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I was at a super scrimmage with my daughter's volleyball team this weekend. The team that should have won the entire tournament left because their coach discovered some of his girls were taking video of a girl on a weaker team, comparing her to an animal, and posting this video on YouTube. After apologizing, this coach planned on taking his team ho...See MoreI was at a super scrimmage with my daughter's volleyball team this weekend. The team that should have won the entire tournament left because their coach discovered some of his girls were taking video of a girl on a weaker team, comparing her to an animal, and posting this video on YouTube. After apologizing, this coach planned on taking his team home to "work out their aggression" in his home gym for the 5 hours they would have been at the tournament. I wish we all had the courage to take such a drastic step with our students, athletes, sons, and daughters. This coach could have easily pretended he didn't know about it. We need to explicitly teach the dangers of making ugliness public. Messaging, posting videos, etc...it is essential that we add yet another piece to our already crowded curriculum.
by Dyke Wayne Stewart
Jul 17, 2012
Bully - Free School Zone Online Zazzle Store have many different anti bullying products, which comes in many different colors, to match your schools spirit colors. So to all administrators, principles, professors and teachers, arm your school with some great "Bully - Free" products today. Become A Friend, A Helping Hand To Lend, Bully's Never Win, ...See MoreBully - Free School Zone Online Zazzle Store have many different anti bullying products, which comes in many different colors, to match your schools spirit colors. So to all administrators, principles, professors and teachers, arm your school with some great "Bully - Free" products today. Become A Friend, A Helping Hand To Lend, Bully's Never Win, Bullying Is A Sin! *If you cannot find your schools spirit colors, please feel free to email the store owner and they will be created.
by Samuel Bowman
Jul 29, 2012
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by Dyke Wayne Stewart
Aug 1, 2012
Bully - Free School Zone Online Zazzle Store have many different anti bullying products, which comes in many different colors, to match your schools spirit colors. So to all administrators, principles, professors and teachers, arm your school with some great "Bully - Free" products today. Become A Friend, A Helping Hand To Lend, Bully's Never Win, ...See MoreBully - Free School Zone Online Zazzle Store have many different anti bullying products, which comes in many different colors, to match your schools spirit colors. So to all administrators, principles, professors and teachers, arm your school with some great "Bully - Free" products today. Become A Friend, A Helping Hand To Lend, Bully's Never Win, Bullying Is A Sin! *If you cannot find your schools spirit colors, please feel free to email the store owner and they will be created.
by MARK TRAINA
Aug 6, 2012
Bullying and “Bullycide” national data and statistics. Approximately, 160,000 U.S. public school students miss school every day out of fear of being bullied. Many types of bullying occurring in schools today did not exist when we as parents and teachers were growing up. Students got threatened, teased and bounced around a bit, but this new type...See MoreBullying and “Bullycide” national data and statistics. Approximately, 160,000 U.S. public school students miss school every day out of fear of being bullied. Many types of bullying occurring in schools today did not exist when we as parents and teachers were growing up. Students got threatened, teased and bounced around a bit, but this new type of bullying that I am talking about is occurring in “Cyberspace!” Cyberbullying is becoming more and more rampant in schools across America. Social networking has provided an entirely new environment for bullying to take place. According to bullying statistics coming out of the White House, in 2010, there were approximately 2.7 million students involved in cyberbullying activities either as the perpetrator or as the victim. Strangely, studies have actually shown that being a victim of cyberbullying can actually lead to the victims themselves becoming cyberbullies as a means of retaliation. In fact, revenge for bullying is one of the strongest motivations for school shootings, according to recent bullying statistics. Approximately, sixty percent of all students felt that the number one reason students shoot at one another at school is because they have been victims of physical violence in their home, communities and/or at school. Interestingly, a number of studies have also suggested that many students act out violently on their peers, teachers, school administrators and school staff personnel because they are abused at home. FACT: Over half of all public school students have witnessed a bullying crime take place while at school. FACT: Approximately fifteen percent of all students who do not show up for school report it to be out of fear of being bullied while at school. FACT: Over seventy percent of all public school students report bullying as an on-going problem. FACT: Nearly ten percent of students dropping out of school or changing from one school to another is due to repeated bullying. FACT: Five percent of all public school students have actually witnessed a fellow student on campus with a gun. FACT: Ninety percent of the bullying that is occurring in