Attorney General looking into bullying complaints against Wellesley coaches
Wicked Local Wellesley
“We have received the complaints and are reviewing them,” Deputy Press Secretary Jillian Fennimore said.

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What? A coach bully his players on a girls sports team he/she coaches for their school? Ask any school administrator responding to such an allegation, and he will repeat the same mantra those in similar settings chant: "Not at my school. Not on my watch."  I have heard this mantra from coaches, athletic director employees, superintendents even after a civil rights group filed Federal Complaints with the appropriate Federal agencies! If nothing else, these administrators are consistent in chanting their mantras.

Clinton Sparks is a Grammy award-winning producer, DJ, and recording artist. He was also a victim of bullying. (help end bullying!

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Thankfully media darlings are revealing just how pervasive bullying is now and has always been. Hopefully, their revelations will cause school administrators to (1) Admit that their schools are not made of gold, do in fact have unsightly blemishes and bullying DOES OCCUR IN THEIR SCHOOLS, and (2)  Once they come around to speaking the truth, rather than denying the obvious, they will implement EFFECTIVE anti-bullying programs that comply with all Federal and state legal and regulatory requirements (including strict standards on anti-retaliation prohibitions).

Teachers must recognize (and teach) that our perspective shapes our expectations and outcomes. Lori Desautels shares three practices for tuning into and altering perspective.

Source: www.edutopia.org

Nearly half of teens report having texted while driving, student survey finds
Times Colonist
At the same time, the percentage of teens who reported bullying others at school was down to 16 per cent in 2013 from 30 per cent over the same period.

Source: www.timescolonist.com

Teaching empathy is better than other ways to prevent bullying, says researchers. Children are less likely to bully others if they are empathetic.

 

Children are less likely to pick on their peers if they know the extent that the damage they have done, can go to. Experts also back up this prevailing wisdom. But kids are not born empathetic. They are susceptible to impulses.

Trying to tame bullies by teaching them empathy is one of the most effective ways to prevent bullying. But experts also suggest that teaching empathy may have the opposite effect on children.

Is Empathy the Solution to Bullying?

 

Source: www.secureteen.com

Hazing is violent behavior we’d never excuse under its real name: bullying and assault. Hazing is tacitly … Like all bullying, hazing is an abuse of power and it negatively affects both girls and boys.

Source: schoolclimate.com

‘However, while many people define genius differently, most agree that Richard Feynman was one and there is probably no better example of his brilliance than his famous talk, There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom. It not only launched a revolution in physics and engineering that is still being played out today, it shows us how a true genius really thinks.’

Source: www.creativitypost.com

… and regrets it, even to this day.

Source: www.upworthy.com

When school administrators don’t step in and stop racist bullying at the earliest opportunity, sometimes it is the bully who gets harmed far worse than his victims!