No Bully Policy at Philadelphia Schools
Philadelphia Schools has a "just say no" policy, when it comes to school bullies and other related negative student behavior.
Approximately, two thirds of all deaths among children and adolescents in the United States are the result of injury-related causes. These include motor vehicle crashes, unintentional injuries, homicide and suicide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 126 students committed a school-associated homicide or suicide between 1994 and 1999. Of these students, 28 committed suicide, of which eight intentionally injured others immediately before killing themselves. None of these students were involved in gangs.
The suicides, now referred to as "bullycide", were attributed to school-associated violence, including bullying and other such social stressors. Though the 126 students may seem small for a national statistic, this is only the tip of the iceberg. It does not address the number of students who develop substance abuse and psychological problems due to being bullied and harassed at school - some for many years from elementary through high school by the same individual(s).
"Pediatrics", Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, reported in its May 5, 2004, issue that the rise of obesity and overweight in school-aged children is associated with "many negative social and psychological ramifications." Peer aggression is at the top of the list.
To work toward eliminating this rising national problem in their schools, Philadelphia schools developed a policy that prohibits anyone from bullying or seriously threatening any member of the school community during school hours and coming to and from school. This includes:
• Repeated threats;
• Threats of bodily injury;
• Physical or psychological intimidation;
• Extortion of any type;
• Fighting or other acts/threats of violence;
• Repeatedly posting information about another individual without his/her consent on the Internet, bulletin boards, school walls, individual's personal belongings, or any other location - whether it is during school hours or not; and
• Harassment for any reason, but especially due to race, gender, disability, language or physical characteristic.
Besides school personnel, Philadelphia schools have enlisted the help of the students and their parents. They have set up a Bully Hotline that is staffed 24 hours a day for students or parents to report school-related abuse. The hotline serves over 175 languages through a telephonic interpretation service. Philadelphia schools promise to act on a reported problem within 24 hours of receiving the hotline complaint. For some issues, callers may receive a follow-up telephone call to ensure the situations were satisfactorily resolved.
Philadelphia schools created flyers in nine different languages that describe the school policy against these negative behaviors, the Bully Hotline, and instructions for non-English language individuals to access the hotline. The eight non-English languages are the most frequently encountered in Philadelphia schools and represent over 85 percent of their "English as a Second Language" students.
The flyers were sent to the parents of students enrolled in their schools. Additionally, they asked parents and community groups to further distribute the flyers throughout the city.
Philadelphia schools are truly concerned about the safety and well-being of its students. They believe that all students have a right not to be bullied or harassed. With their "no bully" policy and the hotline, they are well on their way to prevent, address and eliminate intimidation and harassment of any student for any reason.
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Patricia Hawke is a staff writer for Schools K-12, providing free, in-depth reports on all U.S. public and private K-12 schools. Patricia has a nose for research and writes stimulating news and views on school issues. For more on Philadelphia schools visit http://www.schoolsk-12.com/Pennsylvania/Philadelphia/index.html
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Can you be suspended, expelled, or suffer legal trouble for liking a page on Facebook?
I have been debating this back and forth with my parents for a while now. I recently liked a page on Facebook that pokes fun at the city i live in. Unfortunately they have recently been targeting specific people in my school and making fun of them in rather rude and vulgar ways. I realize that some of the content could be considered cyber bullying. I was confronted by my parents about the page which they found from god knows were and was yelled at to dislike the page at once because i could get me into big trouble with my school and the law if i did not. I explained to them that they were probably exaggerating as i had not commented,liked, or left any kind of cyber footprint on the page. All i did was simply like it. They yelled at me about how wrong it was. I found it funny because they didn't know anybody in the pictures and I only recognized one. I did remove the page from my Facebook but I told them that nothing would have happened either way and they are blowing the facts way out of proportion in regards to my relation with this page. They insisted that the page will be taken down very shortly and that the "likers" of the page would be punished severely. Hers the thing. I looked up ours schools cyber bullying policy. It stated that anybody involved in the act of cyber bullying, the distribution, or accessing cyber bullying content will be subject to punishment. This is a very gray description. I know i was not involved in the act of cyber bulling and i know i have never distributed any of this contend. Whats left is the accessing. The Facebook page in which I am referring to is an open page. Anybody and their mother has access to it. So the rules state that anybody who has ever seen the page is subject to punishment? what if they just happen to stumble upon it? Or clicked like not knowing what the page actually entailed? I tried to think of ways in which this rule could logically be enforced. It is possible that the distributor was getting payed by accessors for this type of content. In that case the rule would make sense. But in the context given its absurd to label all "accessors" guilty of cyber bullying. I figured that the rule was in place so that the school had the ability to be flexible and if they truly don't think you were involved they could drop it if they wanted but they can't go the other way and just start making up rules. In all i don't believe anything would have happened to me. I think the wost case scenario would be somebody in the disciplinary sector of my school would have had a talk with me or something. But to go as far as saying that i would be suspended, expelled, or even arrested for liking this page is insane to me. But i will leave the question to you invisible audience. Do you believe its true that i could suffer these repercussions for simply liking a page on facebook?
