Bullying and Ostracism
Bullying and Ostracism
Verbal and physical behaviors.
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11-Year-Old Hangs Himself after Enduring Daily Anti-Gay Bullying
On April 5, an 11-year old boy committed suicide as a
response to repeated bullying at school. The boy, who did not identify as gay,
was harassed daily with homophobic slurs.
The GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) website has posted
an article
about this tragic event. |
Facing Today | April 15, 2009 |
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A Boy the Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly (New York Times, March 24, 2008) The article, "A Boy the Bullies Love to Beat Up, Repeatedly," tells a powerful story of hate and exclusion in an Arkansas school and one family's decision to speak out against this violence. |
Facing Today | April 16, 2008 |
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A Class Divided 60 minutes A Class Divided is an expanded version of Eye of the Storm. In this documentary, Jane Elliott meets with her class to talk about the classroom experiment about discrimination she performed 15 years earlier and the effects it had on their lives. In addition, Jane Elliott is seen giving this lesson to employees of the Iowa prison system. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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An Interview with Matthew Shepard’s Mother In 1998, twenty-one year old Matthew Shepard was viciously murdered because he was gay. |
Facing Today | September 16, 2009 |
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Attacks against Asian Students in Philly School On December 3, 2009, twenty-six Asian students at South Philadelphia High School were assaulted both inside and outside the school by a large group consisting mostly of African Americans, Philly.com reports. |
Facing Today | December 16, 2009 |
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Boston Radio Talk Show Host Suspended for his Comments about Mexicans
According to the Boston Globe, "Jay Severin, the fiery right
wing talk show host on Boston's WTKK-FM radio station, was suspended yesterday
after calling Mexican immigrants "criminaliens,"
"primitives," "leeches," and exporters of "women with
mustaches and VD," among other incendiary comments. |
Facing Today | May 5, 2009 |
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Bullies and Their Enablers How should those who work with children - pediatricians, educators, parents and community members - respond to bullying behavior? In the article, "At Last, Facing Down Bullies (and Their Enablers)," Dr. Perri Klass reviews research that provides answers to this important question. |
Facing Today | June 9, 2009 |
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Bullying on the Rise in Lower Grades A recent Boston Globe article by Bella English reports that bullying, at least among girls, starts at an earlier age than one might think. Based on relatively new research on cruelty among girls, “it is clear that the use of friendship as a weapon begins as early as preschool.” Whether bullying among younger girls is new remains unclear; “ ‘I think what’s different is how uninhibited it [bullying] has become. |
Facing Today | March 17, 2010 |
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Coming Out in Middle School Benoit Denizet-Lewis reports in his New York Times Magazine article “Coming Out in Middle School” that more and more middle-school students are openly gay. “Just how they’re faring in a world that wasn’t expecting them – and that isn’t so sure a 12-year-old can know if he’s gay – is a complicated question that defies simple geographical explanations,” Denizet-Lewis writes. |
Facing Today | September 30, 2009 |
| Decision-Making in Times of Injustice Lesson 12 | Lesson Plan | March 26, 2009 |
