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Anthony Cataldo of Oakland first raised concerns about aggressive bullying at his son's elementary school last year after Zachary lost four teeth on the playground - but he said he received only a verbal assurance that things would change. Cataldo said he complained again when some boys at school kicked 7-year-old Zachary in the stomach three months ago but got no response. Now - two days after an older student slammed Zachary against a tree, fracturing his skull and sending the first-grader to intensive care - Cataldo is hiring a lawyer, and school officials are paying attention.

All lank and bone, the boy stands at the corner with his younger sister, waiting for the yellow bus that takes them to their respective schools. He is Billy Wolfe, high school sophomore, struggling. Moments earlier he left the sanctuary that is his home, passing those framed photographs of himself as a carefree child, back when he was 5. And now he is at the bus stop, wearing a baseball cap, vulnerable at 15. A car the color of a school bus pulls up with a boy who tells his brother beside him that he’s going to beat up Billy...

LEE'S SUMMIT, Missouri (AP) -- The bedroom bears the telltale signs of a typical boy on the cusp of his teen years: discarded food wrappers, video game consoles, clothes scattered on the floor. The disarray hides tragedy inside the suburban Kansas City home. The room is a memorial to 12-year-old Brandon Myers, who killed himself in February 2007. For Kim Myers, Brandon's death is the result of what she calls incessant bullying that her son's teachers and other administrators at Voy Spears Elementary School failed to stop. "He was teased in class on the day he died for acting depressed,"...

Will women vote for Hillary Clinton only because she's a woman? That question keeps getting bounced around and I've recently revised my answer from "no" to "yes." That is, yes, women will vote for Clinton because she's a woman — if men target her as a woman. Translation: Gentlemen, if you don't want another Clinton in the White House, do not say unkind things about her persona, demeanor, appearance — even if bull's-eye true. Not even in your own kitchen with your own wife. Women have radar for anti-woman sentiments — and all guys have them to some degree. Blame...

UNISEX wash basin areas could be built in schools to help tackle bullying. The move is part of recommendations covering schools in England being rebuilt or refurbished as part of the Government's £45bn Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme. BSF aims to rebuild or renew every one of England's 3,500 state secondary schools during the 15-year lifetime of the initiative. The new guidelines were issued by the Government agency responsible for delivering the programme, Partnerships for Schools. Toilets in Schools was published earlier this month and details new toilet block designs to be incorporated into all BSF schools. It...

<p>The summer I turned 6 years old, some of the neighborhood boys started bullying me. Back then, I owned a pair of cabbage patch kid roller-skates and my favorite activity was skating around the block singing nursery rhymes at the top of my lungs. One day, a few boys in the 8-10 range thought it would be pretty humorous to push me around and watch me flail. I tried to run from them, but I couldn’t skate faster than they could run. They taunted me for a while and then knocked me down. Angry, humiliated, and with two freshly skinned knees, I did what any 6 year old girl would do in my position.</p>

Unisex toilets should be built at schools to stop bullying, according to the Government. Guidelines issued by the Department for Education today also recommend installing glass-panelled walls between hand-washing areas, scrapping urinals and installing trough sinks to make flooding more difficult.

When is enough, ENOUGH!? After seeing how the Brits are Desperately looking for a way to end ... "Peacefully" .. The 'kidnapping', 'hostage taking' of their countrymen .. I Have to ask: WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH? When does the fright of Minorities and Political Correctness .. End? When does the Free World, (discover, inherit, LUCK INTO) A leader who says .. "Enough is Enough"! WHEN will the Bullies .. become the Bullied? When will the frustrations of having 'No One' standing up and saying .. "Enough Is Enough" .. come to an end? I am tired of yelling at my...

Video Clip of Vicious School Bullying Sparks Uproar A video clip showing a group of girl students assaulting another is inciting controversy on the Internet. In the six-minute clip, five or six students without any provocation attack the girl, one ripping off the victim’s glasses and beating her hands repeatedly down on the girl’s head. The victim bursts into tears, a signal for the rest to start battering her in a profanity-laced onslaught of kicking and punching. Images of violence released on Pandora TV site The assailants take the victim’s long hair and pull it behind her head before...

