Sentences with phrase «bullying prevention programs do»

This was picked up by the media and shared widely as evidence that bullying prevention programs do not work.

Not exact matches

Bullying prevention programs, moreover, also hold the promise of doing more than preventing bBullying prevention programs, moreover, also hold the promise of doing more than preventing bullyingbullying.

All across the country this month, hundreds of schools and organizations are recognizing the harmful affects of bullying through collaborative programs, initiatives, and bullying prevention measures to highlight what students and educators can do to ensure safe and healthy school environments.

Rather than asking what we are doing (or not doing) in schools that so alienates some students that they eventually leave (or are pushed out), schools are often content with implementing «bullying prevention» programs or «positive discipline» initiatives that treat selected symptoms but never get at the root causes connected to problematic, unequal, unproductive, prejudicial conditions and relationships.

More recently, Espelage and her colleagues reviewed 19 evaluations of bullying prevention programs and found that these efforts do ok with younger students (7th grade and lower), but largely fail among students in high school: «Altogether, the present analysis suggests that we can not yet confidently rely on anti-bullying programs for grades 8 and above.»

This doesn't mean that bullying prevention programs accomplish nothing, though.