Sentences with phrase «toward school bullying»

Considering present attitudes toward school bullying, some viewers may not find this funny.

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-- Whether your child tends toward the bully or the bullied, Dr. O has great advice for preparing kids to go back to school and preparing parents to recognize the signs of bullying.

Ms. Martin had also taught Mr. Pagourtzis's sister; she said she had heard the high school had been hard on her, and that «she was bullied so terribly at the high school that she transferred to Clear Creek,» a school district up the road toward Houston.

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is pushing for an anti-bullying measure that would require schools to tell parents when their child is being bullied, or if their son or daughter is behaving like a bully toward others.

Fariña's DOE must implement better training and reporting on school violence and bullying, and must also reverse the aversion the Bloomberg and Giuliani administrations showed toward comprehensive sex education, including safe sex practices.

It calls on researchers to better explore connections among acts of bullying, discrimination, and harassment, and it attempts to nudge schools to move beyond classification and consequences and toward the kind of understanding, communication, and support that can change a culture.

Parents will want to know how they will be notified in case of an emergency; whether the school has an emergency plan (and they should ask to see it); the policy with regard to guns, knives, and other hazardous items; the school's policy toward bullying; and whether there are formal programs in place to combat bullying.

The first step toward creating an effective schoolwide antibullying program is identifying where, when, and how students experience bullying at a particular school.

Naming and reclaiming goodness in the school community is an important step toward reducing bullying.

In addition, the GAO found that states and school districts are taking steps toward reducing bullying, but that their approaches vary regarding who is covered.

Over the course of Stead's 200 - page middle - grade novel, Miranda deals with changing friendships, bullying, racial prejudice directed toward a classmate, a first crush, different income levels within her school — all while solving a mystery that could save her friend's life.

Records show he was disciplined numerous times at Westglades Middle in Parkland for unruly and disruptive behavior, and neighbors described him bullying his brother, stealing and being abusive toward animals in elementary school.

The larger bullying prevention field has appeared to shift away from targeting bullies, and bullying behavior, toward improving the overall school climate of the school, as Twemlow advocates.

This finding contributes to the growing evidence base that involvement in cyber bullying undermines young people's peer relationships (Jackson and Cohen 2012; Vandebosch and van Cleemput 2009) and underscores the importance of peer relationships for fostering positive attitudes toward learning and school (Lynch et al. 2013).

The current findings have implications for practitioners working with young people who are involved in cyber bullying because this external stressor clearly has negative implications for their attitudes toward school and the value they place on learning.

[book] Espelage, D. L / 2004 / Empathy, caring, and bullying: Toward an understanding of complex associations in Bullying in American Schools: A social - ecological perspective on prevention and intervention / Erlbaum:bullying: Toward an understanding of complex associations in Bullying in American Schools: A social - ecological perspective on prevention and intervention / Erlbaum:Bullying in American Schools: A social - ecological perspective on prevention and intervention / Erlbaum: 37 ~ 61