In support of Bullying Prevention Awareness, the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) provides resources for families, teens, educators, clinicians, mental health professionals, and law enforcement personnel on how to recognize, deal with, and prevent bullying.
Bullying can be verbal, physical, or via the Internet. It can severely affect the victim’s self-image, social interactions, and school performance—often leading to insecurity, lack of self-esteem, and depression in adulthood. School dropout rates and absences among victims of bullying are much higher than among other students.
Studies have shown that children who have been identified as a bully by age eight are six times more likely to have a criminal conviction by age 24. Children who are bullies may continue to be bullies as adults, and are more prone to becoming child and spouse abusers.
TOP 10 FACTS PARENTS, EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS
NEED TO KNOW 1. Students with disabilities are
much more likely to be bullied than their nondisabled peers.
2. Bullying affects a student’s ability to learn.
3. The definition – Bullying based on a student’s disability may be considered harassment < http://
www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ ocr/docs/disabharassltr.html > .
4. The Federal Laws – Disability harassment is a civil rights issue.
5. The State Laws – Students with disabilities have legal rights when they are a target of bullying.
6. The adult response is important
7. The resources – Students with disabilities have resources that are specifically designed for their situation which include IEP, Dear Colleague Letter and Template Letters. Go to http:// www.pacer.org/bullying/resources/ students-with-disabilities/ for more information.
8. The Power of Bystanders – More than 50 percent of bullying situations stop when a peer intervenes.
9. The importance of self- advocacy
Self-advocacy is knowing how to: Speak up for yourself. Describe your strengths, disability, needs, and wishes. Take responsibility for yourself. Learn about your rights. Obtain help, or know who to ask, if you have a question
10. You are not alone When students have been
bullied, they often believe they are the only one this is happening to, and that no one else cares. In fact, they are not alone.
There are individuals, communities, and organizations
that do care. It is not up to one person to end the bullying and it is never the responsibility of the child to change what is happening to them. No one deserves to be bullied. All people should be treated with dignity and respect, no matter what. Everyone has a responsibility – and a role to play – as schools, parents, students, and the community work together for positive change.
An independent evaluation of The Colorado Trust’s three-year, $9 million statewide Bullying Prevention Initiative shows that bullying in funded schools and community-based organizations was prevalent during the initiative’s first year – particularly in middle schools – but declined over the three-year period.
Bullying decreased when adults
and students were willing to intervene, treat each other fairly and show they care. Positive relationships among adults and students and a culture of trust and fairness had a direct impact on reducing bullying.
The findings also show that schools with lower levels of bullying reported higher scores on the Colorado Student Assessment Program (CSAP) in reading, writing and math.
The evaluation highlights report, Build Trust, End Bullying, Improve Learning < http:// www.bullyingprevention.org/ repository// Evaluation%20Findings/ COTrust_FINALAPRVD_112408.p df > , includes tips on how parents, educators and policymakers can help prevent bullying.
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CAIRO — Egypt’s HosniMubarak was being kept alive bylife support after the 84-year-oldousted leader suffered a stroke inprison Tuesday, officials said,deepening the country’s uncer-tainty just as a potentially explo-sive fight opened over who willsucceed him, with both candi-dates claiming to have won lastweekend’s presidential election.
The developments, which sawMubarak moved out of prison to amilitary hospital, add further lay-ers to what is threatening to be-come a new chapter of unrest andpolitical power struggles in Egypt,16 months after Mubarak wasousted by a popular uprising de-manding democracy.
The Muslim Brotherhood, em-boldened by its claims that it can-didate won the election, sent tensof thousands of its supportersinto the street. It was an escala-tion of its confrontation againstthe ruling generals over their grabthis week of sweeping powers thatgive them dominance over the
next president.Some 50,000 protesters, mostly
Islamists, protested in Cairo’sTahrir Square on Tuesday eveningchanting slogans in support of theBrotherhood’s candidate Mo-hammed Morsi and denouncingthe generals. “We, the people,gave them (the military) legiti-
macy and we now are takingback,” said Saber Ibrahim, a 36-year-old school teacher who camefrom his native Beni Suef south ofCairo to participate in the rally.
