The boysrsquo favorite things to do together are play video games

talk about video games and taunt each

other This sort of taunting is tolerable a

sign of affection almost coming as it

does from true friends

THE MAIN CHARACTERSERIC ELLIS

JACKIE TAYLORELIZABETH GINSBURG

JIMMY SCHISSELLILY MASON

MAIN TOPICSCOMMUNICATIONRELATIONSHIPS

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDSTEACHER PERSPECTIVES

BULLYING

COMMUNICATION

In the nineteenth century people came calling in the twentieth century they phoned and now preteens communicate on the Internet They type to each other fast as thirty-dollar-an-hour secretaries (except that secretaries can spell) one instant-message box on the screen for each conversation

Wus^NMJC

RELATIONSHIPS

Sometimes the stars converge and a boy and girl actually go out ldquoOutrdquo these first times would better be described as ldquoinrdquo either because of

discomfort or lack of opportunities A few awkward phone calls a lot of empty instant-messaging a mildly flirtatious note or two a slow dance at the

school social no kisses no dates Still the elation could be immense and the heartbreak inevitable

rejection being the most miserable thing imaginable

RELATIONSHIPSmdashBOYS AND GIRLS

It seems like everyone is ganging up on me these days and taking sides like Irsquom a nobodyrdquo one

seventh grader says ldquoLike one day wersquoll be really cool and hanging out and the next day one of them is all mad at me for saying the wrong thingrdquo God this sort of thing drives Ms Thomas nuts ldquoBest friends one day and the next day they hate each

other And the girls just donrsquot let it go Boys if they have an issue they get it out and itrsquos over Girls it

can linger for quite a while So dramatic Ugh

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

Just like that Jimmy has stopped sitting up in bed wondering about the universe ldquoIrsquom not that curious anymorerdquo he says This too is part of the changes engulfing him as he enters adolescence No

longer is pleasing his parents a major factor in the equation of how to spend his time Just the contrary For reasons he cannot figure out even while itrsquos happeningmdashand not like he loves them any lessmdashJimmy like his peers finds great sport in contradicting

his mother and father

Kids donrsquot dance face to face anymore A boy approaches a girl from behind and grinds his groin against her butt At school and church dances the chaperones act as freak cops But at teen dance clubs like the one a half-hour away in suburban Baltimore where a few Wilde Lake kids have gone children as young as eleven simulate sex on the dance floor as rappers bleat about oral gratification

(87)

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Itrsquos no mystery to the staff that Ericrsquos home situation has a huge amount to do with his academic problems and

his behavior and that worse problems could emerge soon if it

doesnrsquot improve

TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

A teacher can give students a dozen opportunities to retake the quiz they bombedmdashCome in before school At study hall At lunch After schoolmdashand they wonrsquot either because they forget or because their time is too important to them A child can be asked again and again

how her social studies project is coming and shersquoll say itrsquos done then the day before itrsquos due she asks for help

ldquoMiddle-school kidsrdquo Ms Thomas says ldquohave to move around They have to be able to talk they want to be engaged in what theyrsquore

learning and you really canrsquot do anything in the classroom for more than fifteen or twenty minutes without losing the classrdquo A teacher

learns at a middle school seminar to divide his class into four segments the teacher speaking the students speaking the students

working alone the students working in groups When the teacher doesnrsquot make movement a priority the students fidget

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

THE MAIN CHARACTERSERIC ELLIS

JACKIE TAYLORELIZABETH GINSBURG

JIMMY SCHISSELLILY MASON

MAIN TOPICSCOMMUNICATIONRELATIONSHIPS

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDSTEACHER PERSPECTIVES

BULLYING

COMMUNICATION

In the nineteenth century people came calling in the twentieth century they phoned and now preteens communicate on the Internet They type to each other fast as thirty-dollar-an-hour secretaries (except that secretaries can spell) one instant-message box on the screen for each conversation

