Bullying

  A Cherry Hill, New Jersey father suspected something wasn’t quite right at his autistic son’s school.  What he uncovered has started an Internet campaign to stop abusive teachers from bullying students. On Friday, Stuart Chaifetz posted a video on YouTube in which he said that he was shocked when he was told by school officials his ... read more »

A Missouri teen has been charged with first degree assault after he poured gasoline on a 13-year-old boy and lit him on fire. On April 15, Joseph Gardner, 17, allegedly threatened the victim that if he didn’t go along with the violent act that he would pummel him to death and kill his family. According ... read more »

Middle school students at a Covington, Kentucky school are using the power of the Internet to combat it’s use to spread hate and meanness among fellow students. A teacher at Woodland Middle School, Jason Bowman, came up with the idea after observing how students love to use Facebook, Twitter and other social media, and how ... read more »

What has long been suspected has been given official credence. Experts at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law agreed that children who suffer bullying – whether at school or on the Internet – are more prone to long spells of depression and suicidal thoughts.  Dysthymia, or long-term depression (LTD), is characterized ... read more »

When Julio Artuz complained of being bullied, nobody, not even his parents believed him. Why? His bully was his teacher. Julio is a 15 year old special needs student enrolled in Bankbridge Regional School in Gloucester County, New Jersey, where he claimed his teacher was insulting and bullying him on a regular basis. Finding no ... read more »

A young Wisconsin boy, age 6, was accused by one of the boy’s playmate’s mothers of sexually assaulting her daughter by sticking his finger in her anus. The little girl denied that the boy had done that, but the mother reportedly moved forward with her relentless plight to have the boy prosecuted for rape. The ... read more »

Peer pressure and school bullies are just two of the many issues that face our young children in school these days. Peer pressure alone can make our children do things they wouldn’t normally do. Couple that with the peer pressure coming from the biggest school bully, times five and you have the mix for a ... read more »

After being told repeatedly his 14-year-old special needs daughter was lying about being bullied by her teachers, her father, Brian (whose last name was withheld), outfitted his daughter with a hidden microphone to record the verbal abuse. He was shocked to hear her teacher, Christie Wilt, and the teacher’s aide, Kelly Chaffins, making offensive comments ... read more »

A bus ride home in Orange County, Florida from Evans High school resulted in a 14 year old girl being cut in the face and arm. After getting in a confrontation and brutal fight with another female student from the school. “Two girls were fighting on the bus, then the girl start cutting her with ... read more »

A new poll on internet behavior reports that over half of all teens and young adults claim to have been bullied or harassed online. In an Associated Press/MTV poll of 1,355 people between the ages of 14 and 24, 56 percent of respondents  said they had “experienced abuse” through digital media, up from 50 percent ... read more »

According to police, a group of nearly two dozen Vermont teenagers were involved in a sexting ring which circulated indecent photos and videos of female classmates. The Milton Independent, which first broke the story, reported that five boys admitted viewing nearly 40 images and three videos (many of which were sent by cell phone). Milton Police say two of the five ... read more »

Minnesota’s largest school district is under federal investigation after allegations of bullying for reasons of sexual preference. Anoka-Hennipen’s district 11 admitted on Wednesday that the US departments of Justice and Education launched their investigation in November of 2010. In a statement released to the press, the district said they’ve been having “collaborative discussions” with federal ... read more »

Policy 5.45 has sparked significant backlash with a group known as Parents Voice. The policy is Burnaby School District’s new initiative to battle homophobia and protect staff and students from homophobic bullying and harassment. The parents group criticizes the policy for infringing on their right to educate their children according to their own morality, and ... read more »

A frustrated Milwaukee mom recently turned to help from a local news team after school officials failed to do anything about the daily bullying of her four-year-old daughter on the school bus. Ms. Edwards says that, despite contacting the school several times,  her daughter arrives home daily with bruises, scrapes, sores, and has had her ... read more »

A 14-year-old Oakland boy, accompanied by two teenaged girls entered the Oak Knoll Market, owned by Dong Suk Kang, 57, on Tuesday. The San Francisco chronical reports that the boy had already been banned from the store. On previous occasions he had knocked over display cases, harassed employees and refused to pay for items he ... read more »