Youth More Likely to Be Bullied at Schools With Anti-Bullyin

Sep. 12, 2013 — Anti-bullying initiatives have become standard at schools across the country, but a new UT Arlington study finds that students attending those schools may be more likely to be a victim of bullying than children at schools without such programs.

The findings run counter to the common perception that bullying prevention programs can help protect kids from repeated harassment or physical and emotional attacks.
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 203337.htm

If you have a kid that is a bully, you have failed as a parent, your child is not socialized enough to go out in public without you, that simple. I think kids that are found to be bullies should be sent home to their parents for more socialization or training. Pretty simple, bully and get kicked out, not the school or the other kids' problem. Make that parent buy their own private schooling for their little future criminal (or president).

Bullying is a product of poor parenting or mental disease. Some moderate amount of taunting is part of growing up, we all went through it.

Bullying has nothing to do with schools. They don't have the skill, capacity or roll to do anything about it.

Then again, many of today's kids will likely be future soldiers, so perhaps now is a good time for them to thicken their skin.

What's next, anti-rape programs in prisons (the college alternative for 5% of those American kids)?

Bullying?
Or preparing people to live in society? If you ridicule someone for being dirty and smelly is it bullying or will it encourage them to clean themselves up and help them later in life?
If you pick on someone for their stutter, does it ruin them? Or do they work on it like James Earl Jones and make a career out of their voice.
Thin line between bullying and constructive criticism.

The fine line is whether something is a crime.

Now my assumption is that when a kid is violent at school and gets caught, that they get removed from the student population and sent back to their parents for retraining. If they have assaulted another student, don't the police get called and an investigation started? If this is not the case, didn't the school essentially design the bullying.

Seems pretty simple to me, violent kids get thrown out of school. Now if we are talking about name calling, this is part of growing up. We were all taught the mantra, sticks and stones will break bones, but names will never hurt you...unless you are a wussy.

Plus this relates right back to our national shootings. I would assume that violence will get worse when we have anti bullying programs for adults too, esp since we can see it happens with kids, and animals, etc.

I was bullied mentally but not physically in junior high so one day I had enough and beat up one of my bullies. My social status rose among my classmates and the teachers privately told me good job. Nowdays I would have been expelled. Later became friends with my junior high bully in high school. And just had drinks with him a few months ago.

Back in the late 70's I attended West Jeff Jr. and these incidents were often settled by Mr Teasley (red headed leprechan bastard) with a big ass paddle. I got it ONCE for tossing an eraser at a friend in class and I still remember that pain. My parents were never notified because there was no need back then, they expected teachers to keep us in line. I saw more than one bully change his tune after meeting that paddle.

I do not see if they are talking raw #'s or on a percentage basis.

http://www.newser.com/story/180603/scho ... -year.html

"NEWSER) – "Intentional" injuries received at school send some 90,000 kids to the ER each year, a new study shows. There's only been a slight decrease in that figure over the past decade, in what researchers see as a disappointment. "With so much emphasis on school safety and bullying now, we expected a bigger decline," study co-author Siraj Amanullah tells NBC News. Even more worrying: The figure could be misleadingly low. Kids underreport bullying because authorities don't take much action, Amanullah says.

Some 40% of injuries were cuts and bruises, while 12% were fractures, 10% brain injuries, and 7% sprains and strains, NBC notes. Assault—usually by someone known to the victim—accounted for 96% of the injuries, and 10% included multiple attackers. "...

on that note wrote: If you have a kid that is a bully, you have failed as a parent, your child is not socialized enough to go out in public without you, that simple. I think kids that are found to be bullies should be sent home to their parents for more socialization or training. Pretty simple, bully and get kicked out, not the school or the other kids' problem. Make that parent buy their own private schooling for their little future criminal (or president).

Sorry, humans are animals and for many reasons (breeding in particular) a pecking order will always develop. Don't blame my kid for being at the top of it, and yours being on the bottom. You're boy was not meant to reproduce, he's a follower, just like his dad. Call me a troll, but I believe that.

Were not all equal- And kids will be kids, and youre kid will most certainly end up an adult wimp (like you) if you get all upset over petty school yard squabbles....

Having said that, when I got calls about my kid taking some other kids lunch money or eating some other kids Twinkie or Suzy-Q, I stopped it that day, with just a few words to my boys.

on that note wrote: The fine line is whether something is a crime.

Now my assumption is that when a kid is violent at school and gets caught, that they get removed... (babble, babble, babble...)

Are these new posting sessions another one of your college experiments? Are you going to babble on and on and then someday in the hear future tell us what fools were were and thank us for all the entertainment?

Or do you think that we already forgot the last time you trolled this forum and then crapped all over us?

Reverend Revelant wrote:

on that note wrote: The fine line is whether something is a crime.

Now my assumption is that when a kid is violent at school and gets caught, that they get removed... (babble, babble, babble...)

Are these new posting sessions another one of your college experiments? Are you going to babble on and on and then someday in the hear future tell us what fools were were and thank us for all the entertainment?

Or do you think that we already forgot the last time you trolled this forum and then crapped all over us?

lol Oh Boo Hoo...

Who Cares Walter- who could take you seriously anyway? Whata think this is some kind of Think Tank or something?

"we must mantain the integrety of the message board!" :rofllol

Were not solving any of the worlds problems here Grandpaw, so just relax, it's supposed to be fun