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In days past, the stereotypical schoolyard bully was a friendless thug from the wrong side of the tracks who started shaving in the third grade. Of course, bullies have always come in all sizes, shapes, ages and genders, and they’re still found in the same haunts—in parks and on playgrounds and street corners. In fact, according to a survey by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a third of American children have had to deal with bullying, behavior that starts in grade school.
New York City kids, street-smart as they may be, aren’t immune to bullies. “It’s something we take very seriously,” says Elayna Konstan, chief executive officer in the city’s Office of School and Youth Development, which recently instituted a program to instruct teachers and school administrators on how to deal with bullying. As a Level 4 infraction in the Department of Education’s discipline code (Level 5 is the highest—think guns), school bullying is addressed with a wide range of options, from counseling and mentoring to suspension.
anona
Fri, Apr 04, at 11:48pm
All too often the teachers do not acknowledge, that even repeated hitting and hurtful words is, bullying. Many schools adopt the policy that if there is a conflict both children should sit out at play time or lunch. There is also the this desire to have the children talk it out together which is just silly iff one is a bully because there is nothing that the other child could say that would change anything including further attacks.
