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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By the way, the government will destroy the private school system also if people don't take a stand.
I’ve witnessed it more times than I can even count - been victim? not for many, many years. Been the bully? I hope not
I completely agree with your post except for one point.
One of the best ways to see how to handle conflict, which is a normal part of living, is to watch their parents in the real life situations of daily living. Homeschoolers have their parents, and other trusted adults, as models, not packs of immature age segregated children.
I would say that the fact that you learned to deal with bullies when you were young is exactly why you have not had to deal with them later in life. Give yourself the credit because somehow bullies must see that you are not to be messed with.
Did you really mean to type third **day** of medical school??? Really? “Day?” Did you possibly mean third **year**???
Did your daughter have some sort of specialized operating room training and experience prior to medical school? But...Even then, I would doubt that she would be specially singled out from an entire medical school class ( or have the time) to scrub up to be an assistant to a surgeon. I am completely amazed that the hospital would allow her to do it given the malpractice aspects of the situation.
Honestly, if “day “ is what you mean then something is seriously wrong with this story. While it is possible ( although unlikely) for a third **day** medical student to be a distant observer in an operating room, NO NO NO responsible surgeon would let a person with no training whatsoever to get so close to an operation site that she would be assisting with anything.
First year medical students are busy enough just finding their way to the bookstore to get their books and supplies, locating their labs their classrooms, and adjusting to memorizing up to 2000 pages a week of dense scientific text ( no I am not exaggerating) to be preparing to assist at any surgery. To get anywhere near an operating room table in the form of an assistant would take weeks of specialized training in that one topic.
Perhaps, you should clarify this with your daughter before mentioning the story to others.
Forgot to tell you - my public school educated child is already fluent in Japanese. Also will be starting French 3 next month.
Now - you need to remind everyone how much time your alleged prodigies (those sheltered home schooled prodigies) spent in public schools when it suited you.....
I am so sick and tired of your better than thou attitude. Get over yourself - you’re no better than any of us, no matter what you think.
OMG - That is wonderful!!!!! Big hugs and kisses to Nat from me and Jax!
Like you, I don’t pay much attention to this crapola - I’m only here because I’ve had the hiccups for the past hour and there is no way I can go to sleep until I get rid of them.
Do the study or quit your whining about it not having been done.
No home schooler I know, and I know plenty, are as whiny and nasty and vicious as you are. I don't know how many times I've told you this in the past, but I will say it yet again - you do more damage than good for the furtherance of home schooling.
I am seriously starting to wonder if you need professional help. I pray for your sanity as you seem to be on the brink.
Stating the facts is no being “better than thou”. They were merely normal homeschoolers. As Freepers drive by their local socialist-entitlement government high school indoctrination camp they should remember that the top 10% in that school could be finished with college by the age of 18 and not languishing away their lives like over ripe tomatoes in the hot house kiddieland of high school.
And...No, my children were not prodigies.
My children are normally bright people and not any smarter or more talented than the children of any poster here on Free Republic. They were simply homeschooled and, for homeschoolers, quite average.
Hey! Unlike some homeschoolers they didn't go to Ivy League schools and they did write best sellers at the age of 15 that have been made into blockbuster movies. They weren't teenage millionaire executives of businesses they started in their garage. They didn't win any spelling or geography contests.
As for my being a hypocrite:
I bet you have never changed you mind about a single thing in 42 years of living. That is my guess. ( No sarcasm tag.)
And...Yep! I did use the government schools for babysitting for a few weeks out of their tender lives as homeschoolers. Imagine that! I exposed them to the toxic waste of godless government schooling for a few **weeks**. Mea Culpa! ( Right hand striking my breast.) My kids did survive my foolishness.
Aren’t you both so special.........
Wintertime - you are one of the worst offending bullies I have encountered here on FR and I’ve been here a lot longer than you.
Of course it takes one to know one - that is why you keep harping on public schools and bullies. You used the former when it suited you and are the epitome of the latter.
How old is your home schooled child, BobL?
Who could be more content and happy? :-)
And.....I am following Saul Alinski’s advice. I am doing what I **like** to do to change the common thinking about the socialist entitlement K-12 schooling that is our nation's and freedom's **most** serious threat.
I don't even get upset when people personally insult me by calling me “whiny, nasty, or vicious”! I don't even report it to the moderators.
By the way, Gabz, thanks again for bring this topic to the top of the Latest Post page. Perhaps this article about “their kids regularly encountering negative messages such as ‘you're worthless’ and ‘everybody hates you.’ “ may encourage some Freepers to abandon the government indoctrination camps. Hey! It from CBS news so it must be true.
Oh wow! And now I am being personally insulted by being called a bully.
Please see my tag line.
OMG - you have made idiotic statements before, but this totally takes the cake.
I would totally hate being one of your kids. You scare my daughter, and NOTHING scares that child. More than once she has asked me if you are for real. When she asked me why I put up with such a bully (referring to you) I actually had to think about it. She has been reading FR for years (actually longer than you have been a poster)and I make a point of pointing out your posts to her when she misses one.
I do have to thank you, your posts have taught my daughter how NOT to behave online. She is not happy with many of my posts to you, but does understand why I occasionally dip to your level of the gutter.
However...He did manage to go to college part time in the evenings and accounting fit his training schedule very well. A mathematics major would have required day time classes.
But...I have notice something interesting. All the highly focused energy that he once devoted to his sport is now been completely redirected to his career.
One of the most important aspects of homeschooling was that it was so efficient. It allowed massive amounts of time for uninterrupted **play**. It was a fascinating process to watch to see this intensely focused play gradually transform itself into highly focused and intense effort in adult pursuits and work. Of all the benefits of homeschooling, I think uninterrupted and intense play is the most important and most valuable.
How can children learn to focus and concentrate if they are constantly being interrupted by bells, teachers, schedules, and other children?
My boys are trained to fight back and protect themselves and I must say, they are pretty efficient at it for their ages. We will go along until a zero-tolerance rule plays out badly, then we will move on somewhere else. I won't force my kids to resort to being a continuous tattletale in order to protect themselves... all it does is subject a kid to even more ridicule. These dumbass people actually believe laws and initiatives will change the behavior of kids.
Spouting your opinion is NOT stating facts. You can not and will not provide facts, but that doesn't surprise me.
You are a hypocrite and a bully.........oh and you need to brush up on your grammar and punctuation. My 14 year old, who starts HS next month, - in a pubic school - does far better than you do.
Yeah excuses are like buttholes, everyone has one and they all stink. Snerk CPA Snerk, not something I would ever brag about.
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