/NB5JBUYsmco/s200/ThankYou411Pain.jpg" border="0" alt="The kids wrote 411 Pain hundreds of thank you cards in great appreciate for what 411 Pain Did for their school."id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5709785151350614818" /></a> Dr. Robert Lewin, President of 411 Pain states, “On behalf of 411 Pain, Happy Reading and to Clear Channel and Scholastic, thank you for taking an interest in furthering the education of the young minds in South Florida, you all are doing a fantastic job. It is my pleasure to continue supporting the schools and students throughout our community.” <br /> <br />The Prevention Team | Anti-Bullying – Pro Children Safety & EducationUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-69137369278211575412012-01-30T11:01:00.000-08:002012-01-30T11:11:50.228-08:00Chattanooga area student wages campaign against bullying<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--w7i92fhCMA/TybqqHz0qZI/AAAAAAAABho/w56yfny-tuk/s1600/013012_WEB_b_Bullying_t618.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 216px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--w7i92fhCMA/TybqqHz0qZI/AAAAAAAABho/w56yfny-tuk/s320/013012_WEB_b_Bullying_t618.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5703503987483126162" /></a><br />Throughout elementary and middle school, Jasmine Scruggs witnessed the continual bullying of certain friends and classmates.<br /><br />It outraged her, but she said many of her peers and teachers responded with apathy.<br /><br />"It's just like a rite of passage -- like it's OK," said the 17-year-old Scruggs. "But it's not."<br /><br />Now a senior at Tyner Academy, she's focused much of this school year on the issue of bullying. For her required senior project, she's planning a February event to raise awareness and money to combat bullying in local schools.<br /><br />Scruggs said she's always been irked by bullying, but she decided to take action after reading a 2010 Times Free Press story about a local eighth-grader who wrote a letter to his principal and the superintendent, asking to switch schools because of ongoing bullying.<br /><br />"We really don't deserve that," Scruggs said. "School is a place for learning. You shouldn't have all those extra problems. You shouldn't be scared going to school. It's sad. It's disgusting."<br /><br />Scruggs' event, set for Feb. 25, will feature poetry, dance and songs by local youths that address bullying.<br /><br />"I want it to be so many people that it's overflowing," she said. "How could we sit around and act like this is OK?"<br /><br />All proceeds from the fundraiser will go to Students Taking a Right Stand, or STARS, a nonprofit that works closely with Hamilton County Schools to support a healthy school environment. The group also works with teachers and students on combating bullying.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">The Prevention Team</span> and <span style="font-weight:bold;">411 Pain</span> Support the youth making a positive impact on their community and we encourage everyone to help stop bullying today.<br /><br />To read the full article <a href="http://timesfreepress.com/news/2012/jan/30/student-wages-campaign-against-bullying/">CLICK HERE</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-56870794239154942572012-01-16T06:22:00.000-08:002012-01-16T06:28:35.162-08:00The effects of bullying last forever....<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlpII8q7ywE/TxQz60SHYcI/AAAAAAAABhY/ZnSJZdEvbec/s1600/383010-school-bullying.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 180px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KlpII8q7ywE/TxQz60SHYcI/AAAAAAAABhY/ZnSJZdEvbec/s320/383010-school-bullying.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5698236514090574274" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">I WAS bullied at school. This was the 1960s and it was seen then as part of growing up.</span><br /><br />You didn't dob or you'd be hammered behind the shelter sheds. You didn't tell your parents as they would simply say it was part of learning to be a man.<br /><br />To be a man, I joined the school cadets. It was here that I understood what institutionalised bullying was all about. If you wore a peaked cap and had pips on your shoulder epaulets, that sanctioned you to do exactly what you liked.<br /><br />I was humiliated and beaten. I lasted a year. I still have an aversion to seeing army uniforms.<br /><br />It was some comfort that when I left school and began training as a teacher that I realised that there was a raft of literature devoted to bullying. I was not alone. I read of Australia's legendary ballet dancer Robert Helpmann and how he was bullied unmercifully at school because he could dance.