Brendan James Murray is haunted. Well, to be grammatically correct, his school is haunted, but Brendan is tormented by the ghosts that wander the halls. The ghosts of children with unfulfilled potential, ghosts of others who couldn't be reached and ...
More »UK school bans unsupervised activities in break time to curb bullying
A school in the UK is making headlines after it replaced break time games with supervised activities in a bid to address a bullying problem at the school. Instead of playing self-run games and sports at break times, students at ...
More »Bullying from best friends especially harmful: study
Bullying hurts children more if it comes from a friend, and they're less likely to report it, says a new study. Flinders University researchers found that victims identify the pain of relational bullying from best friends as being especially harmful ...
More »New study finds parents often confuse bullying with fighting
A recent study by Dr Lesley-Anne Ey of UniSA and Professor Marilyn Campbell of the Queensland University of Technology revealed that only a fraction of parents can accurately describe what bullying is. As part of the study titled ‘Do Parents ...
More »Severe bullying not improved by school interventions: new research
A new study using data from 223 student surveys across 24 Australian schools has found that school interventions did not help to resolve severe cases of bullying and group bullying. UniSA’s Professor Ken Rigby found that school interventions “reduced or ...
More »Unique program tackles bullying in schools: Podcast
Having been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, Samwise Holmes's high school years were characterised by relentless bullying, constant feelings of isolation and even having his head flushed down a toilet. But being subjected to such extensive and cruel bullying didn't defeat ...
More »Could restorative justice be one of the best ways to address school bullying?
Two separate incidents of anti-Semitic bullying within Victorian schools have sent deep tremors of disturbance through the education system and wider community. In one case, under threat of violence, a Year 7 student at Cheltenham Secondary College was made to ...
More »‘I just laugh’: John Marsden’s response to pro-bullying accusations
John Marsden is best known for his top-selling Tomorrow When the War Began YA series, in which a group of young people find themselves suddenly in a war zone without the protections of the adults or institutions they've relied upon ...
More »Are your school’s anti-bullying campaigns making matters worse?
However well-intentioned, some school anti-bullying campaigns actually make the issue worse. That’s the warning from University of Queensland researcher Karyn Healy, unpacked in a piece for The Conversation. Some of the problem, Healy said, stems from the fact most anti-bullying programs ...
More »Could a code of conduct for parents, students curb teacher-targeted bullying?
Teachers are considering leaving the profession over the bullying they cop, so experts have floated a possible partial solution to the problem: a mandatory code of conduct for parents and students. Their study found a vast majority (80 per cent) of teachers ...
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