School bullying video shows how people with disabilities are devalued: advocates
The Canadian Press
Advocates say a disturbing video showing a Cape Breton teen’s classmate walking over him in a stream demonstrates how the lives of people with disabilities are often devalued.
Brett Corbett, who has cerebral palsy, told his mother Terri McEachern that he has forgiven the bullies who apologized to him, but he still feels unsafe returning to his high school.
His story has captured the world’s attention, and John Rae of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities said Corbett may have grounds for a human rights complaint against his school.
“It shows how the lives of people with disabilities are devalued,” Rae said.
The 14-year-old boy’s family saw the video, but it didn’t become public until a girl posted it on social media to counter those who said the incident didn’t happen.
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Bias-Based Bullying Does More Harm, Is Harder to Protect Against
by Elan Hope, Kelly Lynn Mulvey, Matt Shipman – NC State News
A new study finds that bias-based bullying does more harm to students than generalized bullying, particularly for students who are targeted because of multiple identities, such as race and gender. What’s more, the study finds that efforts to mitigate these harms are less effective against bias-based bullying.
“Bias-based bullying is when children are bullied because of some aspect of their social identity, whether that’s race, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability or sexual orientation,” says Kelly Lynn Mulvey, an assistant professor of psychology at North Carolina State University and corresponding author of a paper on the work. “Multiple bias-based bullying is when children are targeted because of two or more aspects of their social identity. These both differ from generalized bullying, in which kids are targeted because of things like their academic interests, being the new kid at school or their fashion choices.”
“We wanted to know whether the effects of bullying varied depending on why a child was bullied,” says Elan Hope, an assistant professor of psychology at NC State and a co-author of the paper. “Specifically, we wanted to know if outcomes differed when kids are targeted because of social biases.”
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ADEA Given Broader Reach than Title VII: Supreme Court Rules ADEA Covers Political Subdivisions with Less than 20 Employees
by Rachel L. Berry, National Law Review
On Tuesday November 6, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (“ADEA”) applies to state and local government employers with fewer than 20 employees. The Supreme Court’s decision, in Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido, affirmed the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal’s ruling and resolved a Circuit Court split regarding the ADEA’s coverage of public employers.
Due to budgetary shortfalls, the Mount Lemmon Fire District, a political subdivision in Arizona, terminated its two oldest full-time firefighters, John Guido and Dennis Rankin, who sued alleging discrimination under the ADEA. Mount Lemmon sought dismissal of the case on the grounds that it was not an employer as defined and covered by the ADEA.