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School Bullies: "Hit 'Em Where It Hurts"

School bullies never seem to stop! Sometimes you have to “hit ‘em where it hurts” as we say!

So you have made a dent in the bullying at your school! Congrats.

But, you still have a hard core of 5-10% of the bullies that you are trying to reach.

Most schools have special events. One effective way to subdue bullies for a short time at least is to bar them from special events if their bullying behavior does not improve.

Field trips are a common event. Bullies love field trips because there is unstructured time where they can do their thing. Bullies can be easily eliminated from field trips or, worse yet, their parents can be required to attend the trip with them.

And, oftentimes their parents bully them!

Bullies should be removed from special assemblies, especially end-of-the year assemblies that are fun and rewarding for the students. I feel that in this situation, the students who have earned awards and behaved well all year, deserve a nice assembly where bullies are not harassing them.

Bullies should not be allowed to attend Field Day where students are celebrating the end of the year and having fun. Again, this is an unstructured situation where they can do some damage, and the other kids deserve to have some fun and celebrate.

What do you think?

Bully Stopping Blog: Time to Vent and Find Solutions!
By Paula McCoach
http://www.bullyzapper.com

Sick of bullies by this time of the school year?

Do you need to vent?

Let us hear your feelings at http://bullyzapper.blogspot.com

But as for all of us…solutions are what we are most interested in reading.

What have you done that has worked to stop or even deter bullying in your school?

Hopefully, by the end of the summer, we will have discovered a wealth of bully zapping techniques to make the learning environment more comfortable and safe for all students in our schools.

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