Eric Scott, filling in for Jim this morning, was discussing kids going back to school this week and what you think about the anti-bullying laws in NJ and whether or not they are too ambiguous.
While bullying continues to be a major problem, a special conference will bring educators together to figure out ways to combat it once and for all. New Jersey's new Anti-Bullying law is one of the strongest in the entire nation.
Anti- bullying has become all the rage in New Jersey. In fact I can’t think of anything that gets us more enraged than hearing of someone who’s been or is being bullied. We hear of the suicides of Tyler Clementi and Lennon Baldwin and ask ‘How can this happen?
Several charges have been filed in the case of 15-year-old Lennon Baldwin, a Morristown High School freshman who committed suicide in March because he was apparently overwhelmed by alleged persistent bullying from three students.
Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, the lead sponsor of New Jersey's Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, will be hosting two public screenings next week of the movie "Bully," the first feature documentary film to show bullying affects the victims, the perpetrators and silent witnesses
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New Jersey drew rave reviews from child advocates across the nation when it enacted a tough anti-bullying law. The statute faced constitutional questions because the state didn't provide funding for it and it was poised to be nullified, but yesterday both the State Senate and the General Assembly passed legislation that is being called a legislative fix. Earlier this month, Governor Chris Christie
With changes coming To NJ’s Anti-Bullying measures…such as a million dollar set-aside for those districts that don’t have enough funds to implement it…do you feel we still place too much of the burden on our schools to parent our kids...