School Bullying Council

Robbing Them of Who They Are: Intimidation, Harassment and Violence Against Michigan’s LGBTQ Youth Forty-seven states have anti-bullying protections for their students. Michigan is not one of them. For years, anti-bullying bills have stalled in the state’s legislature because of the issue of enumeration – the listing of protected classes. Many say that the bills have been stopped by those who do not wish “sexual orientation” or “gender identity and expression” to be included. Who They Are Studen

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Ethics Case Cyber Bullying

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Many people may be bullies and not even know it. This program challenges students to think about their own behavior with a series of seven questions about physical, verbal, and exclusionary bullying. Questions include: Have you ever punched, shoved, or hit another boy or girl? Do you ever make fun of or tease other students or call them mean names? Do you often make fun of others because they are “different” from you or your friends? Have you purposely not invited someone to han

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Kelly Karius describes the No Such Thing as a Bully Program. This innovative, inexpensive and self-implemented program provides lesson plans for adults and handouts for students to strengthen communication skills in order to bullyproof our children. Moving away from using labels, the program addresses bully actions and victim responses, and provides a new definition for diagnosing bullying.

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Recent CINE Golden Eagle Award Winner! Program presents three real-life stories from kids who were targets of cyberbullying attacks and offers viewers practical suggestions for how to avoid being victimized by this new, rapidly-spreading type of bullying. Each story highlights important tips such as: only post the type of information online that you would be comfortable with others seeing; remember that once an email or photo is posted online, you can’t take it back; avoid respo

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Directed by Adam Flaherty, A young teenage boy who was just starting his first year of high school, took his own life because he was bullied so much. Although the bullying started when he was in grade two, the tipping point was when someone threw a quarter at him and yelled “Go kill yourself!”…and so he did. Music by: Sebastion Larsson “Into the dark (a sad piano song)” ***Bullying, Suicide, Bully, Greg Doucette, Notre Dame Secondary School, Brampton, Ontario, Adam Flaherty Films, Adam Flahert

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