School Bullying: News Articles and Links
Tormentors
Education Week
By Debra Viadero
January 15, 2003
“Two years ago in March, 15-year-old Charles ‘Andy’ Williams walked into his Santee, Calif., high school and sprayed his classmates with bullets from his father's gun. Almost a year later, the troubled teenager wrote a poem offering some clues to why he did it.
New Breed of Bullies Torment Their Peers on the Internet: Bullies who once cornered their victims on the playground are now tormenting them in cyberspace
Education Week
By Julie Blair
February 5, 2003
“For schoolyard menaces, e-mail messages and Web sites have increasingly become vehicles to threaten, tease and humiliate other students. Experts worry that such situations—dubbed ‘cyberbullying’—are just as hurtful as other types of bullying, yet are less likely to be detected or prevented by grown-ups.”
Study Says School Atmosphere Fosters Abuse of 'Nerds'
Education Week
By Julie Blair
February 19, 2003
“Many American teenagers are so afraid of being labeled "nerds" or "freaks" by their peers that they undermine their own educational experiences in an attempt to avoid such tags, new research says.”
Two Studies Highlight Links Between Violence, Bullying by Students
Education Week
By Debra Viadero
May 14, 2003
“Two large studies appear to strengthen the case that bullying and other forms of unkindness that children and teenagers inflict on one another can lead to incidences of violence later on.”
When It Comes to Bullying, There Are No Boundaries: Nations Try Various Strategies to Eradicate Such Behavior in Schools
Education Week
By Marianne D. Hurst
February 9, 2005
“American policymakers have been urgently seeking solutions to school bullying and violence in recent years, but the issue had been receiving attention in many other countries long before it hit the U.S. spotlight. ‘Bullying is a problem in every school in the world, which may seem like a simplistic answer, but it’s true,’ said Andrew Mellor, the manager of the Anti-Bullying Network at the University of Edinburgh, an organization funded by the Scottish government to provide schools and students with information and support.”
Bullying: Four Small Steps to Stop a Big Problem
The Chicago Tribune
By Janis Campbell
March 1, 2005
“It's not a girl thing. It's not a boy thing. It's a mean thing. Bullying or teasing is something many kids experience firsthand or see happening to someone they know. Chances are you've probably encountered at least a few mean kids at school, whether they were mean to you or one of your friends. Avoiding mean, teasing or bullying kids seems to be nearly impossible.”
Milwaukee to open charter school for bullied students
GazetteXtra
AP
March 7, 2004
“Plans are underway to open a charter school in Milwaukee with a focus on students who feel discriminated against or bullied. ‘I saw a lot of students who were being bullied and no one was doing anything about it,’ said Tina Owen, a teacher at Milwaukee's Washington High School who will leave her job to become the lead teacher at what will be called Alliance School.”
Schoolyard Bullies Get Nastier Online
USA Today
By Jon Swartz
March 7, 2005
“When Joanne had a row with a longtime friend last year, she had no idea it would spill into cyberspace. But what started as a spat at a teenage sleepover swiftly escalated into a three-month harangue of threatening e-mails and defacement of her weblog. ‘It was a non-stop nightmare,’ says Joanne, 14, a freshman at a private high school in Southern California. ‘I dreaded going on my computer.’ The bullying eventually stopped after her parents and school officials intervened. But Joanne remains shaken by the experience.”
Links
Safe and Responsive Schools
National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center
Stop Bullying Now
National PTA ASSOCIATION
Students United with Parents and Educators to Resolve Bullying (SUPERB)
Bullying.org
Back off Bully
Take Action Against Bullying
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