public schools throughout America occurs between fourth through eighth grades. FACT: Over fifty percent of all public school students reported that witnessing physical abuse at home can lead to violence in school. FACT: Sadly, homicide perpetrators were found to be twice as likely as homicide victims to have been physically abused by family members and/or peers during their early childhood and adolescent years. FACT: Over 280,000 Students are reportedly attacked on publicly funded school campuses in America each month. Suicide continues to be one of the leading causes of death among children under the age of fourteen. “Bullycide” is a new term used to describe suicide as the result of being bullied. Clinical studies out of the Yale School of Medicine have shown strong connections between bullying, being bullied and suicide. In fact, suicide rates for American public school students have grown more than fifty percent in the past thirty years. Bullying can include various types of behaviors from physical attacks, to destroying one's personal property or clothing, verbal abuse, starting rumors, name calling, verbal aggression online, as well as, other forms of cyberbullying. For students who feel they are being bullied, it is important for teachers, school counselors and school administrators to address the matter with a parent as soon as possible. Students need to be informed that telling on someone for doing something wrong is always the right thing to do. Students also need to know that in the majority of cases when a bully is reported, the bullying stops because the bully is faced with very serious repercussions. These repercussions could possibly lead to expulsion, imprisonment and parental court appearances and fines.
I thought this would be the best forum for my issue. This is my 4th year. I absolutely love my job! The principal is awesome, the staff, etc. Well all except my grade level teachers. :( There is one teacher who takes the lead and has the dominant personality. She's been there the longest and always gets the special requests for students in her clas...See MoreI thought this would be the best forum for my issue. This is my 4th year. I absolutely love my job! The principal is awesome, the staff, etc. Well all except my grade level teachers. :( There is one teacher who takes the lead and has the dominant personality. She's been there the longest and always gets the special requests for students in her classroom. We work in a lower economic area so many of our students are on free or reduced lunches. Since my time there I have had numerous people tell me that she scouts out kids for her class every year, that she was a bully, and to never get on her bad side. (She's one of those ladies who knows EVERYONE." After my first year I had thought about leaving. It was not what I expected a team to be. We planned together it was more about gossip. She and another teacher are negative and talk about the children and parents they don't like. While being at the school for 3 years, I built my reputation as a caring and exciting teacher. Now there is a shift and I've been getting all the requests. I saw her list of children she expected to get this year and they are in my class. I was told by a parent that she texts parents and guilts them into requesting her as a teacher. Parents have pulled their children out of her class to be in mine. Now that school has begun she has been be even more snobby to me and now getting others teachers involved. I am afraid that she may do something sneaky to get me in trouble. She and one of the other teachers team up and do everything together. I feel so left out. I have not spoken to my principal yet. I am wondering what I should do. I'm trying to remain professional, but it is becoming more and more difficult.
This is my second year teaching at private school. I teach math and I have a slightly foreign accent. (not strong at all). Anyway, the parents whose children fail my quizzes bully me verbally though e-mails or face to face. If I tell them to come and ask for extra help, they say that the kids are busy with the sports that they are involved in. Anyt...See MoreThis is my second year teaching at private school. I teach math and I have a slightly foreign accent. (not strong at all). Anyway, the parents whose children fail my quizzes bully me verbally though e-mails or face to face. If I tell them to come and ask for extra help, they say that the kids are busy with the sports that they are involved in. Anything I do, is just not fair to the parents. For example, I give them a quiz on "review material" that they students have a week to work on(linear equations in a precalculus class!!!), some students fail and their parents expect me to reteach the review material. They threatend me that other kids this is unfair and they say that they talked about me on Facebook! I am thinking to find a teaching job, where I don't have to deal with parents. I really love teaching, but the parents at this school feel that because they pay tuition, it is the teacher's fault for everything that the students fail to do!! I am sick of this. Any suggestions about where I could find a different teaching job with my qualifications? I have a master's in teaching math secondary. I teach pre- calc and calc this year, but I really hate to be bullied by parents! Thanks
Do you think the media does enough to prevent cyber bullying over the internet amongst young children? It is often stressed to be ended in school settings, but can the media do anything more to get the point across?
