As a culture, we are focusing new attention on childhood bullying and harassment. As we watch children being crushed by bullying, we often feel powerless. No more! There are ways to stop bullying, based on decades of research.
There is little need to describe why people want to stop childhood bullying. Youth who bully frequently during adolescence are more likely to be aggressive and to have criminal records in adulthood. Bullied children may grow up with diminished self-confidence and a sense of isolation and helplessness.
The Stop Bullying Now interventions are based on the work of many researchers in bullying prevention, including Norway's Dan Olweus, England's Smith and Sharp, the USA's Dorothea Ross, Canada's Wendy Craig and Debra Pepler, Australia's Ken Rigby, and on social worker Stan Davis's forty years of experience with children, families, and schools.
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"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college she attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world." -- Eleanor Roosevelt |
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"In gentleness and compassion, we tell what we know to be true." -- From a prayer preceding staff bullying prevention training at Holy Angels School in Delaware, August 2005. |
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"When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?" -- Eleanor Roosevelt |
The links on this site will lead you through an exploration of interventions that work to reduce bullying in schools and to reduce the harm that bullying can do.
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The Illinois State Board of Education's report [dated March 1, 2011 School Bullying Prevention Task Force Report] states, inter-alia, as follows:
So, what do these findings mean for school-based bullying programming in North America? These mixed results suggest that, although school-based and school-wide bullying prevention efforts can be effective, success in one school or context is no guarantee of success in another. Indeed, given the pioneering work that Dan Olweus has done in the area of bullying (e.g., Olweus, 1993a), it is not surprising that almost half of the programs included in the meta-analyses above were based on the OBPP (Olweus, 1993a) which, despite many successful trials in Scandinavian countries, has not yet demonstrated consistent efficacy within schools in North America (Bauer et al., 2007). Researchers are only beginning to understand the factors that contribute to this variation in outcomes across schools and across countries. Indeed, there is no single, large-scale randomized clinical trial of a school-wide bullying prevention program, highlighting the need to conduct rigorous randomized trials in this area.
Why are whole-school approaches to reducing bullying relatively ineffective? It is our contention that anti-bullying programs are struggling for four critical reasons. First, most anti-bullying programs are not well grounded in a guiding theoretical framework that would inform program development and evaluation. Second, most fail to direct interventions at the social ecology that promote and sustain bullying perpetration, such as peers and families. Third, many of these programs do not address the changing demographics of communities and fail to incorporate factors such as race, disability, and sexual orientation. Finally, many packaged programs are not integrated into curriculum, but are seen as “add-on” programs, and therefore are not sustained over time.
http://www.wct-law.com/CM/Custom/3-1-11%20Task%20Force%20Report%20to%20General%20Assembly.pdf
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A Sikh Colaoition's report and recommendation:
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A Year Two Assessment
of Chancellor’s Regulation A-832 Implementation
in New York City Public Schools, 2009-2010
| By the Numbers Our survey of 198 teachers and staff members from 117 schools city-wide suggests that, although some progress is being made in the employment of Chancellor’s Regulation A-832, city schools still have a long way to go to fully implement the Regulation. For example, even relatively simple requirements, like appointing a Respect for All liaison for each school or putting up a Respect for All poster in schools, have often been ignored. We find it troubling that the DOE is not fulfilling even the most basic requirements of its own regulation. |
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| Poem By H Singh Dedicated to Vijay Singh, aged 13, who hung himself at home in Manchester, after being bullied at school. |
THE BULLY Racist ruffian, low-down scum Foul mouthed thug do you think its fun To beet up a kid who's half your size? Knock his turban and punch his eyes He gets good grades and it makes you sick turban-head's clever and you're so thick. You push and punch and steal his lunch You swing your fist his nose goes crunch Bleeding Paki! Bloody Paki! Swear a lot then steal his money Grab his arms - push him to the wall Punch! Crunch! He takes the fall Kick! Spit! Watch him crawl Walk away from his crying call. Lessons start at the school from hell Classroom's more like a prison cell Sitting in his blood stained clothes Tears in his eyes and a busted nose Bully boys don't stop their taunting No teacher saw his daily haunting No teacher said you're a lion Singh Be BRAVE, be STRONG but never give in School bell rings:"Bye-Bye friends I ain't coming to hell again!" Running home as fast as he can No one knows his secret plan Up the stairs for freedom call He escapes from his body walls Free at last from the violence Hangs himself in deathly silence. Where he ends we begin Bullies won't kill another Singh Unite as CHILDREN make the change Don't let things stay the same We want freedom - no more crime We want freedom all the time No more Singhs will die this way Unite as CHILDREN - fight them today! CHILDREN UNITE IT'S TIME TO FIGHT THE BULLY BOYS THE RACIST NOISE DON'T LIVE IN DREAD TELL THE TEACHER INSTEAD YOU'RE NOT ALONE LET YOUR TROUBLES BE KNOWN |
UNITED SIKHS Legal Team Testifies at Hearing on Bullying Prevention
http://www.sikhnet.com/news/sikhs-white-house-conference-bullying
http://www.pascack.k12.nj.us/70271919141818/lib/70271919141818/Bullying_Statistics.htm