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Anonymous
| Does your school use one? What do you like/dislike about it? Do you see any signs that your kids are benefiting from it? Did the school develop its own, or does it use a "packaged" one? |
Anonymous
| Is bullying really a problem with private schools in this area, so much that policies are needed? I swear - we coddle kids so much these days. How in the heck did we deal with idiot bullies when we were young? We just did. |
Anonymous
| Isn't it more a culture than a curricula? |
Anonymous
Bullying can have profound negative effects on children, particularly children with any kind of learning, developmental or other difference. It is not the same thing as the typical give and take of childhood interactions, frenemies, occasional teasing. You obviously were never bullied if you have this attitude. But its awfully arrogant to assume that because you never encountered a certain problem. that it should never be addressed. We teach children that stealing and cheating is wrong. But if we teach children that bullying is wrong, thats considered coddling? |
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Although I can see your point that we just dealt with bullying, did any of us like it? I was bullied (very briefly in 7th grade) and I haven't forgotten it. Ask anyone who has been bullied, they remember everything about it. I believe I would have had a better middle school experience without those experiences. I'm sure someone could say I grew from those experiences, but I don't believe so.
So I'm all for classes that can prevent this behavior. |
Anonymous
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The only thing I learned from being bullied (7th grade also) was that when after weeks and weeks of being thrown into lockers, or kicked in the back while sitting on the bleachers, it only stopped when I completely lost my temper and stuck my finger nails in the leg that was kicking me from behind. The guidance counselor for my grade and my mother having meetings achieved far less.
Would I recommend this approach to my children. No. I'm glad that bullying has finally been acknowledged as a damaging thing and that measures have been taken within schools to tackle it early on. |
Anonymous
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Anonymous
That worked well at Columbine High School. |
Anonymous
Not to mention the scores of teens that have attempted suicide or ended their lives due to bullying. Judging from the posts on this thread we as parents have a lot to learn about bullying and we have to stop looking at things through an adult lens or even what happened in the past. It's a whole new ball game now. The most popular curriculum that schools use is Olweus which is an evidence based curriculum which has been proven to reduce bullying in school environments. In order to be effective, it has to be implemented exactly as intended and there is alot of training involved, not to mention the expense. It is important to know that there are experts out there trying to get their arms around bullying - Department of Ed just this year hosted the first ever summit on bullying, however the urgency is not there. I personally consider bullying to be a major public health crisis and parents and schools need help and support to understand the problem and ultimately stop it. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/10/03/p.child.being.bullied/
"Is your child being bullied? An estimated 25 percent are -- and the signs can be tricky for parents to detect. That's why the American Academy of Pediatrics has developed a new policy that recommends doctors discuss bullying during checkups" |
Anonymous
| Do you think the over-coddling combined with helicopter parents and sense of entitlement contributes to the increase in bullying and/or tragic results we are seeing these days? Or is the same as it always was just that now we hear of more extreme cases because of the internet? |
Anonymous
See the recent Norwood - what's to love and hate thread. |