Socastee Students Take A Stand Against Bullying

Socastee High School students are taking a stand after the recent arrest of eight students accused of bullying a younger special needs student. Students asked everyone to wear purple, the color for anti-bullying, to the basketball game this week.

Reported Bullying, Violence Incidents Decline Again In NJ Schools

A recently released state report shows that New Jersey schools saw a decline across the board in bullying, violence and weapons incidents during the 2013-14 school year.  The Violence, Vandalism and Substance Abuse in the School Report shows there were 19,167 total incidents in the five major categories. This represents an amazing 9% decrease from last year.

Dad Thinks Racial Bullying Spur Girl’s Suicide

Fairfield Township is in morning after seventh-grader, Emilie Grace Olsen, fatally shot herself and now her father, Marc Olsen, is looking for answers.  Mr. Olsen claims that his daughter’s suicide is due to her being racially bullied.

Children’s e-Safety

Australia’s Federal Government has decided the next step in the mission to stop the bullying epidemic across the nation. The commissioner will target online bullying, with powers to fine social media websites and apps, forcing offending posts to be taken down.

Bullying the Bullies

RacistsGettingFired.tumblr.com is a website, that induced a number of photos and screenshots of comments posted by people in response to the Michael Brown case that has been which has been on the spotlight for quite some time now. The ultimate goal of this website is to track down outspoken racists posts, and then upload their hate speech to their employers’ social media, looking for discipline.

The Weight of Bullying

There is one case of bullying that is rarely discussed in today’s wide-ranging causes for psychological trauma cause by bullying. Rebecca Puhl is focused on developing policy strategies to help children who are bullied because of their weight.