bullying_begone

While I remarked about it back in February, I want to remind you all that my activity on here as a maintainer will decrease since I'm due to give birth in two weeks and will be busy with the new wee one. I've decided not to add any more mods and maintainers to the community because we're not that active. However, if activity would increase while I'm away, management has my authorization to add another mod or maintainer. They also have my authorization to ban someone too.

So, if a problem arises, you can message one of the maintainers (and I recommend messaging a couple...not just one) or go to bbg_mods. Anyone can make a comment on the first entry, though it's screened. I also made it the first entry on the mod community as it would be easier for management to keep track of members' concerns and comments. Yet, I strongly recommend that if the problem is serious to not only comment on the mod community, but message a few mods too.

Also, if there is a problem...especially with another member, to screen cap it so management can take the proper course of action. You can do that by hitting "crtl" and "prt sc" at the same time. You can add it to your gallery and send the linky of that pic on your gallery when you message the mods. Make sure it's public so the mods can see it because they won't if it is set on friends only.

A friend of killer Adam Lanza's mother has said the gunman may have launched his murder spree at Sandy Hook Elementary School as an 'act of revenge' after suffering years of bullying as a student at the Connecticut school.

Family friend Marvin LaFontaine said Lanza, who killed 26 people during one of the worst school shooting in America's history, had been harboring resentment towards the Connecticut school for years.

And he said mother Nancy Lanza was so angered by the school's inability to protect her son, she would sometimes sit in his class to make sure nobody touched him.

He told the New York Daily News: 'I think Adam felt betrayed by the school and this was his act of revenge.

I am sorry that he was bullied badly, and that the teachers at the school did nothing to help him. However, that's as much as I'm going to feel sorry for him. If he had attacked and killed someone in self-defense because a bully was beating the shit out of him, I would be a little bit more forgiving. However, what he did doesn't deserve sympathy nor forgiveness because those innocent kids that he shot and killed had absolutely nothing to do with him being bullied. In fact, they weren't even alive when he was being bullied. I mean, he even killed his own mother who tried to do something about it.

ETA on April 28th: I fixed the link. I had accidentally added an f between "h" and "ref", which is why the link wouldn't come up.

Being pregnant and going to become a mom in late May, I've been pondering what I would do if I found out that my child is being bullied or is the bully. Of course, I have a few years before I seriously have to worry about it. However, it doesn't hurt to consider what to do in that kind of situation even if it may not ever happen.

With that said...if you knew a child was being bullied or was the bully, how would you handle it? What advice would you give them if they were bullied? What actions would you take if they are a bully?

Btw, the child in the scenario doesn't have to be *your* kid. They could be a foster or an adopted child. They could be related to you in some other way like a younger sibling, a cousin, or niece/nephew. They could be a student of yours if you're a teacher. They could be the child of one of your friends, who may be too weary of telling their own parents. They could be a patient of yours if you are a therapist. Or they can be a random child you see that is getting bullied or is bullying others.

I just want to let you all know that I have *finally* figured out how to put the very first entry I made on bbg_mods as the first entry on the page for the BBG_Mod community. The very first entry is an entry where members from this community can post their complaints or concerns about the community. Rather have us mods go to the archive to see the entry (which was made in 2011, btw), we will be able to check out the entry without going through all of that trouble. So, management will be able to keep an eye on the entries to see if any new comments have been made by members and take quick action if a problem arises. Don't ask me why I didn't consider this two years ago because it probably didn't cross my mind. Oh well, better late than never as I always say.

Also, I want to give you all a heads up now that I will not be active on here as a maintainer starting in late May because I am expected to give birth around the time. Let alone, be active for weeks after I give birth. However, this is why I have many mods and maintainers to help me out. Come April, I will determine if I'm going to add any more mods and maintainers to the community. So, if you're interested in modding or maintaining the community, keep your eyes open around April.

A Pennsylvania boy is currently in a medically induced coma after a schoolyard fight with classmates who he and his family claims were bullying him.

Sixth-grader Baily O'Neil, an honors student, of Darby Township, Pa., was involved in a fight four weeks ago at the Darby Township School. He was struck several times in the face by another student; the blow fractured his nose and he fell to the ground.