<br /><br />And I read with gut-turning revulsion the frank admission of the historian Manning Clark, how when he was a student at Melbourne Grammar, the terrors of the notorious long dorm were visited on him and he was subjected to what he described as the "theatre of cruelty".<br /><br />When I became a teacher I entered the classroom feeling for the broken and bereft, the small, the timid, the socially outcast, the dull, the nerdy kids and the students who were gay.<br /><br />The daily terror that gay boys felt of being discovered or even suspected is a lingering reality. It still continues today. If you are called a "fag", you will be a school leper.<br /><br />This is why the campaign against bullying of all kinds is long overdue.<br /><br />When I began teaching, computers were not commonplace. Cyber bullying was unknown, not to mention texting or sexting. It is hard to imagine a more pernicious and devastatingly insistent form of harassment. It only takes one word, one image.<br /><br />TPT: "Bullying is one of the worst forms of abuse that can be taken out on a young individual we must connect as a population; from parents to young adults to make positive strides in creating a bully free society!"<br /><br />To Read More Of The Featured Story: <a href="http://www.heraldsun.com.au/opinion/the-effects-of-bullying-last-forever/story-e6frfhqf-1226245799979">Click Here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-23795147428385378162011-12-27T07:33:00.000-08:002011-12-27T07:43:32.969-08:00Gay teen’s suicide spurs review of bullying policy<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zsiM8YqxJPY/TvnlhqDUhLI/AAAAAAAABhI/N5yU5w0mxm0/s1600/rogers.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 133px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zsiM8YqxJPY/TvnlhqDUhLI/AAAAAAAABhI/N5yU5w0mxm0/s200/rogers.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5690831970545992882" /></a>The time to act is now; The Prevention Team is in the process of providing our specialized anti-bullying techniques across the nation and we find ourselves pushing to make it to<br />ASHLAND CITY, Tenn. where in the weeks since an openly gay teenager killed himself, the reaction in this Tennessee town has included petition drives to examine the anti-bullying policy in the local schools and a tense public meeting to discuss suicide prevention efforts.<br /><br />Jacob Rogers shot himself on Dec. 7.<br /><br />He wrote about family in the notes he left behind before his death, but there was no mention of bullying, authorities said.<br /><br />However, a friend told The Tennessean that Rogers was an almost daily target for name-calling at Cheatham County Central High School.<br /><br />"It was like every day, every class," said 18-year-old Kaelynn Mooningham.<br /><br />Friends and family question whether the school did enough to protect Rogers, and if the district’s anti-bullying policy is too lenient for students who do harm...<a href="http://www.southfloridagaynews.com/news/national-news/5262-gay-teens-suicide-spurs-review-of-bullying-policy.html">Read Full Story</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-13800185649762927382011-12-15T12:36:00.000-08:002011-12-15T12:47:09.539-08:00Parents Are Suing School Districts For The Bullying Outbreaks!<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hwuoJ9NGFAM/TupcR8wPsJI/AAAAAAAABg4/hYP68Re-8MY/s1600/bullyad.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 130px; height: 200px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hwuoJ9NGFAM/TupcR8wPsJI/AAAAAAAABg4/hYP68Re-8MY/s200/bullyad.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5686458942944686226" /></a><br />As the days turn to weeks and the weeks turn to months; bullying is becoming worse by the second and concerned parents are now taking the power out of the hands of the school to act on this growing problem. In Baltimore it has gotten to the point where a million plus dollar lawsuit was put in place against the school districts for their poor effort on putting programs in place like those of The Prevention Team to really solve the problem. Upon hearing these issues The Prevention Team has taken effort to reach out to a large portion of Baltimore to begin the attack on the bullying problem. Numerous Baltimore Ravens are apart of The Prevention Team it is just a matter of the schools agreeing and getting the sponsorship to put our successful program in place. The people have spoken the time is now to act!!! Check out the link below on more details to the million dollar case.