SEE HILLARY CLINTON ON HOME VIDEO TELL US HOW SHE DOES NOT LIKE BULLIES Peter Paul attended a Hillary fundraiser in March 2000 at the Los Angeles home of Democrat loyalist Zev Braun. Among her many comments was an interesting comment about bullies that Peter caught with his home video. Yes, indeed, the woman who threatens people, ruins people's lives, and runs roughshod over the law actually says that she does not like bullies. How about the bully who raped Juanita Broaddrick? Who intimidated women? Who used the IRS to go after enemies? How about those bullies, Hillary?

I hate bullies. Always have, always will. Because I was younger and smaller than my classmates in grammar school, I have been aware of them for a great many years. You might even say I’ve made a study of them. One of the things I’ve uncovered is that occasionally size isn’t the determining factor; meanness is. In some families, for instance, it’s the smallest person who turns out to be the biggest bully. Lacking size and strength, he depends on guile. What he does is provoke his larger sibling by constantly annoying him, knowing full well that if his big...

The clear message for employers in the case of Helen Green, who this week won more than £800,000 in damages against her former employer Deutsche Bank after a sustained period of "infantile" treatment by colleagues, is that it is not okay to look the other way if an employee is being bullied. * Examples of the treatment said to have been meted out to Ms Green included blowing raspberries at her and telling her "you stink". Some employers might be forgiven for believing that such juvenile behaviour should be ignored or simply brushed aside by the person on the receiving...

HEARD ON MELANIE MORGAN ANOTHER New York Times columnist disses Melanie! - July 9, 2006 NY Times columnist condemns Melanie - July 4, 2006. Transcript of Melanie's appearance on "Hardball" - from June 26, 2006. LIBERALS GO CRAZY OVER NY TIMES COMMENTS - Blogger upset with Melanie Morgan...read their "outrage".

Bullies in Judges' Cloaks by Moshe Feiglin Jun 26, '06 / 30 Sivan 5766 15-year-old Oryah Shirel is in jail indefinitely. But she has the key. All she has to do is to sign on bail; but she won't do it. Oryah was arrested at a demonstration outside the kindergarten in her hometown of Hebron. She and hundreds of others were protesting the fact that the Israeli government is rebuilding an Arab home in the Jewish community's kindergarten playground. In the past, Jewish children in the playground had been attacked from that home. In her decision to return Oryah to...

[ . . . ] Let's not delude ourselves about what is going on: In the Middle East, Europe, America and elsewhere, a campaign of violence and intimidation is being waged. We have not yet begun to fight back. Instead, we've dressed up our fears as sensitivity, attempted to appease those who threaten and kill, while allowing ourselves to be cowed into self-censorship. Surely, we know where this road leads. In the last century, Nazis and Communists attempted to extinguish freedom. We fought back. Now, there are new bullies on the block. There is no guarantee that if we fight...

When stars explode as supernova, they carve giant bubbles in space. Our own solar system is enveloped by such a structure from a long-ago explosion. Now scientists have shown that our bubble is being pinched and bullied backward by another expanding bubble forged from multiple supernovas. Our bubble is called the Local Bubble by astronomers. It’s shaped like an hourglass. The bully goes by the name of Loop 1 Superbubble; it’s the result of several exploded stars over the past few million years, researchers figure. Superbubble’s outer boundaries are marked by hot, expanding gas that radiates low-energy X-rays. Superbubble is...

On premium cable, "Penn & Teller" (Showtime, 10 p.m.) starts a fourth season by taking on the Boy Scouts of America, charging their anti-gay bias came after the Mormons hijacked the organization in the '70s. Brash humor keeps this lively series from becoming too strident

David Knight couldn't look at the salmon entree, the chocolate mousse or the strawberry tarts at the conference luncheon. He had to address a crowd of Montreal educators and he was nervous. Eating would give the former bullying victim-turned activist a bout of stomach cramps - the kind he used to get as a teenager, when he had to return to high school after lunch and face his tormenters. Now 21, Knight is wiry and stands more than six feet tall. He has a steady girlfriend and loves fixing up old cars. He's wearing jeans and a pin from Canada's...