Wus^NMJC

RELATIONSHIPS

Sometimes the stars converge and a boy and girl actually go out ldquoOutrdquo these first times would better be described as ldquoinrdquo either because of

discomfort or lack of opportunities A few awkward phone calls a lot of empty instant-messaging a mildly flirtatious note or two a slow dance at the

school social no kisses no dates Still the elation could be immense and the heartbreak inevitable

rejection being the most miserable thing imaginable

RELATIONSHIPSmdashBOYS AND GIRLS

It seems like everyone is ganging up on me these days and taking sides like Irsquom a nobodyrdquo one

seventh grader says ldquoLike one day wersquoll be really cool and hanging out and the next day one of them is all mad at me for saying the wrong thingrdquo God this sort of thing drives Ms Thomas nuts ldquoBest friends one day and the next day they hate each

other And the girls just donrsquot let it go Boys if they have an issue they get it out and itrsquos over Girls it

can linger for quite a while So dramatic Ugh

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

Just like that Jimmy has stopped sitting up in bed wondering about the universe ldquoIrsquom not that curious anymorerdquo he says This too is part of the changes engulfing him as he enters adolescence No

longer is pleasing his parents a major factor in the equation of how to spend his time Just the contrary For reasons he cannot figure out even while itrsquos happeningmdashand not like he loves them any lessmdashJimmy like his peers finds great sport in contradicting

his mother and father

Kids donrsquot dance face to face anymore A boy approaches a girl from behind and grinds his groin against her butt At school and church dances the chaperones act as freak cops But at teen dance clubs like the one a half-hour away in suburban Baltimore where a few Wilde Lake kids have gone children as young as eleven simulate sex on the dance floor as rappers bleat about oral gratification

(87)

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Itrsquos no mystery to the staff that Ericrsquos home situation has a huge amount to do with his academic problems and

his behavior and that worse problems could emerge soon if it

doesnrsquot improve

TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

A teacher can give students a dozen opportunities to retake the quiz they bombedmdashCome in before school At study hall At lunch After schoolmdashand they wonrsquot either because they forget or because their time is too important to them A child can be asked again and again

how her social studies project is coming and shersquoll say itrsquos done then the day before itrsquos due she asks for help

ldquoMiddle-school kidsrdquo Ms Thomas says ldquohave to move around They have to be able to talk they want to be engaged in what theyrsquore

learning and you really canrsquot do anything in the classroom for more than fifteen or twenty minutes without losing the classrdquo A teacher

learns at a middle school seminar to divide his class into four segments the teacher speaking the students speaking the students

working alone the students working in groups When the teacher doesnrsquot make movement a priority the students fidget

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

MAIN TOPICSCOMMUNICATIONRELATIONSHIPS

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDSTEACHER PERSPECTIVES

BULLYING

COMMUNICATION

In the nineteenth century people came calling in the twentieth century they phoned and now preteens communicate on the Internet They type to each other fast as thirty-dollar-an-hour secretaries (except that secretaries can spell) one instant-message box on the screen for each conversation

Wus^NMJC

RELATIONSHIPS

Sometimes the stars converge and a boy and girl actually go out ldquoOutrdquo these first times would better be described as ldquoinrdquo either because of

discomfort or lack of opportunities A few awkward phone calls a lot of empty instant-messaging a mildly flirtatious note or two a slow dance at the

school social no kisses no dates Still the elation could be immense and the heartbreak inevitable

rejection being the most miserable thing imaginable

RELATIONSHIPSmdashBOYS AND GIRLS

It seems like everyone is ganging up on me these days and taking sides like Irsquom a nobodyrdquo one

seventh grader says ldquoLike one day wersquoll be really cool and hanging out and the next day one of them is all mad at me for saying the wrong thingrdquo God this sort of thing drives Ms Thomas nuts ldquoBest friends one day and the next day they hate each

other And the girls just donrsquot let it go Boys if they have an issue they get it out and itrsquos over Girls it