<br /><br />http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/breaking/bs-md-ci-bullying-lawsuit-trial-20111215,0,6437599.storyUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-81688602081099976702011-12-08T06:32:00.000-08:002011-12-08T06:35:25.555-08:00How Fathers should Handle Bullying<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fDLJyawJDgs/TuDLDPqfugI/AAAAAAAABgg/rNN-M0MQ3Fk/s1600/bullying.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 134px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-fDLJyawJDgs/TuDLDPqfugI/AAAAAAAABgg/rNN-M0MQ3Fk/s200/bullying.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5683765986346383874" /></a><br /><br />What is a father to do? Your son or daughter comes home crying, "John pushed me down and said I was stupid." Worse yet, this is not the first time. You are angry, frustrated, and let's face it...pissed off. Your initial response is to hit something or maybe it's to tell your kid it's not a big deal and to get over it. Both responses are bad. Fighting is not the first choice and ignoring it is even worse. So what is a dad to do?<br /><br />Let us reason together…<br /><br />Bullying is wrong and hurts people. Most often it never escalates above name calling, but occasionally if left unchecked it can result in pain and even death. Many suicides, school shootings, rape, and robberies have been the direct result of bullying. Before you can deal with bullying we need to understand who bullies are and why they do it.<br /><br /><br /><br />Continue reading on Examiner.com How Fathers should Handle Bullying - Detroit fatherhood | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/fatherhood-in-detroit/how-fathers-should-handle-bullying#ixzz1fxC2MEl6Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-91560517098346816122011-11-30T08:44:00.000-08:002011-11-30T08:58:41.405-08:00School bullying: Did district miss cries for help?<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U_RZ8UFxPNU/TtZd-MVJNvI/AAAAAAAABgU/n1TlH50zmUA/s1600/bilde.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 113px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-U_RZ8UFxPNU/TtZd-MVJNvI/AAAAAAAABgU/n1TlH50zmUA/s200/bilde.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680831303017641714" /></a><br />Didn't anyone notice what was happening to Jamarcus Bell?<br /><br />Didn't any students, teachers or administrators see pieces of metal thrown at the 14-year-old during a welding class? Didn't they hear the painful anti-gay slurs thrown at him in the hallways?<br /><br />Wasn't his suicide attempt in the seventh grade -- when he was found alive, hanging from a noose in a janitor's closet -- a clear sign to educators or fellow students that this kid was having problems?<br /><br />Apparently not, according to his mother, who has filed a federal lawsuit against Hamilton Southeastern Schools alleging negligence in a tragic situation that ended in October 2010 when Jamarcus -- called Marcus by friends -- hung himself a second, and final, time. Read The Prevention Team <a href="http://www.indystar.com/article/20111130/LOCAL/111300324/Did-Hamilton-Southeastern-miss-cries-help-" target="_blank">Featured Story</a> today for more information.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-533507583317896703.post-48107596406354674042011-11-28T11:14:00.000-08:002011-11-28T12:36:45.822-08:00Boy violated as schoolground assault 'went too far'<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LUcIPjzTzRg/TtPfSNGYw6I/AAAAAAAABgI/xtI-4AbDNI0/s1600/school_kids_walk_2.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-LUcIPjzTzRg/TtPfSNGYw6I/AAAAAAAABgI/xtI-4AbDNI0/s200/school_kids_walk_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5680129058891416482" /></a><br />A Pukekohe High School student was held down and violated with a car part today after a joke about the boy moving to a private school...what is the world coming to; we as adults are responsible for guiding our youth into becoming our future leaders. Here at <strong>The Prevention Team</strong> we take pride in finding the best way to reach the children & teens of America. Our star athletes from numerous professional sport arenas go straight to the heart of this bullying epidemic and deliver messages to the student bodies of schools through out the nation in a forum that allows for a positive vibe to be established. Make sure to read The Prevention Team <em><a href="http://on.fb.me/sI53tC">Featured Story</a></em> today for more details!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0