Facebook Bully Jailed For Online Death Threats

Keeley Houghton, just like most other 18-year-old teenagers, has an account on Facebook, but she has been detained for three months in a young offenders' institution for making death threats to Emily Moore, also 18, on the popular social networking site. She is the first...

Big rise in male ChildLine calls

I was shocked when I heard this on the news this morning. "ChildLine is a free 24 hour counselling service for children and young people up to and including 18 in the UK provided by The NSPCC.[1] ChildLine deals with any issue which causes distress or concern, such as child...

BULLYING —THERE IS A SOLUTION

Although bullying is an old problem, it sure seems to have a new face. Starting out as a teacher three decades ago, I tended to tell parents to simply step out of the picture and let their son or daughter face their bullies on their own. That was the advice our parents gave...

Bullying: What Can You Do?

A couple weeks ago, I attended Anti-Defamation League’s Cyberbullying Symposium along with 200+ students, educators and school leaders.  The keynote speaker was John Halligan, a name many of you remember...

Top Six Ways to Kill Piper: Sick YouTube Video is Cyber Bullying

Beth Smith, mother of Elk Plain School of Choice student Piper Smith, was justifiably outraged when a YouTube video called Top Six Ways to Kill Piper appeared on the popular online video hosting service.  Far...

NYSUT demands law to curb bullying in schools

"These are only the heartbreaking headlines that have caught our attention," said NYSUT President Dick Iannuzzi. "We know that there are many more students whose stories don't make the headlines." Bullying is...

Avon & Somerset Police.

This force has been told by a high court judge in London that, they have spent all their time on a nit picking exercise in search of a technical loophole, in order to avoid answering any questions over incidents...

Tom Daley, 14 Year Old Olympian, Bullied Out of School

Tom Daley, the 14 year-old Olympic diver from Britain has quit school after repeated bullying throughout the year.Daley, who placed seventh in the 10 metre individual dive at the Beijing games, has faced bullying...

13th Annual National Day of Silence, Friday April 17, 2009

The 13th Annual National Day of Silence is taking place today in thousands of schools across the United States. Participating students will take a vow of silence to bring attention to anti-LGBT name-calling,...

Carl Joseph Walker Hoover Suicide: Bullying to Blame

Carl Joseph Walker Hoover was only 11 years old when he took his own life and now his parents are speaking out about the brutal bullying that they blame for his suicide. Carl Joseph was an active student at the New Leadership Charter School, an athlete, and a boy scout - he...

Parents and Doctors Create Monsters Out of Autistics

i am calling for the immediate public shaming of, and lawsuits for abuse, against Ann Bauer, the mother of Andrew Bauer, a person who started life as autistic and has since been destroyed and changed into a violent...

Premier Accused of Pink Shirt Hypocrisy on Anti-Bullying Day

Premier Gordon Campbell and CKNW talk show host Christie Clark, may wish they had left their pink shirts in the closet as their own bullying baggage is dragged out along with the shirts. Campbell has declared Feb....

Feb 10 is Safer Internet Day in Europe, protecting youth the goal

Countries throughout the European Union highlighted Safer Internet Day on February 10 with a commitment to making the web a safer place for youth. Research involving approximately 20,000 Internet users between the...

Crucial question to Obama

The world has welcomed new American President-elect Barack Obama. When French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said that the French and others around the world "welcome the election of a man committed to dialogue between peoples and communities and cooperation among...

Ahmadinejad: 'American empire' nearing its end

"(CNN) -- In a blistering speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed "a few bullying powers" for creating the world's problems and said the "American empire in the world is reaching the end of its road." ...

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