Corey,Daryl and Martez showing leadership support to our 5000 Role Models at New Heights Elementary.
These are (Top selling fundraiser students) at Carwise Middle School. They received backstage passes and signed autographed pictures of Corey and SGC Dance Kru!! We had a blast…
In order to fix the school bullying, I believe we must teach the students to love one another. Spread the PEACE by showing some LOVE…I had an Awesome time at Intercultural Academy…
WNYShares has a vision to encourage and work along side schools and local community organizations by providing funding and materials for programs that fall within the mission of WNYShares.
These groups can in turn designate their own limited funds for critical needs within their organizations.
WNYShares was conceived from a burden on the hearts of two men, Fred Caserta and his friend John Mika. Fred Caserta, the founder of Kingdom Bound Ministries, has gone home to be with the Lord, but the vision continues to grow.
Whitney Kropp told WNEM-TV she felt betrayed after some of her classmates at West Branch’s Ogemaw Heights High School suggested that her selection announced this month at the 800-student school was a joke. She said she had been picked on in the past, but it intensified afterward.
As word spread, however, community members rallied behind the sophomore. She’s expected appear at Friday’s homecoming football game. And The Detroit News reports businesses will buy her dinner, take her photo, fix her hair and nails, and dress her in a gown, shoes and a tiara for Saturday’s dance.
Whitney’s mother Bernice Kropp said the support has helped make a bad situation right in the community about 140 miles northwest of Detroit.”This was something that was really awful, could have ended awful, and because so many people came together, it just turned right around,” she said.
Jamie Kline, 35, started a Facebook support page, which drew hundreds of messages of encouragement. Shannon Champagne, 28, and another beauty salon worker offered their services and asked other businesses to do the same. And Donny Winter, an Ogemaw Heights graduate, made a YouTube video to show his support.
”Bullying cannot be resolved by silence, it has to be resolved by actually stating what’s happening and actually saying it’s wrong,” Winter said.
BULLYING
We Will Befriend You, We Will Defend You
What is bullying?
Bullying can be shoving, pushing, hitting or spitting. It can be name-calling, picking on, making fun of, laughing at or excluding someone. Lately, bullying has spread to the internet. Cyber-bullying can involve writing messages or sending pictures on-line that are hurtful to another.
Bullying can be defined as being exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more students (Olweus, 1993). There are three key components to all bullying situations.
1. There is always a power differential between the bully and the victim
that is acquired through physical size, strength or status.
2. There is intent to harm; the child who is bullied is put in the
position of oppression by the child who bullies.
3. Finally, bullying is a repeated rather than singular event.
Who are the bullies?
Bullies are male and female, young and old. Are you a bully? Take a quiz on Moodle to find out if you fit the profile.
What is the faculty doing to prevent bullying?
• First and foremost, we have to know about bullying. Teachers don’t always see it happening. Talk to you student and remind them that if they see or experience bullying to tell a teacher, principal, guidance counselor or the SRO (School Resource Officer).
• Secondly, Click here to read a pledge the faculty of Carwise Middle school has signed. We are committed to making our school a safe place for all students.
• Third, the faculty is charged with monitoring student behavior, helping students to identify bullying behaviors and trying to teach students what to do if they encounter it.
What can students do to stop bullying?
• Do NOT stand by and let someone be bullied! Stand up and say STOP!
• Don’t be embarrassed if you have been bullied — Tell a member of the faculty.
• Try to walk away, if you are being bullied. Don’t get yourself in trouble by fighting back.
• Do not take part in any bully-type behavior.
• Try to make new friends – look for someone who really needs a friend and BEFRIEND them!
• Even if you don’t know someone who is being bullied, DEFEND them!
What can parents do if they suspect their child is being bullied; or if they suspect their child is a bully?
• Teach your children that bullying is NOT O.K. It is not kids just being kids.
• Teach your children to respect other people’s feelings.
• Teach your children to be brave and to stand up for themselves and other students.
• Get involved with the school and listen closely to what your student has to say.
Educate yourself!
City officials are taking a stand to put a stop to bullying.
During a weekend rally at Lake Eola, they hoped to prevent the tragedies seen around the country with children taking their own lives, after being victims of bullies.
For some, the issue is personal, because they’ve also been bullied.
Experts said in half of the cases where someone intervenes, the bullying stops.
Rick Moore, a parent of a child who experienced bullying and pastor as a local church, offered advice to participants in a live chat with News 13.
”Ask your child questions about bullying. Do they know what to do? Do they know what not to do? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Early detection is critical,” wrote Moore.
Others shared stories of how they dealt with bullies as a child themself or for their own children.
”@ Rick, my son did tell his teacher the first time. They separated the two and figured the problem solved… As for your other post, I wholeheartedly agree with martha. Most bullies feel bad or inadequate about themselves again most likely learned at home. It does seem to start younger and younger,” wrote Julie.
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