Bullying awareness activities planned

The high ability learners in Beatrice Middle School’s eighth-grade class last year wanted to make a statewide impact. So with the guidance of assistant principal Trent Steele, they decided to author a piece of legislation.

What if, they asked, they could raise awareness of the effects of bullying in schools?

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So the group discussed the issue, researched and wrote a resolution their own state senator, Dennis Byars, agreed to introduce.

It passed.

Now next week has been designated Nebraska School Bullying Awareness Week. It will kick off with a rally at the Capitol Monday at 4 p.m.

http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/09/10/local/doc4323644ce3236785669182.txt

Good for those kids in Nebraska! I read news stories like this and I'm hopefull for the coming generation!

Wish I went to that school instead of the one I went to. Our school was a ignorant bully infested prison of misery.Gave me traumas I still have to work out today. I hated my school the teachers looked the other way when the little sociopaths would terrorize the school and years later mom mom said my teachers cried at conferences with her talking about what I dealt with everyday,but these teary eyed hypocites did nothing to stop these bullies...the only thing good about middle school I went to was the ceramics class,the planetaruim,metal/wood shop and thier coolest mascot ever,a purple lion.

... but karma is it's own revenge. The bullies I went to school with are not at least twice divorced, underemployed, losers whose best times of their lives was high school. The rest of us "victims" are usually the ones who managed to succeed in life and make something of ourselves, while our former tormentors life off their memories and wonder why their lives didn't turn out the way they expect them to.

There were days I thought my names was faggot it got so bad. It put me in a shell which took years to fully get out of. It took Columbine for school systems to wake up to this menance.

at any level of government to curb or stop it. Other countries have laws in place to deal with bullies and their victims, but I think it will be a cold day in hell before we ever see any legislation at the federal level to address bullying. When our own president and many of his cabinet appointees fall into the 'bully classification', combined with the management bullies found in many corporations, punitive legislation seems almost impossible.