Monica Lewinsky lists insults she’s endured as part of anti-bullying campaign
BY JUDY KURTZ, The Hill
(Note: Monica Lewinsky will be keynote speaker at next week’s annual conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association in San Diego. – Mike Tully)
Monica Lewinsky is reciting many of the vulgar names she’s been called over the years in a new anti-bullying PSA.
“Slut, bimbo, floozy, vixen, tramp,” Lewinsky says to the camera in a video she posted on Twitter on Thursday.
“That woman,” Lewinsky continues, a reference to then-President Clinton’s famous denial of having a relationship with her in 1998, when he said at a news conference, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman…Ms. Lewinsky.”
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Bullying incidents on the rise in Baltimore County schools — renewing debate about zero-tolerance discipline
By Liz Bowie, The Baltimore Sun
The bullying of Terry Anderson’s son began, she said, in sixth grade at Sparrows Point Middle School.
He was kicked in the head, thrown against the lockers and choked. The bullies called him bad words — words the boy with learning disabilities didn’t understand, she said.
By the end of seventh grade, his mother said, he was saying he didn’t want to live anymore and was being taught at home through a Baltimore County public school program.
“Right now he is afraid to walk in the school building,” said Anderson, who blames the school system for not protecting her child.
Anderson is one voice among many parents pressing for tougher discipline for students in Baltimore County schools, which have the highest number of bullying reports of any large school system in the state — and the county’s reports are growing.
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Quarter of high school teachers say they are bullied
By Pallavi Singhal, Sydney Morning Herald
Nearly a quarter of high school teachers in NSW public schools say they have been bullied, primarily by managers or other teachers, in the past year and more than 40 per cent say they have witnessed bullying in that period.
Both primary and secondary teachers in government schools say they are finding it more difficult to cope with stress at work and more teachers say they are not being paid fairly for the work than other public sector employees, the results of the latest People Matters Employee Survey have revealed.
This year, 23 per cent of high school teachers said they have been subjected to bullying at work in the last 12 months, while another 7 per cent said they “don’t know” if they have experienced bullying.
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Bullying costs our kids nearly a year of learning
By REBECCA URBAN, The Australian
Children who experience persistent emotional and behavioural problems, or are subjected to bullying, lose up to a year’s learning by the time they hit secondary school, according to disturbing new research.
The latest report from the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’s groundbreaking Childhood to Adolescence Transition Study has revealed that about 20 per cent of young people had reported ongoing symptoms of anxiety and depression, with a similar amount showing continuing behavioural problems, significantly hampering their learning progress between Years 3 and 7.
The release of the Student Wellbeing, Engagement and Learning across the Middle Years report comes as Beyond Blue prepares to unveil today a multi-million-dollar plan to boost mental health support services for young people, starting from preschool.