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February 21, 2012
When I was in school, anytime a fight broke out, all the students in the vicinity would run over to watch, sometimes chanting "Fight! Fight! Fight!" Fights were almost always regarded as entertainment for the masses. If someone tried to break them up, that person was usually told to back off and let them go at it.
Inevitably a teacher would show up and drag the kids to the office, and we would all walk away grumbling that it hadn't lasted longer. That was the standard for ordinary fights.
I remember one occasion in which a student brought a gun to school the day after...
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February 16, 2012
In general, when people hear about cyberbaiting, their initial response is disgust and anger that students can be so horrifyingly mean to their teachers. Cyberbaiting is when a group of students, often an entire class of them, persistently harass, disrespect, and disobey their teachers.
After a long time, sometimes over several weeks, the teacher eventually loses his or her cool, and completely snaps. In some cases they threaten or...
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February 10, 2012
Dealing with schoolyard bullies is a constant problem for school administrators and students alike. Bullying is a unique kind of behavior. It is a constant harassment and torment by one person against another.
In some cases, a group of students will gang up on another student, but in most cases bullies act alone, and only call in reinforcements when they are feeling particularly
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February 05, 2012
As mobile camera phones grow in popularity and availability, many students are using them for dubious purposes in school. The practice known as cyberbaiting has increased significantly in the past year, and very few school administrators have clear ideas for dealing with it.
Cyberbaiting is when students, usually entire classrooms, harass, provoke, or intimidate a teacher, and then film the teacher doing or saying something embarrassing or threatening. The video is then loaded onto the Internet and the teacher is usually removed from the school.
Obviously this kind of behavior is reprehensible, and the students involved in it should be
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