The conflicting claims over theelection could further stoke theheat. The campaign of Mubarak’sformer prime minister, Ahmed
Shafiq, said Tuesday he won theelection, denying the Brother-hood’s claim of Morsi’s victory.Hundreds of his supporters tookto the streets in Cairo in celebra-tion.
The election commission is toannounce the official final resultson Thursday and no matter who itnames as victor, his rival is likelyto reject the result as a fraud. IfShafiq is declared winner in par-ticular, it could spark an explosivebacklash from the Brotherhood,which has said Shafiq could onlywin by fraud.
The sudden health crisis ofMubarak, who is serving a lifeprison sentence, briefly overshad-owed the political standoff.
Moving Mubarak out of prisonis likely to further infuriate manyin the public. Many Egyptianshave been skeptical of earlier re-ports that his health was worsen-ing since he was put in prison onJune 2, believing the reports werejust a pretext to move him to an-other facility. There is a wide-spread suspicion that securityand military officials sympatheticto their old boss are giving himpreferential treatment.
JAMES LAWLER DUGGAN/MCTTens of thousands rallied in Cairo's Tahrir Square on Tuesday, June 19,2012 around the Muslim Brotherhood's challenge to military authority,and the Brotherhood's apparent victory in the nation's first-ever openlycontested presidential election.
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Mubarak On Life Support Amid CrisisObama Presses For Stability From Europe
LOS CABOS, Mexico (AP) — Needing an economic boost, Presi-dent Barack Obama is trying to land assurances that Europe isclosing in on a financial crisis response that will calm the marketsand keep the continent’s woes from undermining the world. As hepresses European leaders to drum up economic demand, they wantpromises the United States won’t plunge off a fiscal cliff by year’send.
Obama, as leader of the giant but struggling U.S. economy, re-mains central to the Group of 20 summit talks wrapping up Tues-day in this coastal resort region. But it is the European membersgathered here, led by Germany and its chancellor, Angela Merkel,who carry both the power and responsibility to stabilize a euro-zone reeling from debt, banking and political problems.
Obama was immersed in a second day of talks before meetingseparately with Chinese President Hu Jintao and holding a newsconference. He was to be back in Washington by the early hours ofWednesday, where a fierce re-election campaign and a slumpingU.S. jobs market await him.
The leaders gathered on the Mexican coast seemed intent onsending the right signals to jittery markets and unhappy elec-torates. Merkel told reporters Tuesday that the European leaderspresent made a unified statement that they were willing to tackletheir problems.
Tax Boosts, Spending Cuts Loom In JanuaryWASHINGTON (AP) — A budget showdown for the ages could
begin after this year’s election and stretch well into 2013 — despitethe threat that an impending half-trillion-dollar avalanche of tax in-creases and spending cuts might rekindle a national recession.
The reason: an unprecedented collision of high-stakes fiscal de-cisions, coming at a time of intense partisanship, a teetering econ-omy, record federal deficits and, possibly, a new president.
Campaigning for the White House and Congress will make sub-stantive action all but impossible before the elections. And agree-ment may be nearly as tough during a post-election, lame ducksession in November and December, barring a European financialmeltdown or Middle East oil supply crisis that demands an immedi-ate response by lawmakers.
“I don’t know how a Congress that can’t agree on anything intwo years is all of a sudden going to come together with the admin-istration in the last 45 days of the year to solve the problem,” saidRep. Steven LaTourette, R-Ohio.
No one can confidently predict the outcome of the battle overwhat many are calling the “fiscal cliff.” Much depends on whetherPresident Barack Obama defeats Republican challenger Mitt Rom-ney in November and which party controls Congress.
CIA Releases Documents From 9/11 File WASHINGTON (AP) — In the months before the terrorist attacks
of September 2001, the CIA unit dedicated to hunting for Osama binLaden complained that it was running out of money, and analystsconsidered the likelihood of catching the terror leader to be ex-tremely low, according to government records published Tuesday.
