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Antibullying Classes Needed First This Year
(I'm feeling aggravated)
.Student bullying and violence needs to be addressed on the first day of school all around the country. Unfortunately, these shootings aren't anything new. There are school shootings almost every month that you don't hear abou,t except for maybe the evening news. That's because the "Principal" gets a lot of it hushed up before the news gets wind of it.
I think it was my substitute who got shot in the hand when I was off due to the fight. A couple of kids came in through an emergency exit and opened fire in the cafeteria. Nobody died, and the way I heard it ... only ankles, legs or hands were shot. Frankly, being from a bad neighborhood myself, I didn't think it was very newsworthy either.That is something I'm aware of every minute of the day
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I feel so much for him and his family because the school administrators have been acting like it is the teacher‘s fault. I hope all of these victims did not die in vain. Let's fine the parents and EDUCATE THEM TOO. Mandatory sessions would be a great idea if parents want their kids to come home from school.
Most of the bullies are simply trying to get attention because they are starving for it. When a student, ones who want attention so badly, like these kids with the guns, he is going to get it somewhere, and what place has the best audience? Or even the biggest? Class rooms, or, school cafeterias.
They need to deal with the subject and have sessions and classes on anti-bullying NOW! Finally, people are listening. How can a teacher teach when the kids do whatever they want … because they don‘t know how to socialize anymore.
They need to deal with the subject and have sessions and classes on anti-bullying NOW! Finally, people are listening. How can a teacher teach when the kids do whatever they want … because their parents are all too busy to help them with their homework or spend quality time with them when they get home from work.
Not only that, but kids don‘t know how to socialize anymore? They can't go out to play anymore, not when you must watch them every single minute because pedophiles only spend 4 to 6 years in jail after raping kids under 12 years old. That is another story, but my point is that kids are spending too much time in front of the TV or with TV games.
Part ll below. As for training, teachers, counselors can get training for credits at CSAPS Prevention Pathways. You can find the ABCs of Bullying at www.samhsa.gov and get all of the tools and classroom participation guides to teaching antibullying in and out of school there.
It's very dangerous sometimes in schools, and bullying affects one in three children in the US grades 6-10, and one third of high school students had serious problems with bullying, according to the National Institute of Child Health and Human
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In a further survey, data collected by the federal government found 36percent reported hate violence or graffiti at school, and 55 percent of 8-11 year olds said bullying was a problem, while 68 percent of the 12-15 year-olds agreed.
Sadly, the Centers for Disease control (CDC) found 6.6 percent of students, grades 9-12 had missed one day during a 30 day period because they felt unsafe at school. According to the National Education Association, bullying has become more lethal -- and occurs more frequently in recent years "than in the previous two decades before."
The National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) has called bullying the most common form of violence in society. You can also contact the US Department of Human Services which has launched a major antibullying effort.
I posted this story on 11/17/2008, at 7:44:31 AM, and I did all of the research on it myself in the hope that someone would deal with the problem. This is the ELEPHANT in the living room that we have ignored for far to long. God bless you if you deal with this now. God help you if you do not!
. He's in the class showing off too, and there is nothing but the "One Prescription for Every Problem," commonly known as the "detention." That is about all a teacher has to deter behavior in an every middle and high school within the major inner cities. I was attacked by two girls when a fight broke out during a test and there was a female security guard right outside my door, where I was standing and watching the class. One of the girls said one word under her breath about another girl; she said the word "pregnant."
Obviously one of the girls was pregnant and didn't like the remark. Out of complete silence in the room, suddenly the girls were yelling at one another from across the room, but moving closer to each other. I looked at the female security guard and she just stood there as the girl grabbed each other and before I knew it they pulled each other down, their heads 2 inches from the corner of my desk. I just bent over and tried to pry them apart -- and to my surprise, they both grabbed me by my hair and started pulling mee down in between them.
They both pulled at my head and as I tried to stand up, and I fell. I was still tryiing to stand back up because they were punching me in the head too. It took all of my might to stand up with one of them holding me in a headlock, and the other one pulling my hair down. i got up with the two girls hanging on my head, two healthy sized sophomores gave me three really bad herniated disks in my neck.
Finally as I pushed one of them up against the wall, the girl behind me ripped her blouse off and her bra came off. Then the male security guards(out of about 15 employed in the school) pulled the girl off of my back and the other one was trying to get the other girl with her bra hanging off and her breasts exposed. I couldn't believe that I was so strong, but I knew that I can be sued as a teacher if anything happens to a student in my class.
