What Parents & Schools Should Know: NPR Podcast & Helpful Links
Judge: Pervasive & Repetitive
No Adults Charged
"Some kinds of bullying can start to seem too normal to us"
As reported extensively in the press, Phoebe Prince, a student who moved with her family
from Ireland to western Massachusetts and attended South Hadley High School committed suicide from hanging herself after being bullied by fellow classmates.
Check out NPR podcast below which is a quick round-up of the major issues surrounding this explosive story,
interviewing both
Bridget Berman (click for Amazon), the ninth grader who authored "Dorie Witt's Guide To Bullying" before entering high school, and Emily Brazelon, reporting on bullying in an informative recent multiple-story series for
Slate (see story below podcast for links).
The podcast below is from NPR's "The Take-Away's" week-long series
Getting Schooled with John Hockenberry and Celeste Headlee. Link
Here. Podcast below in red runs 7 minutes:
Do you think that media has a major influence on the roll of setting the sterotypes in schools for what is "acceptable" and then the bullying is a consequence from what students have seen? Also, students themselves have control over the networking media. They are faster and they know whats new constantly. The older generation is still learning. So the students have already set the standards for what is acceptable because the adults are just now getting adapted with social networks like "facebook", and they are asking their kids for help. The social networks are targeted at the kids first and then parents realize, this is also something for them too. Why has it come down to the Kids having control over the media?
Also, isn't school supposed to be a "safe haven" for students? When I was in HS 3 and a half years ago, we had teachers and aids out side with the students monitoring at all times, is there a lack of teachers at the school to also have that? Do teachers feel that the students lunch break is also their time away from the students and what happens then isn't "under their watch?"
I don't understand how tormenting a student can get so out of hand on school grounds. As Bridget Berman said, when you go into work you dont have to worry because there are rules that protect you against harrassment. Why has this never been estiblished in schools?