His parents brought their son, who had a concussion, to the A.I. DuPont hospital in Wilmington, Del., where he was treated and released. But his father saw that something wasn't quite right with their son when they returned home.

"He was sleeping. He was moody. He wasn't himself. He was angry a little bit. He wasn't really eating," Bailey's father Rob told ABC Affiliate WPVI-TV.

Just a few days later, Bailey started having violent seizures and needed to be hospitalized again. The seizures were so bad that doctors at A.I. DuPont were forced to put Bailey in a medically induced coma nearly two weeks ago.

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So, let me get this straight...here's a kid that sustain a couple blows to the head that has obviously put him at risk and the kid that did it only got TWO fucking days of suspenion as well as NO charges have been filed? I wonder what would happen if the kid dies. Would it be only then that the punishment becomes serious and the bully gets charged?

I'm passionate about studying disasters, particularly natural. When I began to watch Seconds from Disaster eight years ago, that ignited my interest to study all disasters more rather than just natural. Since I began watching the show and study the chain of events that lead to disasters created by people, I rarely have seen bullying involved until recently.

In the recent season of Seconds of Disaster, episode 7, it talks about how this runaway train derailed in Japan. There's an episode similar to it in Situation Critical. It's obvious that it was human error. However, they go into the detail of the driver's background. Since the driver made some mistakes ten months before the accident, he got ordered to go to a rehabitation, or re-education, program for his company. He gets shouted at, demeaned, harrassed for weeks. Basically, scared shitless into not making another mistake for the company. The leader for the company's union consideres it to be bullying and someone else who went through the same thing basically got psychologically messed up from the same thing.

If you don't want to see the whole episode, the part about the re-education/rehabitation starts at 32:21. Warning: The part of the "re-education/rehabilation" scene may cause trigger warnings for those that have been bullied in the work place. The whole episode can be upsetting as there's moderate amounts of blood and 107 people die in this disaster..

Had I been in this guy's shoes, I would've said "fuck it" to the company and found myself a job at another one that didn't use scare tactics to make their employees be more safe. Then again, the company should talk imo. However, if I would go more into that, I would have a novel sized rant not related to bullying.

For those of you that use Facebook, you probably know by now that Facebook has done away with the settings of messaging. You can use two different type of filters. The basic filter allows messages from friends and friends of friends to enter your inbox. The other filter (which the name escapes me right now, will correct once I know what it is) allows messages only from friends to go into your inbox.

BUT, there is a seperate inbox called the "Other" inbox where messages from everyone else can go into. So, basically, if you're being harrassed by someone and you don't have the person blocked, you will still get messages from them in this "Other" folder. The settings for the filters are located in the "Other" inbox. Just go to "Edit preferences" and it will give you the option of the two filters.

Other than using the filter that not's basic, the best thing I can recommend right now for you all to avoid getting any messages from anyone that's harassing you is to block them. THat is the only time, it seems, that someone can't message you. Just thought I let you all know just in case you're new to Facebook or you haven't been on there in a while.

I would like to share a clip from the classic A Christmas Story. In this scene, Ralphie snaps when the neighborhood bully pushes him over the edge after he's had a bad day in school. There is a trigger warning for some physical violence and verbal abuse. There is a warning for those that have issues with the sight of blood, though it's mild.

I do want to state that I do not support violence being used to solve bullying UNLESS someone is using it to defend themselves (like if they were having the shit being beaten out of them and they fight back as a way to protect themselves). While I don't support it in this case in the movie, I do sympathize with Ralphie because I've snapped before and gone off (verbally). It's not shown here, but if you watch the whole movie, he does feel bad afterwards and is a bit afraid of how his father will react. However, I can bet that bully didn't mess with him anymore after that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvijyBIgazE

This article was actually reported last month, but I just came acrossed it today.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Eight teenage girls have been charged with criminal harassment for bullying at a high school in Ontario, the latest of a string of high-profile and tragic bullying incidents in Canada.

Police in the city of London said the girls were arrested after an investigation into physical, emotional and online bullying of another girl at the school.

They were charged and released on a promise to appear in court. They have also been suspended from school.

"Bullying will not be tolerated in our community. The behavior exhibited by these students is reprehensible and will be appropriately dealt with by the criminal justice system," London Police Service said in a statement.</i>
This is good. This is how bullying should be dealt with.