Bullying

If you are bullied at school, you see, you never stop feeling bullied, no matter how old you are. It is absurd that I am 41 years of age and a group of women can still reduce me to tears. To be fair to the bullies, I was an awkward, argumentative, pedantic nerd of a schoolgirl. I know, shocking isn’t it?

Anti-bullying laws have been growing at local and state levels. There is no federal law currently, however, which protects children from bullying. It is only when the behavior overlaps with hara...

“ Some educators and researchers that the "bullying" has been overused and abused, watering down its true, very serious meaning.” Every parent, teacher and child knows the word: "bullying." But this month, as schools and communities launch fresh campaigns around National Bullying Prevention Month, some are urging more precise use of the B-word."Bullying," some researchers say, has been misused and abused in the last few years -- too casually uttered about every hurt, slight and fight, too frequently used in place of "teasing" or "fighting," too often brought up before there's proof it happened.The very word, some say, has been bullied.