can linger for quite a while So dramatic Ugh

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

Just like that Jimmy has stopped sitting up in bed wondering about the universe ldquoIrsquom not that curious anymorerdquo he says This too is part of the changes engulfing him as he enters adolescence No

longer is pleasing his parents a major factor in the equation of how to spend his time Just the contrary For reasons he cannot figure out even while itrsquos happeningmdashand not like he loves them any lessmdashJimmy like his peers finds great sport in contradicting

his mother and father

Kids donrsquot dance face to face anymore A boy approaches a girl from behind and grinds his groin against her butt At school and church dances the chaperones act as freak cops But at teen dance clubs like the one a half-hour away in suburban Baltimore where a few Wilde Lake kids have gone children as young as eleven simulate sex on the dance floor as rappers bleat about oral gratification

(87)

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Itrsquos no mystery to the staff that Ericrsquos home situation has a huge amount to do with his academic problems and

his behavior and that worse problems could emerge soon if it

doesnrsquot improve

TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

A teacher can give students a dozen opportunities to retake the quiz they bombedmdashCome in before school At study hall At lunch After schoolmdashand they wonrsquot either because they forget or because their time is too important to them A child can be asked again and again

how her social studies project is coming and shersquoll say itrsquos done then the day before itrsquos due she asks for help

ldquoMiddle-school kidsrdquo Ms Thomas says ldquohave to move around They have to be able to talk they want to be engaged in what theyrsquore

learning and you really canrsquot do anything in the classroom for more than fifteen or twenty minutes without losing the classrdquo A teacher

learns at a middle school seminar to divide his class into four segments the teacher speaking the students speaking the students

working alone the students working in groups When the teacher doesnrsquot make movement a priority the students fidget

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

COMMUNICATION

In the nineteenth century people came calling in the twentieth century they phoned and now preteens communicate on the Internet They type to each other fast as thirty-dollar-an-hour secretaries (except that secretaries can spell) one instant-message box on the screen for each conversation

Wus^NMJC

RELATIONSHIPS

Sometimes the stars converge and a boy and girl actually go out ldquoOutrdquo these first times would better be described as ldquoinrdquo either because of

discomfort or lack of opportunities A few awkward phone calls a lot of empty instant-messaging a mildly flirtatious note or two a slow dance at the

school social no kisses no dates Still the elation could be immense and the heartbreak inevitable

rejection being the most miserable thing imaginable

RELATIONSHIPSmdashBOYS AND GIRLS

It seems like everyone is ganging up on me these days and taking sides like Irsquom a nobodyrdquo one

seventh grader says ldquoLike one day wersquoll be really cool and hanging out and the next day one of them is all mad at me for saying the wrong thingrdquo God this sort of thing drives Ms Thomas nuts ldquoBest friends one day and the next day they hate each

other And the girls just donrsquot let it go Boys if they have an issue they get it out and itrsquos over Girls it

can linger for quite a while So dramatic Ugh

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

Just like that Jimmy has stopped sitting up in bed wondering about the universe ldquoIrsquom not that curious anymorerdquo he says This too is part of the changes engulfing him as he enters adolescence No

longer is pleasing his parents a major factor in the equation of how to spend his time Just the contrary For reasons he cannot figure out even while itrsquos happeningmdashand not like he loves them any lessmdashJimmy like his peers finds great sport in contradicting

his mother and father

Kids donrsquot dance face to face anymore A boy approaches a girl from behind and grinds his groin against her butt At school and church dances the chaperones act as freak cops But at teen dance clubs like the one a half-hour away in suburban Baltimore where a few Wilde Lake kids have gone children as young as eleven simulate sex on the dance floor as rappers bleat about oral gratification

(87)

