Saturday, October 27, 2012
One parent is asking the holiday classic special to be removed from the airwaves because of a "bullying" theme. Do you agree?
Teasing or bullying? One parent is speaking out online against the Halloween classic program, "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," claiming the animated favorite actually condones bullying, according to a report on WCVB.com. The TODAY Show's Moms Blog reported this week that in a recent blog post on Babble.com, blogger DadCamp wrote that the show sends the wrong message to children because of its "continuous teasing and bullying": "The show is riddled with the kids calling each other stupid, dumb, and blockheads," DadCamp wrote. "Charlie Brown is supposed to be the hero. Instead, he is kicked and demeaned at every turn, even by the adults giving out candy." Bishop goes on to argue the Charlie Brown specials have nothing of value to …
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Representatives from youth-based organizations in Newton, Wellesley and Needham discussed bullying and the mental health of children at Temple Beth Elohim in Wellesley Thursday night.
After Gabe Snyder’s first week of seventh grade, he knew it would be a tough year. Gabe, alongside his mother Dana, told his story to a crowd of nearly 100 representatives from educational organizations, parent-teacher councils and youth commissions in Wellesley, Newton and Needham Thursday night at “Connecting Matters,” an interfaith, multi-institutional event at Temple Beth Elohim sponsored by Growing Up Healthy, an organization dedicated to solving the problems related to bullying. It was September of 2008, and Gabe had been the victim of bullying for the entire prior school year. A soft-spoken student, Gabe kept his pain inside, until one day he blew up. He screamed at his mother after after she asked him an innocuous question about …
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Tuesday, November 23, 2010
The new site is just one piece to a revamped bullying policy.
It's a movement and a concern that has rapidly spread across the state in the last year: bullying--what it is and how to deal with it. And while Newton is lauded for its top-ranked education, its impressive facilities and rigorous program of studies, a problem like bullying still looms in the back of the minds of parents, teachers, administrators and students. Last night, Deputy Superintendent Paul Stein met with the School Committee to present a draft policy for bullying prevention and intervention. The guidelines, which include plans for a district bullying website, will revamp the district's current bullying protocol. The policy, Stein said, is the result of the hard work of a task force made up of school officials, parents, students …
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1:01 pm on Thursday, November 1, 2012
Charlie Brown is great for kids! Not showing any form of bullying in any media will not magically make it cease to exist, in fact, it will probably make bullied kids feel more alienated from their peers. Conversations about what happened when instances of sexism, bullying, violence, etc should happen! You can't just let the television parent your children for you! On a separate rant, I'm sorry … more ›