The declassified documents, dated between 1992 and 2004, areheavily blacked out and offer little new information about what theU.S. knew about the al-Qaida plot before 2001. Many of the files arecited in the 9/11 Commission report, published in 2004. The com-mission determined the failure that led to 9/11 was a lack of imagi-nation, and U.S. intelligence agencies did not connect the dots thatcould have prevented the attacks.
Though few new details are revealed in the documents, the filesoffer more historical context for the years surrounding the dead-liest terror attack on U.S. soil.
The National Security Archive obtained the documents througha Freedom of Information Act request and published them on itswebsite Tuesday. The archive is a private group seeking trans-parency in government.
BY JOAN LOWYAssociated Press
WASHINGTON — The prospectthat thousands of drones could bepatrolling U.S. skies by the end ofthis decade is raising the specter ofa Big Brother government that peersinto backyards and bedrooms.
The worries began mostly on thepolitical margins, but there are signsthat ordinary people are starting tofret that unmanned aircraft couldsoon be circling overhead.
Jeff Landry, a freshman Republi-can congressman from Louisiana’scoastal bayou country, said con-stituents have stopped him whileshopping at Walmart to talk about it.
“There is a distrust amongst thepeople who have come and dis-cussed this issue with me about ourgovernment,” Landry said. “It’s rais-ing an alarm with the Americanpublic.”
Another GOP freshman, Rep.Austin Scott, said he first learned of
the issue when someone shoutedout a question about drones at a Re-publican Party meeting in his Geor-gia congressional district twomonths ago.
An American Civil LibertiesUnion lobbyist, Chris Calabrese, saidthat when he speaks to audiencesabout privacy issues generally,drones are what “everybody justperks up over.”
“People are interested in thetechnology, they are interested inthe implications and they worryabout being under surveillance fromthe skies,” he said.
The level of apprehension is es-pecially high in the conservative blo-gosphere, where headlines blare“30,000 Armed Drones to be UsedAgainst Americans” and “Govern-ment Drones Set to Spy on Farms inthe United States.”
When Virginia Gov. Bob McDon-nell, a Republican, suggested duringa radio interview last month thatdrones be used by police domesti-
cally since they’ve done such a goodjob on foreign battlefields, the politi-cal backlash was swift. NetRight-Daily complained: “This seems likesomething a fascist would do. ... Mc-Donnell isn’t pro-Big Government,he is pro-HUGE Government.”
John Whitehead, president of theRutherford Institute of Char-lottesville, Va., which provides legalassistance in support of civil liber-ties and conservative causes,warned the governor, “America isnot a battlefield, and the citizens ofthis nation are not insurgents inneed of vanquishing.”
There’s concern as well amongliberal civil liberties advocates thatgovernment and private-sectordrones will be used to gather infor-mation on Americans without theirknowledge. A lawsuit by the Elec-tronic Frontier Foundation of SanFrancisco, whose motto is “defend-ing your rights in the digital world,”forced the Federal Aviation Adminis-tration earlier this year to disclosethe names of dozens of public uni-
versities, police departments andother government agencies thathave been awarded permission to flydrones in civilian airspace on an ex-perimental basis.
Giving drones greater access toU.S. skies moves the nation closer to“a surveillance society in which ourevery move is monitored, tracked,recorded and scrutinized by the au-thorities,” the ACLU warned last De-cember in a report.
The anxiety has spilled over intoCongress, where a bipartisan groupof lawmakers have been meeting todiscuss legislation that wouldbroadly address the civil-liberty is-sues raised by drones. A Landry pro-vision in a defense spending billwould prohibit information gatheredby military drones without a war-rant from being used as evidence incourt. A provision that Rep. RushHolt, D-N.J., added to another billwould prohibit the Homeland Secu-rity Department from arming itsdrones, including ones used to pa-trol the border.
Talk Of Drones Patrolling U.S. Skies Spawns Anxiety
