Bullying Prevention: Tips for Teachers, Principals, and Parents. Updated 10/2013 Approximately 32 percent of students report being bullied at school.
Bullied students are more likely to take a weapon to school, get involved in physical fights, and suffer from anxiety and depression, health problems, and mental health problems. They suffer academically (especially high-achieving black and Latino students). And research suggests that schools where students report a more severe bullying climate score worse on standardized assessments than schools with a better climate. This is all common sense to educators. But especially given that commitment to student safety, why do so many children experience bullying? In Principal magazine, elementary principal, now retired, James Dillon writes that in bullying prevention trainings, he asks participants to choose the one group they believe is most responsible for addressing school violence and bullying: parents, students, school, or community. Five Tips to Help Principals Prevent Bullying The Bottom Line.
Officials discuss cyber bullying, other social media crimes - News - Source Newspapers. By MATT DECEMBER Macomb County Sheriff Tony Wickersham talks about digital citizenship during a program at the Romeo Engineering and Technology Center on March 2.
The evening included a panel of experts on social media and Internet crimes. View and purchase photos Be careful what you say and do online or send with a phone: This seemed to be the prevailing message coming out of a parent awareness night focused on discussing digital citizenship. On March 2 a panel featuring Macomb County Sheriff Tony Wickersham, Detective Keith Harvey of the Macomb Area Computer Enforcement unit, William Harding of the Macomb County Prosecutor's Office and Cynthia Macoit-Zielinski of Chippewa Valley Schools discussed digital citizenship with dozens of parents from Romeo and the surrounding communities.
Wickersham said there are many issues facing children regarding their use of the Internet, cell phones and even video games that may land them in trouble. "If you are under the young age of 18, that is a crime. When cyberbullying hits home. Couple unfriends woman on Facebook, father murders them. 36-year-old Billy Payne Jr. and his girlfriend, 23-year-old Billie Jean Hayworth, recently unfriended 30-year-old Jenelle Potter on Facebook.
Jenelle was upset, but not as much as her 60-year-old father, Marvin "Buddy" Potter (pictured right). He was so angry when he learned about the unfriending that he and 38-year-old Jamie Lynn Curd (pictured left), who reportedly had romantic feelings for Jenelle, went out and murdered Payne and Hayworth last week. The couple is survived by an eight-month-old baby boy, who was found unharmed, in Hayworth's arms. The couple was shot in their home last Tuesday morning. The victims lived with Billy Payne Sr., who was the last person to see them alive; he reportedly saw Hayworth get up to feed the baby before he left for work at about 5:30 AM on January 31, 2012. About five hours later, when a former neighbor stopped by to pick up mail the family would save for him, Payne was found dead in his bedroom and Hayworth was found dead in the baby's room.