Anti-Bullying

You may not know who Handles Franklin is, but if you see him on a basketball court you’ll never forget him. The Harlem Globetrotter will bring the team’s “ABCs of Bullying Prevention” to 1,500 students at five schools in Cape May County, New Jersey on Wednesday, June 5 and Thursday, June 6.

Fresh on the heels of a Quinnipiac Poll that says New Jersey residents disapprove of the huge Rutgers payouts  comes the idea of spending more of our money at Rutgers.

NJ has the nations toughest anti bullying laws. We’ve got a Governor who has been accused of bullying at his town hall meetings.  We’ve got a state university that has fired a coach after a video came out of him abusing his players and uttering gay slurs. At that same university a student jumped off the George Washington Bridge after being secretly recorded in a gay encounter by his roommate. Read

Rutgers has had two major homophobic bullying incidents in the past 3 years going back to the suicide of Tyler Clementi.

While we don't promote violence on the Dennis and Judi show, every so often it's nice to see a bully get a taste of their own medicine.

October has been named “National Bullying Prevention Month” It’s an attempt to raise awareness to bullying in school but if you’re already dealing with this as up to half of class is, then you already know. The questions are what can you do and what can be done in the school?

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...

You don't go very long in between times of reading stories about anti-bullying. Even adults now are claiming that they are being bullied.  We've gotten ourselves so crazy with protecting people from bullying, that we don't even know what the parameters for bullying really are anymore. The following is a story that may put it all in perspective for all of us.

You may not hear a lot about adult bullying, but it is a problem. There are bullies at work, at home, on the internet and in social cliques.

New Jersey education officials now have a handle on just how much bullying happens in the state's public schools.