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VIDEO: Teen Takes Her Own Life After Being Attacked by Bullies Feb 11, 2023
Fourteen-year-old Adriana Kuch took her own life the day after a video was posted online of her being savagely beaten by bullies at school. The incident happened at Central High School in Bayville, New Jersey. Some students say bullying is rampant at the school. Following Kuch's suicide, angry students staged a walk-out from classes. Three of the students involved in the attack were charged with felony assault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjdtJmoDBMw
VIDEO: Contentious school board meeting held in wake of N.J. student's death Feb 16, 2023
Parents and students packed the auditorium at Central Regional High School in Bayville on Thursday night demanding answers from the school board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMcWv_rvdVY
VIDEO: Charlee's BJJ Transformation (A Bullyproof Project) Nov 4, 2021
When Rener found out that Charlee Funes was attacked at school, he used social media to connect with her family and invited her to rebuild her confidence at the Certified Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Training Center in her community. They accepted the offer and this video documents her Gracie Bullyproof transformation over the summer of 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qYlQFEwD4A
Direct Headline: Cyberbullying is on the rise among middle and high school students
By Elizabeth Thomas July 16, 2019
... Among the 20 percent of students who said they were bullied between the ages of 12 and 18 during the 2016 school year, 15% said they were bullied online or by text, according to the report by the National Center for Education Statistics. This is a 3.5% increase from the 2014-2015 school year....Furthermore, the report found that roughly 41% of students between the ages of 12-18 who reported being bullied thought the bullying would happen again....Cyberbullying can include anything from sending hateful messages to sharing harmful or defaming content about someone else online, according to StopBullying.gov, and it can be “persistent, permanent, and hard to notice.”
The report found that girls were more likely to be bullied and that 21% of girls who reported being bullied were singled out online or via text messages....In 2018, a 12-year old girl took her own life after her parents said she was severely cyberbullied by peers and adults at her Florida middle school....The parents of Gabbie Green, told ABC News that the bullying began on social media, though it eventually escalated to offline incidents as well. "There were memes, they put memes out of her figure," her mother, Tanya Green, said....Shane Green, Gabbie's father, added that there was even "a picture with a gun to her head."
....On the day Gabbie killed herself, the Greens said she had been receiving harassing text messages...."They were saying that they were going to spread rumors about her," Tanya Green said of the messages. The texts "were telling her that she should just kill herself" and that "nobody liked her...."
The federal report found that students who reported being bullied online varied by gender, race and grade level.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cyb...chool-students-report-finds/story?id=64364477
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“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”
- Christopher Hitchens
“If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
- Taylor Swift
Here is another topic that is designed to increase discussion and participation in the FFA.
I see this as an interesting topic because many here are parents and the explosion and normalization of online social media has made bullying a potentially terrifying proposition for America's youth. You can be persecuted and hunted down, for digital eternity, with no relief and often no recourse. Tragically, some kids are also committing suicide over being bullied. Also the notion that the average parent is on their own in this regard, without any practical help from their local schools, has never been more glaring as a day to day reality. This topic is broad enough where I believe there can be a lot of interesting discussion without having to delve into public policy nor other controversial public administration subthemes.
( For those without children, feel free, if you wish, to discuss other children in your life pathway such as nieces, nephews, cousins, children of friends/coworkers/neighbors, students in your class, etc, etc) Are you currently concerned about your child being bullied? If your child was bullied, and you'd like to share, what happened? How did it resolve ( if at all)? Were you bullied as a child? How did that resolve? What impact did it have short and long term on your life? Were you a bully in your youth? What catalyzed that behavior? What changed, if at all? What concerns do you have about your children regarding social media and the potential for threat / abuse / bullying? Have you observed these things happening to other children in your network/social sphere? Is there an answer for any of this? Should children be taught and trained to physically fight back? Do you approve of your kids using physical violence if needed in self defense against these bullies? Does your approach change if it's a son in the situation versus a daughter? Would you be willing to confront the parents of a kid who is bullying your own child? What would you say? What would you do?