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Itrsquos no mystery to the staff that Ericrsquos home situation has a huge amount to do with his academic problems and

his behavior and that worse problems could emerge soon if it

doesnrsquot improve

TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

A teacher can give students a dozen opportunities to retake the quiz they bombedmdashCome in before school At study hall At lunch After schoolmdashand they wonrsquot either because they forget or because their time is too important to them A child can be asked again and again

how her social studies project is coming and shersquoll say itrsquos done then the day before itrsquos due she asks for help

ldquoMiddle-school kidsrdquo Ms Thomas says ldquohave to move around They have to be able to talk they want to be engaged in what theyrsquore

learning and you really canrsquot do anything in the classroom for more than fifteen or twenty minutes without losing the classrdquo A teacher

learns at a middle school seminar to divide his class into four segments the teacher speaking the students speaking the students

working alone the students working in groups When the teacher doesnrsquot make movement a priority the students fidget

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

RELATIONSHIPS

Sometimes the stars converge and a boy and girl actually go out ldquoOutrdquo these first times would better be described as ldquoinrdquo either because of

discomfort or lack of opportunities A few awkward phone calls a lot of empty instant-messaging a mildly flirtatious note or two a slow dance at the

school social no kisses no dates Still the elation could be immense and the heartbreak inevitable

rejection being the most miserable thing imaginable

RELATIONSHIPSmdashBOYS AND GIRLS

It seems like everyone is ganging up on me these days and taking sides like Irsquom a nobodyrdquo one

seventh grader says ldquoLike one day wersquoll be really cool and hanging out and the next day one of them is all mad at me for saying the wrong thingrdquo God this sort of thing drives Ms Thomas nuts ldquoBest friends one day and the next day they hate each

other And the girls just donrsquot let it go Boys if they have an issue they get it out and itrsquos over Girls it

can linger for quite a while So dramatic Ugh

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

Just like that Jimmy has stopped sitting up in bed wondering about the universe ldquoIrsquom not that curious anymorerdquo he says This too is part of the changes engulfing him as he enters adolescence No

longer is pleasing his parents a major factor in the equation of how to spend his time Just the contrary For reasons he cannot figure out even while itrsquos happeningmdashand not like he loves them any lessmdashJimmy like his peers finds great sport in contradicting

his mother and father

Kids donrsquot dance face to face anymore A boy approaches a girl from behind and grinds his groin against her butt At school and church dances the chaperones act as freak cops But at teen dance clubs like the one a half-hour away in suburban Baltimore where a few Wilde Lake kids have gone children as young as eleven simulate sex on the dance floor as rappers bleat about oral gratification

(87)

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Itrsquos no mystery to the staff that Ericrsquos home situation has a huge amount to do with his academic problems and

his behavior and that worse problems could emerge soon if it

doesnrsquot improve

TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

A teacher can give students a dozen opportunities to retake the quiz they bombedmdashCome in before school At study hall At lunch After schoolmdashand they wonrsquot either because they forget or because their time is too important to them A child can be asked again and again

how her social studies project is coming and shersquoll say itrsquos done then the day before itrsquos due she asks for help

ldquoMiddle-school kidsrdquo Ms Thomas says ldquohave to move around They have to be able to talk they want to be engaged in what theyrsquore

learning and you really canrsquot do anything in the classroom for more than fifteen or twenty minutes without losing the classrdquo A teacher

learns at a middle school seminar to divide his class into four segments the teacher speaking the students speaking the students

working alone the students working in groups When the teacher doesnrsquot make movement a priority the students fidget

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

RELATIONSHIPSmdashBOYS AND GIRLS

It seems like everyone is ganging up on me these days and taking sides like Irsquom a nobodyrdquo one

seventh grader says ldquoLike one day wersquoll be really cool and hanging out and the next day one of them is all mad at me for saying the wrong thingrdquo God this sort of thing drives Ms Thomas nuts ldquoBest friends one day and the next day they hate each

other And the girls just donrsquot let it go Boys if they have an issue they get it out and itrsquos over Girls it

can linger for quite a while So dramatic Ugh

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

Just like that Jimmy has stopped sitting up in bed wondering about the universe ldquoIrsquom not that curious anymorerdquo he says This too is part of the changes engulfing him as he enters adolescence No

longer is pleasing his parents a major factor in the equation of how to spend his time Just the contrary For reasons he cannot figure out even while itrsquos happeningmdashand not like he loves them any lessmdashJimmy like his peers finds great sport in contradicting

his mother and father

Kids donrsquot dance face to face anymore A boy approaches a girl from behind and grinds his groin against her butt At school and church dances the chaperones act as freak cops But at teen dance clubs like the one a half-hour away in suburban Baltimore where a few Wilde Lake kids have gone children as young as eleven simulate sex on the dance floor as rappers bleat about oral gratification

