Bullying

GLENOLDEN, Pa. — A suburban Philadelphia school district is making extra counselors available to students a day after a sixth-grader was taken off life support following injuries suffered in a fight.

A former Toms River Regional School District Attorney questions a recent decision by the State Civil Rights Division Director that sides with a ruling that said the district failed to protect a student from bullying because of his perceived sexual orientation.

The Toms River school district failed to take reasonable actions to stop the persistent bullying of the student based on his perceived sexual orientation more than a decade ago.

In an effort to obtain LGBT equality across New Jersey and to put an end to bullying, a new coalition is being formed in the state which will be made up of LGBT, civil rights, labor, progressive and faith organizations.

Vulnerable youth making the transition from home to college now have a place to turn at Rutgers University.  Administrators and student leaders joined with the Clementi family today to announce the opening of the Tyler Clementi Center, named after the former Rutgers student who committed suicide after his roommate used a web cam to spy on him.

Rutgers University is announcing a center named for the student who killed himself after his roommate used a webcam to see him kissing a man.

In the war on Christmas, the non-Christmas contingent will give no quarter. Yes, Virginia, there actually is a group that’s upset over the religious nature of Christmas carols, that some are calling it a form of bullying. Bullying as though their children are being forced to sing songs about the birth of Jesus Christ...

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Some want to confer folk hero status on the mom of a 9 year old girl who was being harassed reportedly by 2 boys at her school and on their school bus. Some, like me, would rather she had gone to the kid’s parents herself and handled it that way...

Crazy to even ask, but in an age where zero-tolerance policies abound, the question is appropriate. Why should it be that the victims of bullies be punished along with the perpetrators…when all the victims are doing is standing up for themselves...