I'll leave this here for others to discuss. (14/30)
Fourteen-year-old Adriana Kuch took her own life the day after a video was posted online of her being savagely beaten by bullies at school. The incident happened at Central High School in Bayville, New Jersey. Some students say bullying is rampant at the school. Following Kuch's suicide, angry students staged a walk-out from classes. Three of the students involved in the attack were charged with felony assault.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjdtJmoDBMw
VIDEO: Contentious school board meeting held in wake of N.J. student's death Feb 16, 2023
Parents and students packed the auditorium at Central Regional High School in Bayville on Thursday night demanding answers from the school board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMcWv_rvdVY
VIDEO: Charlee's BJJ Transformation (A Bullyproof Project) Nov 4, 2021
When Rener found out that Charlee Funes was attacked at school, he used social media to connect with her family and invited her to rebuild her confidence at the Certified Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Training Center in her community. They accepted the offer and this video documents her Gracie Bullyproof transformation over the summer of 2021.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qYlQFEwD4A
Direct Headline: Cyberbullying is on the rise among middle and high school students
By Elizabeth Thomas July 16, 2019
... Among the 20 percent of students who said they were bullied between the ages of 12 and 18 during the 2016 school year, 15% said they were bullied online or by text, according to the report by the National Center for Education Statistics. This is a 3.5% increase from the 2014-2015 school year....Furthermore, the report found that roughly 41% of students between the ages of 12-18 who reported being bullied thought the bullying would happen again....Cyberbullying can include anything from sending hateful messages to sharing harmful or defaming content about someone else online, according to StopBullying.gov, and it can be “persistent, permanent, and hard to notice.”
The report found that girls were more likely to be bullied and that 21% of girls who reported being bullied were singled out online or via text messages....In 2018, a 12-year old girl took her own life after her parents said she was severely cyberbullied by peers and adults at her Florida middle school....The parents of Gabbie Green, told ABC News that the bullying began on social media, though it eventually escalated to offline incidents as well. "There were memes, they put memes out of her figure," her mother, Tanya Green, said....Shane Green, Gabbie's father, added that there was even "a picture with a gun to her head."
....On the day Gabbie killed herself, the Greens said she had been receiving harassing text messages...."They were saying that they were going to spread rumors about her," Tanya Green said of the messages. The texts "were telling her that she should just kill herself" and that "nobody liked her...."
The federal report found that students who reported being bullied online varied by gender, race and grade level.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/cyb...chool-students-report-finds/story?id=64364477
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“I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.”
- Abraham Lincoln
“You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it.”
- Christopher Hitchens
“If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more.”
- Taylor Swift
Here is another topic that is designed to increase discussion and participation in the FFA.
I see this as an interesting topic because many here are parents and the explosion and normalization of online social media has made bullying a potentially terrifying proposition for America's youth. You can be persecuted and hunted down, for digital eternity, with no relief and often no recourse. Tragically, some kids are also committing suicide over being bullied. Also the notion that the average parent is on their own in this regard, without any practical help from their local schools, has never been more glaring as a day to day reality. This topic is broad enough where I believe there can be a lot of interesting discussion without having to delve into public policy nor other controversial public administration subthemes.
( For those without children, feel free, if you wish, to discuss other children in your life pathway such as nieces, nephews, cousins, children of friends/coworkers/neighbors, students in your class, etc, etc) Are you currently concerned about your child being bullied? If your child was bullied, and you'd like to share, what happened? How did it resolve ( if at all)? Were you bullied as a child? How did that resolve? What impact did it have short and long term on your life? Were you a bully in your youth? What catalyzed that behavior? What changed, if at all? What concerns do you have about your children regarding social media and the potential for threat / abuse / bullying? Have you observed these things happening to other children in your network/social sphere? Is there an answer for any of this? Should children be taught and trained to physically fight back? Do you approve of your kids using physical violence if needed in self defense against these bullies? Does your approach change if it's a son in the situation versus a daughter? Would you be willing to confront the parents of a kid who is bullying your own child? What would you say? What would you do?
I'll leave this here for others to discuss. (14/30)
