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9 face murder charges in after-school brawl
It started out as a fistfight. Two girls -- emboldened by bystanders alternately yelling out support or derision -- went toe to toe in the residential street before they tumbled to the ground. It only got uglier from there. A two-minute cell phone video shot by a witness last week in Hephzibah, Georgia, captures the chaos as others join the fray, many wielding bats, pipes and fists. The driver of a black car targets two young men...
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Muslim boy teased with ‘bomb’ jokes as US teacher calls him terrorist
A 12-year-old Muslim boy accused his teacher of targeting him for his religion by calling him a “terrorist” in front of his peers in the US state of Texas, prompting school authorities to probe the incident. Waleed Abushaaban, a 7th grade student in First Colony Middle School has been the butt of “bomb” jokes and ridicule from his fellow classmates after his teacher made the careless crack, a local TV KHOU.com reported. The teacher allegedly made the comment when her class...
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Is it too late to stop the trolls trampling over our entire political discourse?
Political debate, a crucial element of any democracy, is becoming ever more poisoned. Social media has helped to democratise the political discourse, forcing journalists – who would otherwise simply dispense their alleged wisdom from on high – to face scrutiny. Some take it badly. They are used to being slapped affectionately on the back by fellow inhabitants of the media bubble for their latest eloquent defence of the status quo.
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Wisconsin City to Fine Parents If Child Is a Bully
Police in one small Wisconsin city are going to new lengths to prevent bullying: fining parents if their child is caught picking on others. The new ordinance in Shawano means parents of children acting as “bullies” could be fined hundreds of dollars if they don’t intervene, according to NBC affiliate NBC26 in Green Bay.
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Ex-altar boy who killed himself mourned in church where he was molested
Brian Gergely, who died at 46, battled alcoholism from the age of 10, amid what a grand jury concluded was widespread rape and abuse in Pennsylvania. Brian Gergely’s body lay at his funeral mass just feet from where, in the same church, his revered priest had shattered his innocence and trust by molesting him when he was 10 years old. “The root of all his problems was what happened to him as a kid,” said John Luther, a friend and former schoolmate of Gergely’s at a Catholic elementary school in the small Pennsylvania town of Ebensburg.
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Forget anonymity: Internet trolls are more abusive when using their real names, study finds
Many have blamed the ability to remain anonymous for social media’s widespread bullying problems. But it turns out those who hide behind screen names aren’t necessarily the most abusive kind of Internet trolls, according to a new study. Lea Stahel, a sociology researcher at the University of Zurich, and a team of researchers set out to find evidence that online anonymity encouraged the kind of abusive behaviour we often see during social media “firestorms” – when a group of people gang up and hurl hundreds of rude, vulgar and sometimes violent remarks at their targets.
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Bolivia opens 'anti-imperialist' school to counter US
Bolivian President Evo Morales opens a new military defence academy, which he says will offer courses to counter the influence of the US in the developing world.
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Harsh Parents Raise Bullies--So Do Permissive Ones
The consensus is clear: mean parents make mean kids—and the victims of mean kids. Several recent studies confirm an association between strict parenting styles and children's likelihood of both being a bully and being bullied. Some work also points to a more surprising association—permissive or neglectful parenting might create bullies, too.
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Ohio child cancer survivor kills herself over bullying
The relentless bullying became too much to handle for an 11-year-old girl with a "crooked" smile, her mother said. At 3 years old, Bethany Thompson was diagnosed with a brain tumor and battled through radiation treatments. Though cancer-free since 2008, treatment caused nerve damage that changed Bethany's smile. That, and her curly hair, led to bullying, said Bethany's mother, Wendy Feucht.
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What Stephen King Can Still Teach Us About Bullying
There’s a certain aggressive tone somebody can take that will send me reeling far back into the past, guaranteeing that a hell of a fight is about to occur — or equally likely, that I’ll become frozen in panic until the moment has passed, and then spend days wallowing in anger and deep shame for not standing up for myself.
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'Pharma bro' Shkreli suspended from Twitter for harassment
Former U.S. drug executive Martin Shkreli, dubbed the "pharma bro" and vilified for raising the price of a lifesaving drug by 5,000 percent, was suspended by Twitter on Sunday for harassing a female journalist.
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Principal shaves head after bald boy is teased in school
An 11-year-old boy wanted to be strong for his cancer-stricken grandfather, so he decided to shave his own head. But when his classmates made fun of his new hairstyle, the school’s principal took matters into his own hands. Tim Hadley has been a principal at Pekin Middle School for the past three years. But this week, the principal taught his students an unforgettable lesson on acceptance.
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Student forced to pee in bucket wins $1.25M in lawsuit
A school district was order to pay $1.25 million to student who was forced to urinate in a bucket after she was denied a bathroom break.
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Bullied daughter Julia Derbyshire 'just wanted to be loved'
The father of a teenage girl who tried to hang herself after being bullied online said she "just wanted to be loved and she wanted to be accepted". Adrian Derbyshire, who shared photos of his dying daughter Julia in hospital to raise awareness, said abuse began after she spoke about her sexuality. Instead of celebrating her 18th birthday last week, "I ended up putting roses on her grave", he said.
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Trump is greenlighting the harassment of transgender kids
In the weeks since President Donald Trump’s administration revoked federal guidance aimed at protecting transgender students, school has been a nightmare for 17-year-old Lyle Howard. “Ever since Trump rescinded the guidance, I’ve been harassed and bullied and yelled at in the halls,” said Howard, a sophomore at Ozark High School in southwest Missouri. “I have been declared not a person. I am an ‘it.’”
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The Yik Yak app is officially dead
The anonymous social app is finally shutting down.
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Ten-Year Trends in Bullying and Related Attitudes Among 4th- to 12th-Graders
Bullying is a significant public health concern, and it has received considerable attention from the media and policymakers over the past decade, which has led some to believe that it is increasing. However, there are limited surveillance data on bullying to inform our understanding of such trends over the course of multiple years. The current study examined the prevalence of bullying and related behaviors between 2005 and 2014 and explored whether any such changes varied across schools or as a function of school-level covariates.
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Twice as many children have thoughts about suicide and self-harm as 10 years ago, study says
“13 Reasons Why,” the wildly popular but controversial Netflix show about teen suicide, has touched off a debate among mental health professionals and advocates about media portrayals of suicide and what might be considered “triggering” for teen viewers. And a new study shows that those fears are justified. According to data collected from 32 children’s hospitals across the country, the number of children and teenagers with thoughts of suicide and self-harm being admitted to hospitals is more than two times that of 2008.
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'Why don't you kill yourself,' bullies urged 12-year-old who committed suicide
The parents of Mallory Grossman, a 12-year-old Rockaway Township girl who committed suicide this summer, said at a Tuesday press conference their daughter was bullied in person and in the form of texts and social media messages from other girls at Copeland Middle School over the course of months.
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12-year-old girl commits suicide after teacher harassed her for period stains
A 12-year-old girl in Tamil Nadu, India, has committed suicide after her teacher shouted at and shamed her for period stains on her school uniform. According to the girl’s mother, the girl had gotten her period while in class, and was unprepared because she had had just begun puberty two months prior, Tamil Nadu publication the News Minute reported.
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