Poll: Are Schools Doing Enough to Stop Hazing, Bullying?

Three plaintiffs were added to a lawsuit against Maine West High School that alleges coaches condoned hazing.

A lawsuit against Maine West High School alleges that students were hazed and bullied, sometimes at the behest of coaches of some athletic teams. A police investigation into a hazing incident this year led to charges against six students. During a “campus run” the boy’s teammates grabbed him, according to the lawsuit, tore off his underwear, held him down so he could not resist, grabbed his testicles and sodomized him with their fingers and other foreign objects. Des Plaines police told the Chicago Sun-Times that they sought felony charges in the case, but Cook County prosecutors disagreed. Prosecutors said there was not enough evidence for the more serious charges and settled on misdemeanors, the Sun-Times reported. Since that initial …

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Chicagoland Girl Scouts Stand Up to Bullying

"Bullied" author Carrie Goldman joins local Girl Scout Leaders in a discussion on bullying prevention.

Over the past few years, the issue of bullying has become entered the national dialogue in a major way, such as through anti-bullying efforts like the “It Gets Better Project”. The Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana held a small group discussion about bullying on Wednesday afternoon in Lake Forest between “Bullied” author Carrie Goldman, and Maria Wynne, the Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana CEO. The Girl Scout Research Institute recently found that young girls are increasingly being influenced by different forms of media, such as reality television, which can glorify cattiness and bullying. Their research showed 78-percent of girls who regularly watch reality television agreed that “gossiping is a …

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Brian

5:25 pm on Friday, October 12, 2012

Jose, you bring this up every time there is a story where you can relate it to kids not hitting their children. While I do understand if that's how you want to raise your children, as a parent, you can get results without resorting to hitting. My sister, me, my wife, her sister, and many of my friends were not hit as children. We were not and are not bullies, druggies, drunks..whatever. We grew …   more ›

10 Teachable Moments

Did you talk to your children about the recent bullying incident on a school bus in New York?

Academic Corner

When Teachers are Bullies

Is it a good idea to secretly videotape teachers?

We all know bullying is a problem in schools, but from a teacher? It sounds crazy, but teacher-bullies have recently been in the news quite a bit. Bullying students is awful enough, but in two of these cases the harassment was directed toward high school special education students. A special education teacher bullying students. Wow. Just…wow. In New Jersey, a 15-year-old student used his cell phone to record the teacher when nobody, not even his parents, believed he was being bullied. The video shows the special education teacher threatening the student, using profanity and speaking to the student in a degrading fashion. When confronted by the student’s father, the teacher said this was his way of motivating his students. Taking a page …

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Sully

4:46 am on Monday, May 13, 2013

Lennie, I'm sure you would require verification- you know, proof, before you would publish such accusations, correct? That would be the responsible thing to do (As well as ethical if you're now calling yourself a publisher).   more ›