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Parents seek right to know about bullying
Jacobe Taras went on a family vacation shortly before he killed himself. Photo: Richard Taras Schools should be required to tell parents...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 8, 20181 min read
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27% of kids are . . . what?
Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a...
Joanne Jacobs
Jan 4, 20182 min read
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Mom won’t be charged for recording device
Criminal charges have been dropped against a mother who sent her child to school with a recording device to document bullying, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
Dec 4, 20171 min read
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Study: Anti-bullying programs teach how to bully
Bullying prevention programs may backfire, warns a University of Texas Arlington study. School anti-bullying programs often teach kids...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 31, 20171 min read
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Bullying leads to murder, suicide try
At a Bronx school where a bullied student killed a classmate, a bullied sixth grader tried to hang himself with his sweater, reports...
Joanne Jacobs
Oct 30, 20172 min read
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Undercover in high school
In A&E’s Undercover High, which debuts Oct. 10, seven young adults ranging in age from 21 to 26 pose as teen-agers to attend a Topeka...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 9, 20171 min read
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Don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes
Mamas, don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes, says social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in a Spiked interview. Over-protective parents are...
Joanne Jacobs
Sep 4, 20171 min read
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District Admits Asst Principal Acted Illegally
The students were protesting on the public sidewalk in front of the school, not on school grounds and not during school. Agree with...
Joanne Jacobs
Jul 28, 20171 min read
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Suspended for racist images, boys sue school
Four Bay Area 11th graders suspended for “liking” or commenting on a racist Instagram image have sued the school district and...
Joanne Jacobs
May 10, 20172 min read
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Reasons to dislike 13 Reasons Why
In 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix series based on Jay Asher’s popular book,a 17-year-old girl sends tapes to all the people she blames for her...
Joanne Jacobs
Apr 23, 20171 min read
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Dialogue tip: Call ’em a Nazi
The most effective way to discuss an issue is to call the other person a Nazi, according to a study reported in The Babylon Bee. (Not...
Joanne Jacobs
Feb 24, 20171 min read
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