Lawyer: Teen Acted In Self-Defense In School Bus Shooting Teen Accused In Shooting Charged As Adult POSTED: 8:04 pm EST November 16, 2005 UPDATED: 8:44 am EST November 17, 2005 MIRAMAR, Fla. -- A teenager accused of opening fire on a school bus Tuesday has been charged as an adult. Cheatham continues to recover at Memorial Hospital in Hollywood from a gunshot wound in the upper chest. Burke's lawyer, Bruce Lehr, said his client acted in self-defense. "To put somebody into a school bus where they can be beaten, where they can be attacked, where they can be constantly harassed,...

Last March, at a workshop aimed at empowering girls to confront bullies, I listened as girls recounted tales of being harassed and intimidated. One girl's voice cracked as she spoke of a student who cursed at her and tried to trip her in the hall of her school. We learned that bullying is "the unjust exercise of power of one individual to humiliate, frighten, denigrate or injure another." That day, a national expert said it's not just victims who have to stop bullies; bystanders need to speak up too; otherwise they're enabling the bullies. So today I'm standing up to...

The left-wing Kumbaya crowd is quietly grooming a generation of pushovers in the public schools. At a time of war, when young Americans should be educated about this nation's resilience and steely resolve, educators are indoctrinating students with saccharine-sticky lessons on "non-violent conflict resolution" and "promoting constructive dialogues." Peaceniks are covering our kids from head to toe in emotional bubble wrap. The latest example of Hand-Holding 101 comes from the New York City public schools. According to Lauren Collins of The New Yorker magazine, the school system is introducing a new curriculum called "Operation Respect: Don't Laugh at Me" into...

. NEVER FORGET Reprinted from NewsMax.com Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9 a.m. EST Terri's Former Nurse Accuses Michael Schiavo From April 1995 to August 1996, Carla Sauer Iyer was one of Terri Schiavo's caretakers at Palm Garden in Largo, Fla. This morning on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" program, she gave a frightening account of Michael Schiavo's actions and words, and also a hopeful description of Terri Schiavo's condition at that time. Ms. Iyer said that Terri could: Interact with staff. Laugh. Talk - saying words like "mommy," "help me" and "hi." Let you know if she was in pain....

No Name Calling Week?     1/12/2005By Warren Throckmorton, Ph.D.Yes, name-calling is wrong. But this event’s sponsors reveal the agenda behind banning it. “There is a special place in hell for people like you!” These words were directed at me by a teacher during this past summer’s National Education Association (NEA) convention in Washington, D.C. This delegate to the NEA convention made his prediction in response to my presence at the NEA’s Ex-Gay Educators’ Caucus booth in the convention exhibit hall. His cheery salutation caught me off-guard given the message of tolerance and acceptance I had been hearing around the exhibit hall....

HOW DO WE ELECT DANGEROUS IDIOTS LIKE THIS? The brain-dead, idiotic, disgusting, anti-American, childish, can't-get-over-it politician of the day is one Nelson Polite, a member of the Lancaster, Pennsylvania city council. Thankfully this jerk will rise no further up the political ladder. Even Democrats think he's a fool. Polite is upset because of David Stoltzfus who runs a baked goods stand at the local city market. Stoltzfus has a picture of President Bush hanging in the stand. Polite is a Democrat. Polite made a trip to visit Stoltzfus to tell him that he and other Lancaster Democrats are "offended" by...

Let's call them what they are and quit pussyfooting around. The terrorists who are kidnapping and bombing and hijacking around the world are Islamic fascists. They are a minority who have hijacked one of the world's great religions and now besmirch the tenets of that noble faith. They are ready to kill anyone they find who doesn't believe in the same extreme doctrines they've had pumped into their heads. They call their enemies infidels who should die. And to learn how to kill us, they've taken training at the same al-Qaida terror camps. The Chechens who took over a grade...

