Posted on September 30th, 2009 by heygrrrl
HUFFINGTON POST
UPDATE: Four teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in Derrion Albert’s beating death.
Silvanus Shannon, 19, Eugene Riley, 18, and Eric Carson, 16, all of Chicago, were charged as adults ordered held without bond. Eugene Bailey, 18, was also charged with first-degree murder and will appear in court Tuesday.
Prosecutors declared Albert an “innocent bystander” [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2009 by heygrrrl
BY STEFANO ESPOSITO
Chicago Sun-Times
The “four most egregious offenders” have now been charged in the videotaped fatal beating of Fenger High School honor student Derrion Albert, Chicago’s top cop said Tuesday.
But even as 17-year-old Eugene Bailey was ordered held without bail Tuesday, police Supt. Jody Weis pleaded for the public’s help in identifying three more people [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2009 by heygrrrl
CNN.COM
CHICAGO, Illinois (CNN) — Chicago police asked the public for help Tuesday in finding three more people believed connected to last week’s videotaped fatal beating of 16-year-old Derrion Albert.
Derrion Albert, 16, was beaten to death last week. His death was captured on video.
“We need the public’s help, your help,” Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis told [...]
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Posted on September 30th, 2009 by heygrrrl
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Six thousand dollars is being offered for information that leads to more arrests in the fatal beating of a 16-year-old Chicago honor student.
Four teens have already been charged in the death of Derrion Albert. They’re all being held without bond.
Tags: Christian Fenger Academy High School, Derrion Albert, Roseland
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Posted on September 30th, 2009 by heygrrrl
ABC 7 NEWS
(CHICAGO) (WLS) — Authorities say 16-year-old Derrion Albert was walking from school in broad daylight when he was beaten to death.
It happened on Thursday in Chicago’s Roseland community on the far South Side in the 300-block of West 111th Street.
According to authorities, Derrion Albert was kicked, punched and beaten to death by several [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 by heygrrrl
BY RICKEENA J. RICHARDS
News-Democrat
BELLEVILLE, Illinois — Two informational meetings about bullying and how to stop it will be held at Belleville West High School.
“It’s about pulling everybody together and everybody working together to help us grow,” Principal Bob Dahm said of the school’s Students and Teachers Offering Protection, or STOP, program.
Tags: Bob Dahm, Bullying, Belleville [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 by heygrrrl
PRNewswire-USNewswire
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 28 — As part of PACER Center’s fourth annual National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week, Oct. 4-10, 2009, children, teens, adults, schools, and communities across the country are encouraged to partner with PACER to prevent bullying. The movement is being given a boost with the launch of PACERTeensAgainstBullying.org — a relevant, edgy Web site [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By SHERRI ACKERMAN
The Tampa Tribune
TAMPA – The first complaint came at the end of the first day of school.
A boy at Randall Middle School in Lithia said he was struck on the head by another student as they rode the bus home. His mother reported the incident to Hillsborough County schools officials using the district’s [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 by heygrrrl
GLSEN NEWS RELEASE
NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2009 – Middle school LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) students are significantly more likely to face hostile school climates than high school LGBT students, yet have less access to school resources and support, according to a new research brief from GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, [...]
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Posted on September 29th, 2009 by heygrrrl
OPENPRESS PR NEWSWIRE
September 29, 2009 — Love Our Children USA announced that NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg is proclaiming October 5th BLUE SHIRT DAY to signify the importance of National Bullying Prevention Awareness Week, October 4th – 10th.
Love Our Children USA created National Blue Shirt Day on Monday, October 5th, where thousands of kids and adults [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Charlotte A. Graham
Laurel Leader-Call
Editor’s Note: This is the third of a series of stories about the Lawrence County and Laurel school districts’ Safe School/Healthy Students project.
Laurel, Mississippi — If asked what a bully looks like, students from age four to 18 will probably describe someone who is bigger and stronger than they are.
But in [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Christopher Curry
Gainesville.com
Gainesville, Florida — Students at Fort Clarke Middle School witnessed an impromptu lunchtime concert Thursday, as teacher John Young got on stage and, to the tune of blues classic “Stormy Monday,” started singing, “We will not bully others, and we will help those that are bullied.”
A few minutes later, students came up on [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Mian Ridge
The Christian Science Monitor
NEW DELHI – Aman Kachroo was a handsome, easygoing 19-year-old in the first year of medical school in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
On March 6, at 2 a.m., he was awakened by a group of drunken senior students and dragged out of his bed for a “ragging,” the [...]
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Posted on September 28th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Denise Jewell Gee
BUFFALO NEWS NIAGARA
LEWISTON, N.Y. — Ten Lewiston-Porter High School students involved in a hazing incident in which raw meat was thrown at new players on the girls varsity soccer team have been suspended following a district investigation, Superintendent R. Christopher Roser said Friday.
Administrators suspended the students after learning Wednesday of a Labor [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Barbara F. Meltz
Child Caring – Parent Questions & Advice
Hi Barbara -
What advice do you have for how to deal with persistent bullying in younger grades? My son has been coming home with tales about one particular boy in his class since Pre-K, and the kids are now in first grade.
My son has rarely been [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2009 by heygrrrl
by Timothy J. Carroll
Hudson Reporter
At Tuesday’s Hoboken Board of Education meeting, a few parents accused district schools of mishandling bullying situations. Interim Superintendent Peter Carter said that unresponsive principals would be “in trouble,” and promised that remedies would be forthcoming.
But on Wednesday, Carter said that two of the three situations in question predated his tenure, [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Nick Britten and Aislinn Laing
Telegraph
Claire and Scott David claim Carol Hill, 60, was made a scapegoat for telling them what happened to their daughter Chloe, seven.
She is alleged to have had her hands and feet bound with skipping rope before being whipped by four boys at her school in June.
Tags: Bullying, Great Tey Primary [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Richard Woods and Richard Goss
London Times online
In the village of the Great Dinner Lady Scandal, the vicar was offering scant comfort to confused souls last week. The Reverend John Richardson, a governor at the school that had sacked a staff member for telling parents the truth about how their child was bullied, was in [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By TINA KELLEY
The New York Times
Girl-on-girl bullying or hazing is old news by now, for anyone who has seen “Mean Girls” or “Heathers” or “Gossip Girl”: popular girls organize a perfectly-coiffed and designer-clothed gang; fringe girl is targeted; bullies use their meanness and power to further marginalize fringe girl and reassert their status.
But news of [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2009 by heygrrrl
By Denise Jewell Gee
NEWS NIAGARA REPORTER
LEWISTON — Ten Lewiston-Porter High School students involved in a hazing incident in which raw meat was thrown at new players on the girls varsity soccer team have been suspended following a district investigation, Superintendent R. Christopher Roser said today.
Administrators suspended the students after learning Wednesday of a Labor Day [...]
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