Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Bullying of teachers more damaging in online era

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The bullying that bus monitor Karen Klein endured on a ride home from an upstate New York school was painful and egregious, but also shows how student harassment of teachers and administrators has become more spiteful and damaging in the online era.

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Two Wolves Inside Me: video

Life is merely a series of choices. Where you are right now can all be linked back to every choice that you've made in your life to date.

Every day we all make countless choices and every single one of them counts. That is what this short movie is all about.


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Thursday, June 21, 2012

68 year old bus monitor bullied: Could all benefit from Restorative Practices/Justice? (see left page: click Restorative Practices/Justice)

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Bullied bus monitor thankful for support, pleads for threats to stop

Donations for bullied bus monitor soar past $500,000

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06/30/2012

Rochester Bus Bullies Receive Their Punishment

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For ten days, Andy's been reporting on the ongoing drama that's enveloped the life of Karen Klein, the 68-year-old grandmother and bus monitor who was ruthlessly bullied unto tears by a pack of Rochester 7th graders. A video of the abuse went viral, landed both Klein and one of the abuser's fathers on AC360, and led to an online donation campaign meant to provide Ms. Klein with a much-needed vacation. (The campaign has raised north of $640,000 and counting -- Klein says she'll use the money to "pay some bills" and donate to a Down's syndrome charity.) Now, the Rochester school district has meted out its punishment to Klein's abusers: One year suspension and 50 hours of community service.
From CNN:

"Following individual meetings this week with school and district administrators, each family waived their right to a hearing and agreed to one-year suspensions from school and regular bus transportation," the Greece Central School District said in a statement.
The students will be transferred to the district Reengagement Center, it said. Each will also be required to complete 50 hours of community service with senior citizens and must take part in a formal bullying prevention program.
It might be worth repeating: The offending 7th graders will be forced to perform community service with senior citizens. No doubt, the experience will prove enlightening for the boys -- but will the seniors get any say in this?

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Facebook prank by Florida teens leads to felony cyber bullying

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May 2, 2008 – The Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up for All Students Act requires schools in the state to adopt policies to discourage bullying in person and online or ...


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May 6, 2008 – Jeffrey Johnston was a "techno geek," a straight-A student and a vegetarian -- a teenager who loved computers, animals and his large family.


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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Finding Joy: 3:32 min. video

Helen Keller said, "The best and most beautifiul things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart." Some of the most beautiful things in life are also the most simplistic.



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Sunday, June 10, 2012

NJ bully's paralyzing punch nets $4.2M settlement

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RAMSEY, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey school district has agreed to pay $4.2 million to settle a lawsuit by a middle school student who was paralyzed when a known bully punched him in the abdomen.

The settlement between the Ramsey school district and the family of Sawyer Rosenstein, who had complained to the district about being bullied, was worked out over the past two months but not made public until last week.

The family's lawsuit alleged school officials knew or should have known the boy's attacker had violent tendencies and failed to comply with a state anti-bullying law, said the Rosensteins' attorney, Jeffrey Youngman. The boy had punched another student in the face on a school bus a year earlier, but the school kept no record of it or other attacks and the attacker was not subjected to escalating discipline, the suit said.

Three months before being punched, Rosenstein, then 12, emailed school officials to report he was being bullied and to ask for help.

"I would like to let you know that the bullying has increased," he wrote to his guidance counselor at the Eric Smith Middle School. "I would like to figure out some coping mechanisms to deal with these situations, and I would just like to put this on file so if something happens again, we can show that there was past bullying situations."

Sawyer was punched in the abdomen at school on May 16, 2006, dropping him to his knees. When he came home that day he complained of pain in his back but otherwise felt fine, his father, Joel Rosenstein, told The Record of Woodland Park.

Two days later, the seventh-grader let out a scream in his bedroom.

"We picked him up and called an ambulance," the father told the newspaper. "He hasn't walked since."

The blow had caused a clot in a major artery that supplies blood to his spine, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down from what his attorney described as an "incredibly rare" injury.

The Ramsey Board of Education released a statement Wednesday denying any wrongdoing and saying that it was the district's insurance carriers that decided to enter into the settlement and will pay it out.

"The district's character education and harassment/intimidation/bullying initiatives and reporting practices are leading edge," the statement said. "All programs in this area far exceed all of the criteria established by the state of New Jersey."

Both Youngman and the board said the settlement did not include any admission of liability or fault on the part of the district.

Sawyer Rosenstein, now an 18-year-old freshman majoring in communication at Syracuse University, told The Associated Press that he decided to talk about the case to let others who are bullied know that they can recover and to let would-be bullies know that violence can have serious consequences.

"I think I became something greater than I ever could have become without it," he said.

After he was paralyzed, he gave up his fledgling acting career and started attending a camp where he learned about space. He later started a space-oriented podcast and attended last year's final space shuttle launch with a media credential, which inspired him to study communication.

Youngman told The Associated Press "there is never enough money in the world that could compensate someone who is paralyzed."

But Youngman said Rosenstein has refused to "make this a story of 'woe is me.'"

"It is a story of triumph and moving on," he said.

The Rosensteins also settled a claim against the boy who attacked their son. Youngman said the terms were confidential.

New Jersey enacted a tough new anti-bullying law in 2011. Youngman said such laws are effective only if they are enforced and adequately funded.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

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Friday, June 1, 2012

Seven Wonders of the World video


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