(87)

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Itrsquos no mystery to the staff that Ericrsquos home situation has a huge amount to do with his academic problems and

his behavior and that worse problems could emerge soon if it

doesnrsquot improve

TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

A teacher can give students a dozen opportunities to retake the quiz they bombedmdashCome in before school At study hall At lunch After schoolmdashand they wonrsquot either because they forget or because their time is too important to them A child can be asked again and again

how her social studies project is coming and shersquoll say itrsquos done then the day before itrsquos due she asks for help

ldquoMiddle-school kidsrdquo Ms Thomas says ldquohave to move around They have to be able to talk they want to be engaged in what theyrsquore

learning and you really canrsquot do anything in the classroom for more than fifteen or twenty minutes without losing the classrdquo A teacher

learns at a middle school seminar to divide his class into four segments the teacher speaking the students speaking the students

working alone the students working in groups When the teacher doesnrsquot make movement a priority the students fidget

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

BEHAVIORAL CHANGES IN ADOLESCENTS

Just like that Jimmy has stopped sitting up in bed wondering about the universe ldquoIrsquom not that curious anymorerdquo he says This too is part of the changes engulfing him as he enters adolescence No

longer is pleasing his parents a major factor in the equation of how to spend his time Just the contrary For reasons he cannot figure out even while itrsquos happeningmdashand not like he loves them any lessmdashJimmy like his peers finds great sport in contradicting

his mother and father

Kids donrsquot dance face to face anymore A boy approaches a girl from behind and grinds his groin against her butt At school and church dances the chaperones act as freak cops But at teen dance clubs like the one a half-hour away in suburban Baltimore where a few Wilde Lake kids have gone children as young as eleven simulate sex on the dance floor as rappers bleat about oral gratification

(87)

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Itrsquos no mystery to the staff that Ericrsquos home situation has a huge amount to do with his academic problems and

his behavior and that worse problems could emerge soon if it

doesnrsquot improve

TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

A teacher can give students a dozen opportunities to retake the quiz they bombedmdashCome in before school At study hall At lunch After schoolmdashand they wonrsquot either because they forget or because their time is too important to them A child can be asked again and again

how her social studies project is coming and shersquoll say itrsquos done then the day before itrsquos due she asks for help

ldquoMiddle-school kidsrdquo Ms Thomas says ldquohave to move around They have to be able to talk they want to be engaged in what theyrsquore

learning and you really canrsquot do anything in the classroom for more than fifteen or twenty minutes without losing the classrdquo A teacher

learns at a middle school seminar to divide his class into four segments the teacher speaking the students speaking the students

working alone the students working in groups When the teacher doesnrsquot make movement a priority the students fidget

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

MASLOWrsquoS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

Itrsquos no mystery to the staff that Ericrsquos home situation has a huge amount to do with his academic problems and

his behavior and that worse problems could emerge soon if it

doesnrsquot improve

TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

A teacher can give students a dozen opportunities to retake the quiz they bombedmdashCome in before school At study hall At lunch After schoolmdashand they wonrsquot either because they forget or because their time is too important to them A child can be asked again and again

how her social studies project is coming and shersquoll say itrsquos done then the day before itrsquos due she asks for help

ldquoMiddle-school kidsrdquo Ms Thomas says ldquohave to move around They have to be able to talk they want to be engaged in what theyrsquore

learning and you really canrsquot do anything in the classroom for more than fifteen or twenty minutes without losing the classrdquo A teacher

learns at a middle school seminar to divide his class into four segments the teacher speaking the students speaking the students

working alone the students working in groups When the teacher doesnrsquot make movement a priority the students fidget

