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Kids returning to school Tuesday were handed pamphlets outlining Mayor Bloomberg's new "Respect for All" policy, intended to reduce bullying, particularly harassment in public schools based on ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability. Every principal is now required to designate a staff member to whom students can report incidents, with schools required to report complaints to the Department of Education within 24 hours. According to WNBC, an accounting of all the incidents will be put online at the end of each school year, thereby sharing the humiliation with the world wide web.
A similar policy was recently passed in the New York State Assembly (but not Senate). The city's anti-bully initiative was prompted in part by bias incidents targeting Sikh students; last year, a student tried to remove a Sikh schoolmate's turban and punched him in the face. Members of several advocacy groups attended the mayor's news conference yesterday and applauded the new rules.
But the Post finds it peculiar that Bloomberg would enact the regulations after vetoing an anti-bullying bill passed by the City Council four years ago. The mayor explained yesterday that the council had overstepped its bounds and interfered with "the job of the chancellor." The new policy also requires investigation into "electronically transmitted acts" on cellphones or via the Internet. "Simply put, there is just no place for prejudice or hate or bullying in our schools," Bloomberg told reporters. But keep your guard up, nerds; old standards like titty-twisters and atomic wedgies are not explicitly prohibited by the new policy.
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little punk probably got his ass kicked regularly - they always grow up to be snotty rich guys. i say the turbans and the fags are fair game!
Now we just need a similar policy directed towards the NYPD.
So schools are now going to spend all their time trying to prevent little turds from bullying each other? When will they have time to say, I don't know, teach?
Oh wait, this is NYC. They got rid of all that pesky "learning" ages ago.
The jocks need to beat on the nerds. When the nerds grow up and start making a shitload of money, they'll take their revenge by taking the hottest ladies from the jocks and end up marrying them.
This is how the world works. Let nature take its course.
Speaker Quinn is just happy b/c she thinks that this means Bloomberg will be prevented from bullying the City Council.
Well he called me a "faggie nerd." So I told him, "I'm not that smart," as I pulled out my semi-auto and emptied a clip in his body.
I guess that will teach him.
Jeremy spoke in...class today.
how bout indian sunburns? is that OK?
Lock up all the bullies? that's 90% of all the kids in NYC. Today, when I was on the 7 train near Shea I saw a whole bunch of Hispanic guys trying to woo one hispanic girl. It bordered on gangrape.
we must be the only society that protects the bullies and punishes any retaliation by the bullee.
so a kid writes a hit list of his bullies? big deal. so they punish the kid who gets daily beatings.
So my idea to begin "Stupid Bashing" that is roaming the city beating people that are ignorant is now a bad idea?
If it's respect for "all" why do they need a hierarchy of designated, politically correct victim groups. "All" should cover it.
You cannot stop kids from bullying. It's like asking the sun to not come up. Kids are enforcers of the status quo -- anything that stands out, like glasses, extra weight, intelligence, etc. is to be rigidly suppressed...
www.forgotten-ny.com
actually in one public school there's a code of conduct to be followed. parents still bitch and moan because they think little johnny is an angel outside the home.
so the only thing to do is have the parents gang up on the offending parent telling them to reign in your unruly child. doesn't usually work the only way is to transfer the bully out. sometimes gentrification handles that situation.
You can't regulate away bullying. Getting your ass kicked and learning to stand up for yourself is just part of growing up. I'm sure snitching to the designated school official will be just as disgraceful a thing to do for children as snitching to a teacher would be.