Teaching Tolerance: Keeping Students Strong While We Stop Bullies
I’m over at Teaching Tolerance today talking about what we can do to help students when they are being bullied, but when the bullies are hard to find:
Now I try to help students as much as I can, both inside my classroom and out. Every year, I receive about a dozen personal essays, journal entries or folded notes on my desk describing instances of bullying. Some students are hopelessness. Others are looking for the strength to push on. All of them want advice on how to handle it.
About 30 percent of middle and high school students are bullied each year, according to the U.S. Department of Education. We’ve read news reports about students are resorting to harming themselves—or worse—in an attempt to stop the misery.
So while we focus on ensuring that school policies are clear on bullying, intervene in any incidents and instruct bystanders on how to speak up, we must continue to empower each student being bullied.
Check out the whole article here!
What do you do to empower students and children to continue on in the face of bullies?