I had to go to a worker's comp. doctor and was treated like I was lying. I thought about sueing the school for awhile because I was sick with a migraine for three days, and I already had Lupus. The rest is history because I loved teaching, and if I sued the school, i wouldn't be able to teach in that county ... and possibly not in the next county. I'm disabled now from arthritis in my spine and hip, too, so, I guess I should have sued because I can't hold my head up, or lift anything heavier than a gallon of milk without pulling my neck out and getting a migraine.
In fact, I just read about a similar situation in the best selling book I'm reading entitled. "Accountability," by Tavis Smiley with Stephanie Robinson. This book is one that every teacher and parent should read. It talks about all of our issues with "Education" and every other social problem President Obama is going to be dealing with. President Obama's picture is on the front o the book. I haven't read that much of it, but the author won the honor of being "A New York Time Best Selling Author."
He questions the way things really are right now ... and gives great examples of what, not only Obama, but everyone needs to do to deal with reality and giving people responsibility they can be "Accountable" for, or learn who really should be held "Accountable" for hamdling social situations, ones that many of us simply do not care enough about or don't realize.It's an excellent book for everyone because the school incident with the teacher really may need camera's in the classrooms. I say yes!. That teacher ended up on Youtube because one of the students flmed he whole thing. The sad thing about her situation is that the entire class was urging the girl to hit the teacher. This poor teacher, like me, has to worry about being killed. My life was threatened every day -- EVERY DAY!
In her case, she was being beaten in the head and in a fight with a really strong teen-age girl. And you think teachers are not doing their jobs because of a problem with their ability to teach them to mind, not talk back, argue with you, sit down when the bell rings, or please ...moral values like, love, kindess, dealing with feeling different ... and all of the other values they MIGHT learn in the reading. No. I knew that was what all of the parents expected the teachers to teach them: EVERYTHING A PARENT SHOULD BE TEACHING THEM BEFORE THEY WALK INTO A SCHOOL!
Unless a student threatens physical harm to a student or the teacher -- all you have as a teacher to threaten them with is the detention -- or the bad behavior grades, That is laugh until the parents I've tried to call for three weeks come in telling me her little angel would never talk back to me. The kids DO NOT CARE. They won't sit down or be quiet unless you don't smile until Christmas ... and that is a fact!
Now, that you are finally dealing with the problems of Bullying in high schools, due to the recent death of a boy named Carl Walker, who had been suffering from bullying for quite sometime without any help. I talked about this before school started and nobody wanted to hear it. We assume it is all better now becuse it is the first day of school. HA!
Well anyway, I wrote this and put it on a comment in a paper online, but it's mine!
Here you do. Enough CHIT CHAT!
This week the president is going to give the "work hard and get good grades" speech, and he should be telling them that bullying will not be tolerated anymore -- and then make it his top priority to the principals all over the country. Nobody said anything about my antibullying story last year or the year before. Still, there are outpourings of concern about bullying after someone dies, so I guess everything isn't all better -- or the problems we had last year are still a problem.Student bullying and violence need to be addressed first as much as studying and hard work because dead kids don't learn.
There are shootings in more schools than most people know about because if there are no dead bodies, much of it gets covered up by the principals before the 11 PM news.. Unfortunately, these shootings aren't anything new. There are school shootings almost every month that you don't hear about except for maybe the evening news. That's because the "Principal" wants it hushed up before the news get wind of it.
I think it was my substitute who got shot in the hand when I was off due to the fight. A couple of kids came in through an emergency exit and opened fire in the cafeteria. Nobody died, and the way I heard it ... only ankles, legs or hands were shot. Frankly, being from a bad neighborhood myself, I didn't think it was very newsworthy either.That is something I'm aware of every minute of the day
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I feel so much for him and his family because the school administrators have been acting like it is the teacher‘s fault. I hope all of these victims did not die in vain. Let's fine the parents and EDUCATE THEM TOO. Mandatory sessions would be a great idea if parents want their kids to come home from school. Most of them are simply trying to get attention because they are starving for it. When a student who wants attention so badly, like these kids with the guns, he is going to get it somewhere, and what place has the best audience? Or even the biggest? Class rooms, or, cafeterias.
They need to deal with the subject and have sessions and classes on anti-bullying NOW! Finally, people are listening. How can a teacher teach when the kids do whatever they want … because they don‘t know how to socialize anymore -- and parents are too tired to teach them to mind. They are not helping the problem, though, and the teachers are blamed when the teachers can't do anything with them either. I say mandatory classes in antibullying for the kids -- and fines for parents whose kids do not mind.
Bueno Suerte!
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