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A-B student
honor student
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Please help whole school hates me?
Ok I am in my first week of boarding school . It was all going well until around about wednesday . I was sitting a a table for dinner when this girl said " im not a snob but you can tell those people went to a state school"
Later that evening i stupidly told the girls it was about about it . This other girl mary who was there
Agreeded with me. Anyway someone then confronted the girl who said it and mary was like I was there she never said it. As te week has gone on apparently I have being saying al sorts of horrible things such as goup x hate y . When they dont . No one bothered to tell me this i just found out last night . But whenever i walk into a room people shut up whenever I sit down to eat people move . Whenvev i suggested i did something with someone i got an im busy and a slam in the door. I cant sleep eat i feel like crying the whole time and feel physicaly sick.
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how do i get back into college after being bullied?
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i have been going to college for about 2 years i finished my first course over a year and then i went onto my second course but didnt pass due to bad attendance because of being bulled by students so i was to worried about going and now my self esteem has totally evaporated and even worse i applied for a new course there but they refused me cause of bad attendance which was unfair and put be on a pathways for 3 months to monitor my attendance so i have just started to day my FIRST day there and i have been bullied i cant believe it this place is meant to helping with my confidence and it isnt now im thinking about not going back there but i really want them to accept me into college again on the course i applied for but how do i do that and make them listen to me im really scared about my future please help me im going into despair
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What needs to be fixed about Wiki Answers?
I find there is a lot wrong with that site. They claim to have a zero tolerance anti-bullying policy, but it doesn't really help bullies. They pretend everything they dislike is cyberbullying and use the rule to bully those they disagree with. The site is horribly biased. You cannot ask a question about stopping rampant gayness in society, getting abortion outlawed, nor how to stop race-mixing in society without getting banned. I could name off some of the worse, most abusive supervisors on there that there are.
They have such a sick culture and are unable to accept humor against them nor laugh at themselves. The "bullying" rule is used to lock down all dissent, all non-PC speech, and all criticisms. You can obey the letter of every rule and still get banned at whim. Supervisors regularly hijack questions and put off-topic, PC garbage in them. Wiki Answers doesn't exist to help you understand things, but to push a sick, twisted, abusive social agenda.
Now, what are everyone else's gripes about them?
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Being harrased online for being fat and not pretty, who can help me?
Some one saw my facebook and stole my pics and put them in a forum that talks about "funny" stuff, with that in mind the thread was ugly people and they posted my pics there with link to my name and now when i google myself those offensive photoshp images of me come up..... total of them is four and two of them were deleted by the image host after i contacted them but the other two are still there and the webmaster of the hosting site ignored my emails.....
What can i do or those pcs will eventually dissapear after some months and some new images coming into google? I am not pretty nor skinny so dont harras me but i feel very sad because of ehat they did to me.
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i couldn't find trans-phobic bullying in my schools anti-bullying policy?
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just looking for your opinions on this. Thanks.
-Emma x
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I need a good comeback because im running out, there are these guys that keep bothering me like your so stupid, and other things and when i say some thing mean to them they say they are going to tell the principal because we have a no bullying policy, but i dont see anything wrong with what i said so heres the conversation which i think is really reallystupid because they purposly get me in trouble.
What why dont you have your binder
Teacher yells at me
What the heck is your problem i have my binder you idiot,
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Ooh ur bullying im gonna tell,
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Do you agree with the pro-bully policy at Cade Middle School in Victoria, Texas?
Is it right to punish the victim?
accusing a victim of "fighting" for attempting to defend himself from attack IS a pro-bully policy
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This boy has always taken the mick out of me but its got more serious?
Lets get one thing straight he doesn't like me. He takes the mick out of me all the time. Im 13 in year nine. I'm with him for technology and were doing woodwork. Last week he got a huge wooden ruler and whacked me about the head with it getting harder and harder while his friends laughed. I normally say stuff back to him but it seems to attract a crowd. I've been bullied before and I'm trying to stick up for myself more this year. I don't get on well with my tutor and I recently reported one this girls who attacked me but everything's fine with that and we made up. All I was trying to do when he whacked me was not cry. That's one thing I know I mustn't do. My best friend normally helps me bear it but she's moving to Essex on Friday. I have tech tomorrow and I'm really scared. Please help me what should I do?
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