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

TEACHER PERSPECTIVES

A teacher can give students a dozen opportunities to retake the quiz they bombedmdashCome in before school At study hall At lunch After schoolmdashand they wonrsquot either because they forget or because their time is too important to them A child can be asked again and again

how her social studies project is coming and shersquoll say itrsquos done then the day before itrsquos due she asks for help

ldquoMiddle-school kidsrdquo Ms Thomas says ldquohave to move around They have to be able to talk they want to be engaged in what theyrsquore

learning and you really canrsquot do anything in the classroom for more than fifteen or twenty minutes without losing the classrdquo A teacher

learns at a middle school seminar to divide his class into four segments the teacher speaking the students speaking the students

working alone the students working in groups When the teacher doesnrsquot make movement a priority the students fidget

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

BULLYING IN SCHOOLSDodge ball has been banned this year in the Howard County public

schoolsmdashtoo violent too humiliating In a way middle school is a game of dodge ball except instead of a red ball you avoid

annoying people

Teasing is some people had their way would become a federal crime Brightly colored pamphlets tout efforts like the National Education

Associationrsquos National Bullying Awareness Campaign ldquobully proofingrdquo schools is debated on the floors of Congress with that

idea that bullying is why angry teens turn guns on their classmates Miss America takes it up as her platform Just like

with sexual harassment schools teach prevention

Lily has been pleading with Mia to do an act together at the outdoor-ed talent show and even though they did one last year Mia says no way ldquoThis is middle schoolrdquo she says ldquoPeople look for the

littlest thing to pick you apartrdquo

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

WHATrsquoS THE WORST THEY CAN SAY

Gay Used to describe an activity say or a book itrsquos a simple synonym for ldquolamerdquo Used to describe a person itrsquos the biggest insult in the male middle-school lexicon If someone called you gay a boy this age figures it would be even more upsetting

than if he spied on you in the shower or pulled your pants down or even made you touch him A boy

knows he canrsquot deviate or hersquos a ldquofagrdquo Not being a fag preoccupies him Being normal preoccupies

him

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

BULLYING IN SCHOOLS

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

THOUGHTS

The section of the brain where thoughts about notes and gymnastics jackets once resided is now occupied

by thoughts about themselves

There came a time when it was no longer okay to be nicehelliphelliphellip

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

THEN THIS HAPPENShelliphellip

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

DID THEY DO ENOUGH

THATrsquoS WHAT THEY ALWAYS SAYEDUCATE

RAISE AWARENESS

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

Hash=8ac750a9b2amputm_source=twitterfeedamputm_medium=twitter

FOLLOW ME ON TWITTERAND SHARE YOUR BULLYING STORIES

TEACHERSPGROOFOLLOW THESE GREAT TWITTER

FEEDSStopBullyingNow

bullybustRatsandBullies

AnEndToBullyingTheBullyProject

REFERENCES

Alexander B (2010 October 2) The Bullying of Seth Walsh Requiem for a Small-Town Boy Time

Danah Boyd AM (2011 September 22) Bullying as True Drama The New York Times

Department of Health and Human Services (nd) Retrieved November 5 2011 from wwwstopbullyinggov

httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

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Chronicle

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httpwwwstopbullyinggovindexhtml

OrsquoHare P (2010 September 27) Parents Bullying drove Cy-Fair 8th grader to suicide Houston

Chronicle

Orciari M (2011 November 9) Adolescents report weight as primary reason for bullying at school Yale News

Perlstein L (2003) Not Much Just Chillinrsquo The hidden lives of middle schoolers New York Farrar Straus and

Giroux

Osterweil N (November 8 2011) Bullying Victims Suffer Long-Term Depression Clinical Psychiatry News

Retrieved from

httpwwwclinicalpsychiatrynewscomindexphpid=2426amptx_ttnews5Btt_news5D=88809ampc

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