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Bullying on the rise as bullies turn to social media; Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marc Scaringi
Written by Scott LaMar, Radio Smart Talk Host/Executive Producer | Apr 9, 2012 8:08 PM
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Radio Smart Talk for Tuesday, April 10:
Research shows that 77% of all students in grades K-12 have been bullied at one time or another. Actually, the number of kids or young adults who have been or are being bullied is increasing because now bullies are using social media and the internet to intimidate, belittle and and exert their power. In many cases, cyber bullying is taking the place of physical or verbal bullying.
KidsPeace, a Lehigh Valley-based organization that serves the behavioral and mental needs of children and their families, has started a new interactive website called the Anti-Bullying League.
Appearing on Tuesday's program will be Julius Licata, the director of KidsPeace's TeenCentral.net and ParentCentral.net to discuss bullying and how to prevent it.
Have you ever been bullied? Tell us your story.
Also, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Marc Scaringi joins us to discuss his candidacy and the issues as the April 24 primary in Pennsylvania approaches.
WITF's Election 2012 coverage is supported by the Harrisburg office of the law firm of Saul Ewing LLP.
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Barbara
2012-04-10 12:46
My daughter attended public school from 1st - 6th grades. During her 5th & 6th grade years, she was the victim of "mean girls" behavior - the social bullying girls do out of the watchful eye of adults. When we asked for help in the form of skills she could develop to remove herself from the victim role, we were told it was our fault for not raising her to be tougher. When we asked if she could do something during recess, when the bullying was the worst, we were told we needed to cut the apron strings. Essentially, our daughter's issues with bullies were always our fault. After 6th grade, we sent her to York Catholic, with the promise if it continued we would home school her. She's now in 9th grade there and happy. She loves school, has fantastic friends, and is thriving socially and academically.
That public school failed her. We're grateful to have found a safe environment for her, but very sad that the school hid behind blame and couldn't face the problem.
CobraBob
2012-04-10 13:01
Bullies Beware! The "Stand Your Ground" law has changed the dynamics of bullying. "I feared for my life" is not a high legal barrier to jump over, as we are seeing in the Florida Martin-Zimmerman case. Some old cliches that apply now: 1] An armed society is a POLITE society. And, 2] God created man, but Col Sam Colt made men truly EQUAL...
Rebecca
2012-04-10 13:17
The example of the teen-age beauty queen may show how bullying has changed. It seems bullying used to target victims who were perceived as weak. Now it seems based much more on victims who are perceived as just different. We are a highly diverse society but one that appears devoted to English only. I wonder whether world language programs such as dual immersion would help children -- bullies, victims, and onlookers alike -- develop more empathy and thus reduce bullying.
Jane Jackson
2012-04-10 13:29
i was repeatedly humiliated by a pa. State Secretary of an agency. I had no where to go for help because he was a political appointee. what could i have done?
Pete
2012-04-10 13:33
Children or teenagers need to see allowing others to be bullied as a violation of justice. Teenagers often do not want adults to be visibly intervening as they feel that this will only embarrass them and make the problem worse. Something like bullying needs to be dealt with much like racism. If a person in our society tells a racist joke or makes a racist comment it brings an immediate and swift response from peers who are present, to the extent that some even grow paranoid of being perceived as a racist. Bullying should be the same way, potential bullies should feel that acting out on their oppressive impulses would lower themselves in the eyes of their peers. This would directly counter the interest of many bullies; they feel that exercising power over a weaker person builds them up in both their own eyes and those of others.
Anonymous
2012-04-10 13:36
I recently left a great job with a prominent central PA nonprofit where the executive director is an insecure, Napoleonic bully to the staff and volunteers -- yet puts on a very different face while talking to the board. I can't imagine what this sad little man endured as a child that made him this way - although he has alluded to problems with adoptive parents. I left my job and am happily employed elsewhere. Staff and volunteers have complained to the board about his terrible treatment, but it seems to no avail. He actually has justified his behavior with an article on bullying he found - twisting its message to suit him. Is there any other recourse for dealing with a bully boss besides leaving a job you (used to) love?
Robert Colgan
2012-04-10 13:47
All domestic abuse/domestic violence (DA/DV) is bullying.
We need to expand our working understanding of what bullying is, who is doing it, and what legal recourses we can implement to cease the victimization.
Right now the stalking law is a powerful tool that not enough prosecutors are using.....documentation of all incidents, however trivial, is required for successful litigation. Save all eMails, print webpages if possible, save phone messages, photos----anything which serves as evidence of the stalking.