George W. Bush speaks for values. He speaks for family fidelity, personal responsibility, patriotism and spiritual devotion. John Kerry embodies values. He's faithful to his wife and loyal to his family. Would Kerry embrace Harry Truman's "The Buck Stops Here"? Yes, he accepts personal responsibility. Does Bush? Not entirely, remember Abu Graib and his resistence to set up a 9/11 Commission to find out the truth. His administration gave Congress a cost figure for Medicare prescription drugs which was 145 billion dollars lower than the real cost. He wanted the political credit for Medicare prescription drugs so badly that he...

(Meriden-AP May 14, 2004 UPDATED 1:30 PM ) _ A mother convicted of contributing to her 12-year-old son's suicide was sentenced today. She received 18 months suspended sentence and 5 years probation. She is also required to 100 hours of community service and psychiatric care. If she ever cares or shares in the responsibility of a taking care of a child under 16 years of age she has been ordered to get parenting classes. The 52-year-old was found guilty last October of risk of injury to a minor for creating an unsafe and unhealthy home for her son, J. Daniel...

For discussion and education purposes only.Greensboro, North Carolina-AP -- A North Carolina fifth-grader has been charged with assault for knocking out a boy in a school bus fight over a snack cake. (snip) ...According to the principal, when the boy sitting next to him asked for a bite, Kevin said no and was smacked in the face with a stuffed Tweety Bird. Kevin hit back, but was slammed against a window and hit in the back. Then he fell in the aisle and was stomped.School officials say when the bus driver pulled the aggressor off him, Kevin was unconscious.

Weblog My Talk at UC-Berkeley February 12, 2004 My Talk at UC-Berkeley. I spoke on February 10 at the University of California-Berkeley to a crowd of about 550; a sizeable number could not get in. As I had expected, this was the most out-of-control talk of the roughly one thousand I have given, with a core group of about 150 Islamists, Palestinian radicals, and far-leftists constantly disrupting me, mostly with insults that I would prefer to forget. The best and fullest account of the event is by Cinnamon Stillwell, "Fascism at UC Berkeley: Muslim Student Association Disrupts Daniel Pipes Lecture,"...

Rachel Simmons, author of two books on female bullying, has a confession to make -- she was once a bully herself. Appearing at Seattle Girls' School yesterday during a cross-country tour promoting her new book, the 29-year-old Brooklynite came clean to a group of about 100 middle-schoolers. Simmons told them about her best childhood friend. The pair were inseparable until ninth grade, when Simmons joined the popular clique and, at the whim of its leader, turned on her girlfriend. Without explanation, the group stopped talking to the girl, who was devastated. "She eventually left the school and she never came...

Anti-smoking group ASH sent registered letters to 170 leading firms in the hospitality trade making it clear legal action will be taken on behalf of staff. John Banzhaf is one of the most dangerous men in America today. This is the guy who said of a smoker-friendly restaurant "Nice place you got here. Hate to see anything bad happen to it." He's a bully and a thug, and he TEACHES LAW!

<p>November 9, 2003 -- Teenage transgender prostitutes from Harvey Milk HS boasted of earning up to $600 a night turning tricks and stealing from johns - then would blow it all on extravagant shopping sprees for the designer outfits and shoes they wore to school, The Post has learned.</p>

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. -- A teenager was convicted yesterday of criminal harassment in a landmark case filed after one of her girlfriends committed suicide -- the first time the province has filed charges in a case centered on student bullying. A second girl was acquitted of uttering threats after an emotional trial in youth court attended by the mothers of 14-year-old victim Dawn-Marie Wesley and the two defendants. The girls are not identified by name because they are minors. "It's unfortunate that my daughter has to be in the middle of all this. I wish that my family, my community, my...

Connecticut Mother Convicted of Contributing to 12-Year-Old Son's SuicideBy Diane Scarponi Associated Press WriterPublished: Oct 6, 2003 MERIDEN, Conn. (AP) - A woman was convicted Monday of contributing to the suicide of her 12-year-old son, who hanged himself in his closet with a necktie after being picked on for months at school over his bad breath and body odor. Judith Scruggs, 52, was found guilty of one count of risk of injury to a minor for creating a filthy home that prosecutors said prevented J. Daniel Scruggs from improving his hygiene. She faces up to 10 years in prison. Scruggs...

