Web site lets kids report school bullies incognito

Hoping to combat the "snitch" label that often leads to silent suffering, six Utah schools have introduced a Web site that allows students to anonymously report bullies.

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Group calls for zero tolerance of doctor bullies

Bullying doctors can make nurses afraid to question their performance, resulting in medical errors, according to a hospital group that announced new requirements for cracking down on intimidating behavior.

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Little `Barbie Brat' bullies become concern

Recess was Allie Long's favorite part of the day until the second grade, when some of her friends on the playground pressured her to join their whisper campaign against a classmate.

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Kids with ADHD more likely to bully

When her 5-year-old son showed up at the door with a black eye and a bloody cut on his head, Brooke Fike knew it was time to take on the bullies. For weeks, several boys at school had been swinging their backpacks into her son's head. One day they dumped a carton of milk over him during lunch.

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'Bullies' Team Name Draws Protests

Anti-bullying advocates are beating up on the name chosen for the new professional basketball team in Syracuse, N.Y. The Syracuse Bullies will play in the American Basketball Association beginning this fall.

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The method of creating conflict is provocation which bullies delight in because they know they can always coerce at least one person to respond in a manner which can then be distorted and used to further flame and inflame people. And so it goes on.

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Daniel Sebben was just 13 when the taunts began. Day after day, for the next three years, the Newmarket high school student faced homophobic slurs, insults and verbal abuse from a group of six boys.

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Now conservative offerings come with diagrams of farting cows -- bless Glenn Beck. No one is likely to have his worldview rocked by Sean Hannity's Deliver Us From Evil or his political eyes opened by Michelle Malkin's Unhinged.

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After years of delays, the Legislature appears poised to crack down on bullying among schoolchildren, with hearings beginning this week on nearly a dozen bills that would force local schools to respond more aggressively to instances of cruelty among students.

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In this economy, more people are in serious debt. Some bill collectors are getting more aggressive. Dianne McLeod admits her and her husband Stanley fell behind on their mortgage payments; but only after Stanley suffered a heart attack and was forced to give up his job.

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We've all known scenes like this from our school days...

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Vicariousness on the Net. Is it worth it? Part II

Some of you may know me from earlier this spring in my previous incarnation as Lilith40. Originally, I had joined NV in October,2008 but was only active with comments until spring of this year when I began to write articles and post seeds here.

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Belleville Beating Reveals The Sadness Of Being Stupid About Bullies

The sad truth about the Belleville student who was beaten on the bus is that he brought the attack upon himself by mishandling the situation. He thought that he was justified in sitting where he did and so he violated the bullies line in the sand.

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Parents were disgusted when they heard the news. Four students from Walker Middle School were accused of the unthinkable.

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LAS VEGAS -- The start of a new school year can stir anxiety among some students who fear an unavoidable confrontation with a bully. One student advocacy group is hoping to calm those fears through a new law and a series of training sessions for teachers and counselors.

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SHE is the teenager who refused to run scared from a gang of bullies who left her bruised and bleeding in a Manchester street. Now Stephanie North's courage in the face of harassment and intimidation has seen her hailed as Urban Hero of the Year 2009.

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One group of doctors is taking on bullying. They're coming out with some ideas on ways to halt the violence that 8 percent of kids say happens to them every day; another 7 percent say it happens every week.

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People Like to Hate... What do you hate the most?

It's incredibly stupid... the fact that people like to hate is. It's difficult to comprehend, but when there's a group of people together discussing what's happening in everyones' lives is that negativity tops the scale with hate topping it all - that's in my opinion anyway.

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Back in the 1990s, I did a physical on a boy in fifth or sixth grade at a Boston public school. I asked him his favorite subject: definitely science; he had won a prize in a science fair, and was to go on and compete in a multischool fair.

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Back in the 1990s, I did a physical on a boy in fifth or sixth grade at a Boston public school. I asked him his favorite subject: definitely science; he had won a prize in a science fair, and was to go on and compete in a multischool fair.

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The Hillsborough School district is about to make it easier for students to turn in bullies.

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I would expect nothing less from the liberal bastion of sodomites and the diversity cult from Kommiefornia.

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Four teenagers, no older than 15, are facing serious adult charges after Hillsborough Sheriff's Office investigators say they assaulted a 13-year-old student at Walker Middle School with a hockey stick and a broomstick

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A good 40 percent of bullies are women. Just the mention of women treating other women badly on the job seemingly shakes the women's movement to its core. It is what Peggy Klaus, an executive coach in Berkeley, Calif., has called "the pink elephant" in the room.

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The 13-year-old boy said the bullying had been going on for months. But he didn't say anything. Not to a teacher. Not to a coach. Not to his mother.

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So Michele Bachmann's version of history is "from another planet." Bobby Jindal, the Republican governor of Louisiana, is "chronically stupid." And Eric Cantor of Virginia, the second-ranking Republican in the House, is "busy lying constantly." That at least is ac …

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KESWICK, ONT. — The 15-year-old black belt thought he was doing his tormentor a favour when he elected to fight back with his weaker left hand.

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Eleven-year-old hangs himself with belt because of school bullying.

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SPRINGFIELD - He was just 11 years old, and they called him gay. They said he acted like a girl and bullied him. Girls, boys - anyone, it seemed - taunted Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover until he could take it no more.

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