Sentences with phrase «concerning bullying in schools»

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Shame on my gender, because our kids need us right alongside the moms, especially during a time when we're all concerned with school safety, bullying, and best practices in education.

Bullying has always been present in UK schools, but until the late 1980s, although people were aware that it happened, it was not an issue of major public concern.

And republicans, in addition, are concerned about many other issues: the discrimination faced by the LGBT community, consumers at the mercy of retailers or companies, Internet users at the mercy of providers or regulatory states, children at the mercy of their parents or teachers, the elder at the mercy of younger disrespectful citizens, the kid being bullied by a classmate at school, the prisoner abused by his jail mates or by the prison authorities, etc..

In several of the cases of bullying complaints, there is also a concern about the way the school has handled the allegations, failing to investigate accusations of bullying and physical abuse by teachers in some cases... «In four Steiner schools, the Department has received complaints about physical abuse from teachers towards pupils, including spitting in a pupil's face, making sexual innuendos and throwing a rounders bat at a pupiIn several of the cases of bullying complaints, there is also a concern about the way the school has handled the allegations, failing to investigate accusations of bullying and physical abuse by teachers in some cases... «In four Steiner schools, the Department has received complaints about physical abuse from teachers towards pupils, including spitting in a pupil's face, making sexual innuendos and throwing a rounders bat at a pupiin some cases... «In four Steiner schools, the Department has received complaints about physical abuse from teachers towards pupils, including spitting in a pupil's face, making sexual innuendos and throwing a rounders bat at a pupiIn four Steiner schools, the Department has received complaints about physical abuse from teachers towards pupils, including spitting in a pupil's face, making sexual innuendos and throwing a rounders bat at a pupiin a pupil's face, making sexual innuendos and throwing a rounders bat at a pupil.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said she is concerned that holding mock presidential elections in schools could lead to the type of bullying common in the real race for the WhiteSchools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said she is concerned that holding mock presidential elections in schools could lead to the type of bullying common in the real race for the Whiteschools could lead to the type of bullying common in the real race for the White House.

Wendy Craig, PhD, a professor of psychology at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario, says that bullying and obesity are both major public health concerns that teachers and schools — and not just parents — need to address.

Staff were also asked to indicate how often their school had used six intervention methods in actual cases of bullying (direct sanctions; strengthening the victim; mediation; restorative practice; the support group method; and, the method of shared concern) and their effectiveness.

Two eighth graders who appeared in the film as sixth graders said facing bullies and getting lost were among their top concerns about middle school.

While a smaller proportion of school leaders in 2016 appear to be worried about bullying among their pupils (33 % this year, down from 38 % in 2015), concern about obesity has seen a rise of 5 % over the same period — up from 36 % to 41 %.

The top concern parents expressed — a combined focus on violence, school safety, and bullying — is one that can be addressed in part at home, according to John Silva, director of safety and security at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, in Boston, Massachuschool safety, and bullying — is one that can be addressed in part at home, according to John Silva, director of safety and security at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, in Boston, MassachuSchool, in Boston, Massachusetts.

Radicalisation is seen as the top online security concern in schools, overtaking cyber bullying and child grooming, research shows.

Whether we're speaking out about our concerns over the school's response to bullying issues or whether we are cheering the school on in its «puberty talk» program for the older grades, we are making our presence known and felt.

On May 3, 2010, Massachusetts enacted An Act Relative to Bullying in Schools, which required the department of elementary and secondary education to publish and biennially update guidelines for the implementation of social and emotional learning curricula in kindergarten to grade 12 (see Section 16) and defined social and emotional learning as «the processes by which children acquire the knowledge, attitudes and skills necessary to recognize and manage their emotions, demonstrate caring and concern for others, establish positive relationships, make responsible decisions and constructively handle challenging social situations.».

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Alleviating inequity based on sex and gender helps schools improve learning and academic achievement by addressing serious concerns in bullying, sexual / gender harassment, climate and unfair disciplinary practices.

The bullying by school officials got so bad that Sen. Sylvia Allen stepped in with a statement, calling for schools to respect parents over their assessment concerns, and to stop bullying their children!

Recommendation 5 addresses the all - too - familiar concern of bullying in school.

Principals have to manage, lead, and are held accountable for: common core; technology initiatives; social and emotional learning; referendum initiatives; math implementation; science implementation; special education, community outreach; reading; testing (local and state); effective instruction; transportation; public relations, parent custody issues, residency; student and staff discipline, evaluations; hiring; parent complaints; bullying; safety issues; budgeting; human resources issues; immigration questions / concerns; school safety, visibility in and out of school; championing the never ending requests and demands from the central office (one of the biggest challenges); the constantly increasing demands around social media and communications; and the barrage of emails / texts demanding immediate response 24/7, just to name a few.

Parents» concerns (2 = a lot, 0 = not at all) that the adolescent was bullied by classmates and about violence in school were summed to create school violence (mean: 0.93; SE: 0.012; range: 0 — 4).

Finally, a group of studies concerned social relationships in and around the classrooms, expressed for instance in bullying versus victimization of bullying, 35 antisocial vs prosocial behaviour36 and classroom social status.37 These studies have demonstrated how important the school social environment is for the development of mental health problems in adolescents, and how important the familial background is for predicting who among the adolescents develops antisocial behaviour (or bullying behaviour) and who becomes the victim of other children's behaviour.

Parents and carers can help children tackle bullying at school, as parents, talk openly and honestly with your kids and let them know you are concerned about their safety and wellbeing at school, walk / drive them to school and back in the first week of school if possible, let your children know that there is lots of help available for them, help them to build support networks by organising play days with their classmates.

A school safety committee — a small group of people focused on school safety concerns — is one strategy to engage parents and youth, as well as others, in bullying prevention.

And the bullying takes place at school or in daycare, discuss your concerns with your child's teacher.

However, some contradictions concerning the influence of school environment on bullying behavior still exist in those results [2].