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Bullying Prevention and the Challenge of Contempt

One of the great challenges in bullying prevention is addressing contempt. Contempt is a dehumanizing bias that individuals in the school environment, students and adults…

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The Bullying of a Future Supermodel: A Great Lesson for Kids

In the recent Apple TV+ documentary The Super Models, Cindy Crawford told how, as a high school student, she was teased and mocked by her…

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Solve Bullying Problems by Teaching About Bullying, Not Resilience or Empathy

Recently I listened to a presentation by a nationally recognized expert on cyberbullying in an event sponsored by a regional organization focused on kindness and…

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The 57 Bus – Great Description of Aggression

In honor of Banned Book Week, I though I’d mention a great line from the book “The 57 Bus” by Dashka Slater, a wonderful nonfiction…

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Why Bullying Investigations Fail Aggressors and Targets Alike

This will sound like a setup to a joke, so please bear with me. Two students walk into the principal’s office. One points at the…

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Everyone Has Their Part to Play in Bullying Prevention

The Rockaway Township School District in New Jersey recently settled with the parents of Mallory Grossman over its failure to take appropriate action to stop…

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Bullying Settlement Should Be a Wake-up Call for Educators

The parents of Mallory Grossman, a 12-year-old girl who died by suicide in 2017 after being bullied at Copeland Middle School in the Rockaway Township…

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Comprehensive Bullying Prevention Education is a Necessity

A reminder to any school principal who is planning bullying prevention education for the next school year: An effective program should include students, educators, and…

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Required Reading: “George” by Alex Gino

Given the Governor of Texas’s recent order to treat gender-affirming care as child abuse—which opens the door to investigating parents, teachers, doctors, and others involved…

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Students Have a Better Term for “Bullying”

In my work in bullying prevention, I’ve advocated for dropping the terms “bully” and “victim” to describe, respectively, the one who uses the aggressive behavior…

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