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From: Barbara Chrz-White <bchrzwhite>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:49:15 -0500
I feel this is a home-school issue, not one or the other, and yes I do believe books can help kids feel less alone if they're being bullied. Dealing with the self-concept of a bullied individual is a delicate issue. To me the more predominant issue is dealing with the bully to prevent more occurrences. School counselors and social workers should be dealing with these issues on an individual and group basis.
Barb White
On 3/18/08 3:59 PM, "Sherryl Clark" <sherrylc1 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> There are a lot of bullying programs that don't work because bullying
>> isn't being consistently addressed from classroom to classroom, in the
>> school bathrooms and hallways, on the playgrounds and on the buses.
>> Reducing aggression in schools requires a systematic, comprehensive
>> approach which includes setting clear standards for acceptable behavior,
>> implementing consistent consequences for actions that are likely to hurt
>> others, and providing education about bullying to every student.
>
>
> You might be interested to hear about John Marsden's school,
> Candlebark, here in Australia (near Melbourne). Marsden is a very
> popular children's and YA author, former teacher, who has started a
> new school on his property.
>
> In a recent documentary on the school, he said that the school policy
> for the students was that no one was allowed to exclude anyone from
> games or play - the kids are of a wide range of ages, and this means
> that even little kids can join in big kids' games. His intention was
> quite clear - that he would eradicate any bullying by setting these
> as firm policies, school-wide. I believe it's working well.
>
> Sherryl Clark
>
>
> Sherryl's website is at http://www.sherrylclark.com/ -- her blog is
> at http://www.sherrylclark.blogspot.com/
> Check out her new site at http://www.poetry4kids.net - it's all about
> poetry for kids!
> Tracey Binns is Trouble - new - out May 2008!
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Received on Tue 18 Mar 2008 05:49:15 PM CDT
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:49:15 -0500
I feel this is a home-school issue, not one or the other, and yes I do believe books can help kids feel less alone if they're being bullied. Dealing with the self-concept of a bullied individual is a delicate issue. To me the more predominant issue is dealing with the bully to prevent more occurrences. School counselors and social workers should be dealing with these issues on an individual and group basis.
Barb White
On 3/18/08 3:59 PM, "Sherryl Clark" <sherrylc1 at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>>
>> There are a lot of bullying programs that don't work because bullying
>> isn't being consistently addressed from classroom to classroom, in the
>> school bathrooms and hallways, on the playgrounds and on the buses.
>> Reducing aggression in schools requires a systematic, comprehensive
>> approach which includes setting clear standards for acceptable behavior,
>> implementing consistent consequences for actions that are likely to hurt
>> others, and providing education about bullying to every student.
>
>
> You might be interested to hear about John Marsden's school,
> Candlebark, here in Australia (near Melbourne). Marsden is a very
> popular children's and YA author, former teacher, who has started a
> new school on his property.
>
> In a recent documentary on the school, he said that the school policy
> for the students was that no one was allowed to exclude anyone from
> games or play - the kids are of a wide range of ages, and this means
> that even little kids can join in big kids' games. His intention was
> quite clear - that he would eradicate any bullying by setting these
> as firm policies, school-wide. I believe it's working well.
>
> Sherryl Clark
>
>
> Sherryl's website is at http://www.sherrylclark.com/ -- her blog is
> at http://www.sherrylclark.blogspot.com/
> Check out her new site at http://www.poetry4kids.net - it's all about
> poetry for kids!
> Tracey Binns is Trouble - new - out May 2008!
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> CCBC-Net mailing list
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