Posted on 08/11/2012 4:00:57 PM PDT by wintertime
WASHINGTON — Parents are urged to teach their kids to speak up if they witness school bullying in new ads that target an issue that top Obama administration officials vow to make a national priority.
long-term campaign featuring television, print and web ads was unveiled Monday and will start running in October. The campaign is a joint effort by the Ad Council, a nonprofit that distributes public service announcements, and the Free to Be Foundation, a group that includes entertainers Marlo Thomas, Alan Alda and Mel Brooks.
one television ad, two girls are seen bullying a schoolmate, mocking her appearance and telling her that nobody likes her. A fourth girl looks on but doesn't intervene.
"Every day, kids witness bullying," says a narrator. "They want to help, but don't know how. Teach your kids how to be more than a bystander."
Online and print ads will warn parents that their kids regularly encounter negative messages such as "you're worthless" and "everybody hates you."
ads were unveiled Monday at an annual anti-bullying summit hosted by the Department of Education in Washington, where lawmakers, educators and government officials convened to develop a national strategy aimed at ensuring a safe, healthy learning environment for students. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addressed the summit Monday, and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will deliver a keynote speech on Tuesday.
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Let us not close out this thread without a word of thanks to Mr. Compassionate Conservatism himself, George W. Bush.
He boosted Washington’s intrusion into local schools with his fascist No Child Left Behind program.
Obama is building on the bureaucratic colossus built by his supposedly conservative predecessor. Obama is demanding that No Child Shall Be Bullied. Or else I will bully YOU.
Thank you, Mr. Compassionate Conservative. You just keep on giving, don’t you?
Are the students more emotionally stable, better parents, do they have better earning potential, etc....
He did provide me with a link to a study (Eleven years old) commissioned by a home school association (fair enough) the study was done by the president of another home schooling group. The study did use a large enough sample size (around 7,000) but the vast majority (Over 66%) of the sample were home school students.
Since Wintertime has agreed that only 4% of the population home schools, the sample size is obviously skewed.
Would any of you have links to any studies that do demonstrate the superiority of home schooling?
I am not looking for anecdotal opinions, I need empirical evidence. And please don't complain to me that the public schools have not done the studies either. Given the length of time that home schooling has been going on there should be dozens of studies.
It is impolite here on Free Republic to carry the topic and discussion from one thread to another.
Perhaps you should copy this post and take it to its proper thread.
Good point
” Well...If bullying soooooo good then why do adults get millions awarded to them in court, perps sent to prison, professionals lose their licenses and sued for malpractice, and business given huge fines for the same type of physical and emotional harassment?
Unbelievable!”
The answer is simple. We have become a society of pansies and golddiggers looking to be harassed, offended, or somehow bullied. There was a day when men were men and women were women, and they did not need to hide behind societal curtains like home schooling. The process of boys becoming men and girls becoming women has been disrupted by know it alls, do gooders, and zealots. It is much easier to just runaway and hide, sue, or claim foul than it is to stand up and face tyranny head on. Whenever people runaway for some sort of perceived cover, tyranny grows stronger because there is not enough people left behind to challenge it. Yes, our public institutions are rotten, but it is our fault for not standing up and fighting for what is right. Instead too many looked for somewhere to run, hide their eyes, and pretend they were better than everyone else.
What is unbelievable is how many cowards we have in this country today.
“And please don’t complain to me that the public schools have not done the studies either. Given the length of time that home schooling has been going on there should be dozens of studies.”
Of course there SHOULD be dozens of studies on home schooling, just as there should have been dozens of studies on Saxon Math (the main reason home schoolers run circles around the rest of the field).
But the BOTTOM LINE is that studies cost money and for an study to be considered unbiased, it must be paid for by a neutral party. Well, in the case of Saxon Math, the people with the deep pockets knew EXACTLY what the results would be...so they never paid for a study - no matter how much John Saxon begged them. Likewise for home schooling, Big Education knows EXACTLY what the results would be (i.e., there’s a reason that home schoolers nearly always win spelling bees and other competitions)...so why would they ever pay for a study?
We’re used to that treatment...but our results speak for themselves - there is no debate - that was settled at least a decade ago.
