University of Canterbury specialist teaching programme co-ordinator Dr Cara Swit said adolescent bullies often bullied other teens both online and face-to-face in the school environment. “There’s no reprieve for the victim, it’s just ongoing, they can’t get away from it.” It was much easier for online bullies to conceal their identities which made intervention harder, Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Bullying’
John Paul College principal disciplines student fighters
Thursday, July 1st, 2021
Rotorua’s John Paul College principal says the school is taking action after a video emerged of a fight between some of his students. The fighters included both girls and boys. Principal Patrick Walsh says John Paul College takes fighting seriously and is now in the process of disciplining the students involved. “The students have been Read more
Bullies are scared cowards says Pope
Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Pope Francis, visiting Japan, denounced an “epidemic” of bullying that torments young people in Japan but also around the world. “We must all unite against this culture of bullying and learn to say ‘Enough!’ “It is an epidemic, and together you can find the best medicine to treat it.” “Bullies are afraid, and they cover Read more
Ombudsman critical of the way college handled bullying complaint
Monday, September 2nd, 2019
The Chief Ombudsman has criticised Sacred Heart College in Auckland over the way it dealt with a bullying complaint. Peter Boshier said the school had “failed to ensure the student was safe.” He called the Board of Trustees’ response to the complaint Siobhan Harvey made about the bullying of her son “unreasonable”. Boshier recommended the Read more
Pope tackles bullying
Monday, June 24th, 2019
Pope Francis highlighted the problem of bullying in a recent message to young people. Francis said bullying is an issue that concerns him. He made the comments to participants in the online conference #StopcyberbullyingDay. Francis called on participants to find their own identity but not at the expense of others. “An issue that concerns me Read more
MP gets cross party support and a security escort
Thursday, May 23rd, 2019
Green MP Golriz Ghahraman is being accompanied by a security escort at all times following a series of death threats. The MP has seen a significant escalation in threats of violence following comments by ACT MP David Seymour, a source told Stuff. Ghahraman is an Iranian-Kiwi refugee, lucky to escape war and persecution as a Read more
Schoolyard bullies in the sacristy
Thursday, March 28th, 2019
Half a century ago, the bishops’ conference of the United States commissioned an interdisciplinary study of the priesthood in that country. Key parts of it were led by two priests who at the time were celebrities in the Catholic community, Andrew Greeley the sociologist and Eugene Kennedy the psychologist. (Disclosure: as a seminarian I was Read more
Bullied, sexually abused kids more likely to smoke, drink
Monday, March 4th, 2019
A new study has found children who were bullied and sexually abused are more likely to smoke and drink alcohol excessively as adults. The findings were published recently in BMC Public Health. Few studies have explored this phenomenon in Australia, according to Dr David Alejandro González-Chica, senior lecturer and research supervisor at the University of Read more