Bullying at School

CYBER-bullying is fast becoming the scourge of our age, in many regards, contrasting the benefits of the ever-growing social media juggernaut. As police are reported saying in the Advertiser, if someone is a victim of physical bullying they know who the ...  

A Melbourne researcher says excessive focus on self-esteem is turning children into narcissistic bullies. RMIT psychology lecturer Professor Helen McGrath works with the Alannah and Madeleine anti-violence foundation and has been heavily involved in ...  

Now, the parents of the girl who was beaten want the school district to take action. The student's mom is so upset she met Tuesday afternoon with someone from the Solano County district attorney's office asking them to crack down on this kind of bullying.  

A teenager tried to do the right thing and got punished for it. High school senior Stormy Rich got banned from the school bus after reporting the bullying of a special needs student. For months, Rich watched as they treated a mentally challenged middle ...  

DEAR ABBY: I am a retired New York City police officer and a resource officer at two high schools in Brooklyn. I must comment on the letter you printed from “Worried About My Boy in Tulsa” (March 29), whose 7-year-old is bullied. If a child hits another child so hard that medical attention is required, it is an assault. The police should have been notified and appropriate law enforcement action taken.  

WASHINGTON (May 29, 2012)--"American Idol" runner-up Jessica Sanchez says some girls from her school wanted to fight her and although nothing ever happened she can't even figure out why she was bullied. Sanchez said she was quiet and wouldn't ...  

A distraught mother has claimed that her 11-year-old son was driven to suicide by bullies at his school. Thomas Thompson took an overdose of painkillers after other pupils picked on him because he was clever and well-spoken, she said. Sandra Thompson found ...  

The statute of limitations is not out, so the police can still be contacted as soon as possible by this parent. -- Jim C. DEAR JIM: Many readers pointed out that this incident went beyond bullying into assault, and offered advice to "Worried" on ...  

The grieving, distraught parents were asked to sign a "voluntary safety plan" drawn up by CPS, temporarily placing their remaining children in someone else's care. Following a 2008 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision, CPS investigators were ...  

A couple years ago on a visit home, I was walking by my old elementary school. It was the middle of summer and the playground was abandoned, with weeds growing through the cracks in the asphalt. I looped my fingers through the chain-link fence that went around the playground.I read once that scents never change. I believed it then, because the smell of that fence was exactly the same as it was when I was a kid playing inside it. And...  

Lots of kids get bullied. But kids with autism are especially vulnerable. A new survey by the Interactive Autism Network found that nearly two-thirds of children with autism spectrum disorders have been bullied at some point. And it found that these kids are three times as likely as typical kids to have been bullied in the past month.  

In the video below, you've got to roll your eyes at Liberal hypocrisy. Check out The Stir defending anti-bullying activist Dan Savage's verbal attack in the video below, while keynoting a high school conference last week. Dan Savage, the writer...  

The boy was found by his 14-year-old sister hanging from a bunk bed with a belt around his neck. The 7-year-old, whom the Free Press is not naming, had been depressed about being bullied by other kids at school and in his neighborhood, and about his ...  

Cyber-bullying by mean-spirited girls. After-school bullying by teenage thugs. Classroom bullying by seemingly innocent grade-school kids. You name it, I’ve heard it. Truth is, I could write a column each week on this issue alone, and most every case ...  

New York Daily NewsTeen expelled for using stun gun against bulliesCNN InternationalBy Alan Duke, CNN (CNN) -- A gay teenager who pulled a stun gun on students he said bullied him has been expelled from his Indianapolis high school until January. "While the district does not condone bullying, it also does not allow weapons to be ...Bullied gay student who fired stun gun is expelledmsnbc.comBullied gay teen faces expulsion from school over stun...