(pinging wintertime only because she would scream bloody murder that I mentioned her name and didn’t - FR protocol and all)
I wish I could help you out, but I can’t. You see I only pay attention to wintertime’s rants when I’m on FR, when I’m not reading here I don’t give a rip what she has to say about anything - and most especially about public schools.
I truly despise hypocrites and she is the epitome of the word. Home schooling was only good enough for her when it was convenient - she had no qualms about sending her kids to public school when it suited her purposes.
Not to mention very few people here on FR are capable of understanding what these scores actually mean. For instance - there is a study from 1999 that shows that HS students scored an average of 511 on the SAT math, compared to a 504 for PS - big deal? hardly since the standard deviation is about 16 points. I've actually attempted to explain this and many other aspects of statistics and to be honest, either people are dumb or blind. I gave up Homeschooling success is largely anecdotal - I mean, if your kid sucks you are hardly going to brag about it are you? However, the good, the bad, the ugly are all display for PS kids.
FWIW
But...Hey! That is why I support privatization of K-12 education. You should be completely free to choose the educational philosophy that most closely suits your children's needs.
Somehow, though, my ( oh so sheltered) homeschooled kids graduated from college, are married, with children, regular church attenders, volunteers in the community, faithful voters, and responsible in every way.
One was a nationally and internationally ranked athlete and represented the U.S. worldwide, worked for several years for our church in Eastern Europe and returned to the states completely fluent in Russian, earned a masters degree in accounting, has a high paying professional position in an accounting firm, and is now taking his CPA exams.
The other two graduated with B.S. degrees in mathematics at the ages of 18. One was teaching college students as part of her masters program at the age of 18 and finished her masters degree at the age of 20.
“Well...If bullying soooooo good then why do adults get millions awarded to them in court, perps sent to prison, professionals lose their licenses and sued for malpractice, and business given huge fines for the same type of physical and emotional harassment?”
I have to agree there - I’ve been working now for DECADES and I’ve NEVER dealt with a bully on the job, not even close - and I did have to deal with that through 8th grade. There’s NOTHING good that comes from bullying a kid.
Kids reporting bullies will just get in trouble, and become targets for the bullies.
I'm proud of my two girls who were 100% publically school educated - and you are proud of your daughter. As we should be.
BTW, Nat assisted in her first surgery on her third day of medical school. After the surgery was over, the doctor looked at her funny and said 'You really aren't a first year are you?" When told she was, the doctor gave her a phone number and told her to call her to discuss mentoring and told her she would be a great surgeon.
Boo-yah!
Myself, I have experienced it on many levels over the years.
Indeed....There should be dozens of studies by now, but there aren't. And...Likely the reason they haven't been done is that homeschoolers would blindingly outshine the socialist-entitlement institutionalized children.
Also...NEVER done by the education socialist-entitlement establishment is the effect of **afterschooling** and **preschooling** done by the parents, the child doing homework and projects, and paid and unpaid tutoring. If they did do these studies it would likely show that government schools teach nothing ( really I am serious) and it is the parents, child, and tutors who are doing all the real work IN THE HOME!
If these studies were ever done we would learn that the only thing government schools do is send home a very expensive curriculum for the parents to following in the home.
There is a difference between adults and children.
Children trapped in a bullying situation are abandoned by their parents, teachers, and the police enforced law. Then we wonder why some children have that 20 degree off centered stare, answer in mumbles, and have a “generation gap” attitude. (Something I have **never** seen in homeschooled children who have been homeschooled from an early age. )
Ah! .....But the difference with and adult iis that they are not trapped by LAW and threat of armed police action to remain in the abusive situation. They do have options. They can find new work. They file a suit. They can move. They can press criminal charges.
“Google, “Bullying in the work place” and you will see hundreds of thousands of links that say in essence most people have either seen bullying in the work place, been a part of it, or been a victim...Myself, I have experienced it on many levels over the years.”
Maybe you, but not me...but perhaps the people that work with me want to keep their jobs, and thus know better.
My experience as well, and I have been working since I was 17. I am now retired and in my sixties.
Yep, I think we all know that studies are done when there is AN OBJECTIVE to be had. Showing how home schoolers run circles around institutionalized kids is not the kind of objective desired by Big Education.
0bama, H0lder and Big Sis are bullies.
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