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I definitely learned a lot from my world religion classes in college - in fact, that's when I really started seeing Christianity in a different light than I had when I was growing up. I'm not a Christian, but I did develop a deep respect for the t...
That's not what I said - maybe i wasn't clear, but I said that students should all be allowed to have their bibles with them, and that if someone is telling them they can't have bibles, that is a problem that I would stand beside them to correct. ...
Thank you for that. I also agree that Christians and all other groups should be able to speak up and express themselves, and that sharing opinions and beliefs is a fundamentally important part of our national, state, and community dialogue.I have ...
Yes - they were not INTENDING to exclude anyone. That's my point - people go about their business and engage in behavior that DOES exclude some, without meaning any harm. I think that all the kids who behaved that way towards me were WELL-INTENTIO...
I don't even know where to start... As one of the only nonChristians in my elementary, middle, and high school, let me present the other side of that coin. I often felt excluded and demeaned and insulted by Christian students and Christian staff. ...
Yeah, its really upsetting that kids bully each other over things that cannot be helped, and that natural differences make some kids targets. In terms of why KCS fails to effectively communicate focused anti-bullying messages to the student body, ...
Another good article I just saw: http://abcnews.go.com/politics/Story?id=8035357&page=1
A few thoughts:
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1) definitely passivity and weakness/perceived weakness are major defining characteristics of bullying:
"Children and youth who are bullied are typically anxious, insecure, and cautious and suffer from low self-esteem, rarely de...
Totally agree - just posted something similar on the just-started bullying thread in the forum. Telling a kid to "ignore it" is considered the exact wrong advice by anti-bullying experts because it just reinforces the aggressive/passive dynamic on...
Many parents' (and teachers') initial response to bullying and harassment is to tell their kids to ignore it - but the advice from anti-bullying resources is usually that telling the victim to ignore it only makes things worse, because it puts the...
A big thing that ALL parents could do to help prevent bullying and harassment is to teach their kids NOT to be part of the "bystander effect" - bullies thrive on having an uncritical audience, of the kids standing around watching them bully, haras...
It is definitely a wide-spread problem, I hear these stories constantly too. I see so many cases where the "victim" on the mediation referral had been bullying the "offender" on the referral weeks/months, and now the kid who is the real victim get...
definitely important - so many local schools are not meeting their NCLB numbers (although I'm not sure whether or not the Obama administration is making significant changes to NCLB?). Vic, what do you consider the major components that go into aca...
Personally, I like the idea of all kids learning self-defense. I think it would be very valuable, would help them throughout their lives, and would help with self-discipline and confidence issues. I think that schools would be opposed to it for th...
Just a note - a Knox County GSA student was recognized for his activism efforts by being invited to the White House yesterday:
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http://blog.glsen.org/2009/06/glsen-student-leader-speaks-with.html
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http://www.towleroad.com/2009/06/obamas-white-ho...
That's an excellent point - there are strict anti-bullying policies for Knox County, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find many families that feels the school has responded appropriately to enforce those policies. I know of kids who have been ...
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- At 2:23pm on June 15, 2009,
Jackie Kittrell said… - There are several conversations already started which look interesting. We might start our own too. I'm not sure who all is on the forum, but I assume parents and teachers and school admin types.
- At 2:02pm on June 15, 2009,
Jackie Kittrell said…
- Hi Jen!
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