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Iowa town wrestles with aftermath of ‘Bully’ documentary

DSAdmin — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:19:14 +0000

Gass was a seventh-grader on the ride home from middle school, just sitting and talking to a friend, he says, when he turned his head and realized that a knife was being held to his neck.

“You want to be friends?” asked the bully — in this case a girl a few years [...]

Bullying victim’s poem prompts healing after 25 years

DSAdmin — Sat, 19 May 2012 18:11:34 +0000

LOS ANGELES — A woman’s poem about being bullied in a California school 25 years ago has brought her former classmates to tears. Now, they’re creating a scholarship fund in her name and have raised $800 to fly her back to California for a class reunion.

“I got an outpour of calls [...]

Bullying victim’s poem prompts healing after 25 years

DSAdmin — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:07:49 +0000

“I got an outpour of calls [...]

25 years after bullying, Facebook poem prompts Class of 1987 to make amends

DSAdmin — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:01:02 +0000

Ahead of their 25-year high school reunion, former classmates come together to make amends with a woman who was taunted for being poor. KNSD-TV’s Tony Shin reports.

A woman says a Facebook poem she posted about bullying has brought pleas for forgiveness from former classmates who tormented her at a California high school 25 [...]

Bully Tenured Teachers Would Be Fired Easier Under NJ Legislation [AUDIO]

DSAdmin — Fri, 18 May 2012 05:44:12 +0000

By now, most of you have heard about the Cherry Hill Public School District teacher after the incident where audio recordings revealed teachers mocking and swearing at a ten year-old autistic boy.

SenateNJ.com

The incident began when officials at the Horace Mann Elementary School said Aiken Chaifetz was becoming [...]

Obama a bully, too

DSAdmin — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:26:23 +0000

Back when he was in high school, Mitt Romney joined with others in what sounds like a pretty nasty bullying episode, and that’s too bad and I hate it. I wish he were perfect from the day he was born, with absolutely no regrettable adolescent moments. The rest of us had none, right?

Here is [...]

Romney’s bullying gets another pass

DSAdmin — Thu, 17 May 2012 04:25:22 +0000

The media have given Mitt Romney a pass he doesn’t deserve on his response to a report that he bullied other students at his Michigan boarding school. Romney was fortunate in that the bullying story broke in the wake of President Obama’s declaration of support for same-sex marriage, which the media concluded was [...]

Bullying Mitt Romney?

DSAdmin — Wed, 16 May 2012 16:08:39 +0000

If you haven’t talked with one lately, most Republicans are up in arms that the media is covering several alleged bullying incidents by Mitt Romney when he was in high school. Conservatives allege that the liberal media is tearing Romney limb from limb while then-candidate Obama was never really vetted.

Exsqueeze me?

The media is [...]

Group protests bullying of gay teen at Ind. school

DSAdmin — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:52:11 +0000

They united to raise awareness about bullying and to show support for Darnell “Dynasty” Young, a gay 17-year-old who was expelled from from his high school last week for bringing a stun gun to school to protect himself from bullies. Young also was attacked Friday at a mall by a 34-year-old man who recognized [...]

Romney the Bully

DSAdmin — Tue, 15 May 2012 15:25:25 +0000

Last week, I was invited to speak to 40 high school freshman about human rights. When we discussed the right to be free from torture, I asked the students if they could think of an example of torture. They said, “bullying.”

A major problem among teens, bullying can lead to depression, and even suicide. [...]