What is your opinion on having cameras or some type of monitoring system in the School locker room? Does this count as an invasion of privacy even if it is preventing bullying/fights? How would you think parents would react?
"...be judged not by the color of your skin but by the > content of your character." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. > > "...the truth will set you free." John 8:32 > > This Could Happen To You BY: Debra Karr > > It was 11:00 AM on this Thursday morning, one month into my > student teaching semester. I had just finished teaching ...See More"...be judged not by the color of your skin but by the > content of your character." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. > > "...the truth will set you free." John 8:32 > > This Could Happen To You BY: Debra Karr > > It was 11:00 AM on this Thursday morning, one month into my > student teaching semester. I had just finished teaching > Charlotte Evensen's freshman English class at Warren High > School in the Downey Unified School District. Evensen was > one of two master teachers who supervised me and had been > in the room during my entire lesson. The students had just > left the classroom and Evensen called me to her desk. > "Please come back and see me at 6th period" she said. 6th > period was nearly three hours away, so I presumed that what > she needed to tell me wasn't that pressing. I obliged, and > came back to see her during 6th period. > > It was now roughly 2PM. Evensen and I stood in her empty > classroom. She began, "You will no longer be doing group > work in my classroom." > > "Fine" I said, "but may I ask why? The group work was a > teaching strategy strongly suggested by my teaching > credential program at California State University Long > Beach (CSULB) and I was just implementing it." > > "Well you will not be doing it here", she continued, > "Because while you were teaching with group work this > morning, students were being sexually harassed and > bullied." > > I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "Really?" I asked, > "Which students were being bullied and sexually harassed ? > And where were they sitting?" > > Evensen did not give me specific names-just gestured > vaguely to one side of the room and barked, "those kids > over there." > > I then said, "Let me get this straightŠ if students were > being bullied and sexually harassed almost 3 hours ago, as > you allege, why did you sit there and let it happen?" > > Like a politician that dodges a question, she responded > with some general rant about how she was trying to help me. > > I wrote down this conversation between her and I > immediately and put it into my journal, which is required > by CSULB's credential program. I then went home and copied > this conversation into an email to my University Supervisor > Dianne Vipond. > > I then received an email from Vipond telling me that I > would no longer be working with Evanson, but to continue my > student teaching and report to work on Monday. > > That Monday I sat in an English Teacher meeting with my > other Master Teacher-Monica Shulman. 20 minutes into the > meeting, there was a knock at the door. The principal of > the school John Harris and the English Department Chair > Shirley Stewart stood in the door jamb. Ms. Stewart said, > "Ms. Karr collect your things and come with us". I went > outside with them, and Harris said, "We need you to leave > campus until this thing is straightened out. We'll call you > when it's time to come back." Feeling criminalized, I went > around the corner to the Starbucks. Two hours later I > received a call from Vipond telling me that I should just > go home and that I'll be hearing from her later. > > 7PM that evening I was told by Vipond that I am no longer > allowed on the Warren Campus and that I'm not allowed to > contact any staff member, student or parent of Warren HS or > the Downey Unified School District. > > I wrote an email to Dr. Karen Hakim Butt the now interim > Associate Dean of the College of Education at CSULB > requesting further clarification and all I got back was an > email from Downey Unified and CSULB saying that I was "not > a proper fit". In sum, they kicked me out of student > teaching with no investigation, no inquiry as to what > transpired; no due diligence, no recourse. > > I tried to get my money back for the last student teaching > semester, but the accounting office told me they needed > some special code from Dr. Hakim Butt who was out of the > office during the refund period, so CSULB still charged me. > > 3 years of blood, sweat, tears, precious time and a > mountain of student loans with no teaching license to show > for it all. Unfortunately, my experience is not the only > one. This is how these corrupt academics earn their bloated > salaries and fund their pensions. > > I have gone to the CCTC, talked to 4 attorneys (even the > office of Gloria Allred), written letters to Michele Obama, > Ms. Biden, the Department of Education, and many others. > Legally, they get away with this crap. Just letting you all > know. Have a Happy New Year! > > Sincerely, > > Debra K. Karr > > From: [email removed];
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