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Thursday, April 4, 2013

School Districts to Assess How Strong a Start They've Made With Anti-Bullying

New guidelines and monitoring process will ultimately grade schools on compliance.

While many New Jerseyans are transfixed by the latest case of bullying at Rutgers University, public schools across the state are being asked to assess how well they've done implementing the new Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights (ABR). Sadly, that landmark legislation was enacted partly in response to another bullying incident at Rutgers: The suicide of Tyler Clementi, who killed himself after his roommate posted a video online of Clementi's intimate encounter with another man. In order to gauge their success putting ABR in place, schools will work with a monitoring process to evaluate all the facets of the legislation, from the prevention programs for students to the staffing in the schools to the actual numbers of incidents of bullying -- …

Joe

1:40 pm on Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Institute a martial law, dammit. That should just about do it.   more ›

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Cerf Upholds Bullying Charges in First Cases Under Tough New Law

State education chief rejects parents’ appeals in East Brunswick, Tenafly incidents.

One involved an East Brunswick sixth-grader who called out a classmate in gym for “dancing like a girl.” The other involved a fourth-grader in Tenafly who embarrassed a classmate for having head lice. In the first legal cases to go the distance under New Jersey’s tough new law, both episodes have been upheld by the state as incidents of bullying and harassment. Parents of the accused students had appealed the initial findings by the local districts. But state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf this month upheld the schools’ determinations in each instance, the first such rulings by the commissioner under the state’s Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights. Legal experts said there will surely be more such cases to come. “It takes a while for them to …

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Singer, Dancer, Actor, Activist: Student Speaks Out against Bullying

Tamnia Jasemin

7:25 am on Wednesday, February 6, 2013

It's a big problem now a days. But I believe that every big problem has a great solution! Yeah you are right i have a great way to keep our children safe. My solution is PG Guard which is an online parenting system. I have mentioned some of it's features following: • PG guard is a simple to use service that safeguards children on facebook. • PG guard safeguards children regardless of devices they…   more ›

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