WHITE COOTS. WHITE BOOTS Curly’s Corner in Seabrook, Texas in the ’50s was an island in the road, an oasis, a landmark of a general store for crabbers and fishermen. It bobbed like a cork in the roadway at the confluence of Texas Farm to Market Road 528 (now Nasa Road One a/k/a the Texas Blue Star Highway) and State Highway 146 (soon to be one peg leg of the Grand Parkway or Outer Belt). Curly’s Corner was relentlessly lathered and shaved through the years of highway widenings like the lopped off locks on the floor at the Carlos of...

Open-Air Nuthouse I've said before that our poor country sometimes resembles an open-air insane asylum. Alas, here are two more pieces of evidence to support that assertion: 1. New York City has decided to fund a high school strictly for homosexuals. 2. The Pentagon planned to set up a "futures market" in which investors could speculate on such things as terrorist acts, assassinations and the overthrow of governments. As Jack Paar used to say, "I kid you not." Fortunately, enough people in Congress were outraged by this latest wacky idea from the Pentagon that the fearless bureaucrats have backed off....

Citizens for a Sound Economy June 19, 2003 By : Rob Jordan Going “Toe-to-Toe” with The Organized Left Michigan CSE protests Senator Levin’s blocking of judicial nominees Brighton, MI - The powerful Union forces of the organized left were in for shock when they encountered a highly organized and well-poised group of CSE activists at an annual event featuring U.S. Senator Carl Levin (D-MI). The Michigan Chapter of CSE turned out the troops to demonstrate opposition to Levin’s blocking of the federal judicial nominations made by President Bush. The rally was headed by Steve Williams, a Michigan CSE Volunteer Chapter...

When Internet users log onto schoolscandals.com and click on the Beverly Hills High School link, they will find a message calling one student a "retard" who "deserves to go to hell." A posting in the Frost Middle School chat room describes a student as a "homosexual with a pigeon-like face and a penguin-like body." Such name-calling and gossip about students are common on the 3-year-old Web site, similar to the crude messages scribbled inside of school bathroom stalls for decades but on a much larger scale.

<p>Ten current and former students at the Grover Cleveland Middle School in Dorchester allegedly attacked fellow students because they were white or refugees from Afghanistan and West Africa, according to a state civil rights complaint filed yesterday.</p> <p>Prosecutors from Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly's office, who were called to the school to investigate alleged racial violence, yesterday urged a state judge to issue an order barring the students from having any contact with the girls they are accused of attacking in recent months. Seven of the accused students are African-American girls, one is a Hispanic girl, and the other two are African-American boys. They range in age from 12 to 14.</p>

GOP warning: Sanchez staff should be considered armed and dangerous 9/23/2002 The Republican Party of Texas issued a tongue-in-cheek AVB (All Voters Bulletin) today warning Texans not to open the door to Sanchez campaign workers, who should be considered armed and dangerous. According to the Brazosport Facts, a man paid by the Tony Sanchez campaign to perform door-to-door canvassing was arrested Sunday for allegedly pulling a gun on a truck driver after an argument. After the incident was reported by news organizations, a police officer informed the suspect that the Sanchez campaign had fired him. “Texas voters should be advised...

California--A Republican group said yesterday that GOP gubernatorial nominee Bill Simon would be dropped from a fundraiser with Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, Mary Cheney, because he reneged on a promise to declare a Gay Pride Day if elected. The Republican Unity Coalition, formed to promote ties between gays and non-homosexuals, said Simon would not be welcome at a fundraiser tomorrow in Los Angeles.

MONTREAL - An alarming percentage of students justify bullying in schools by telling themselves everything from "victims deserve it" to "getting bullied helps make people tougher," according to a Canadian study presented yesterday at the 15th meeting of the International Society for Research on Aggression. The study surveyed the bullying practices and attitudes of nearly 500 secondary school students in a Vancouver-area school. Though it found only 12% of students reported being bullied once a week and 13% of students said they bullied others on a regular basis, nearly 40% of students condoned bullying in their upper middle-class school by...