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  • Many Kentucky principals receive no training on anti-bullying polices

    WLWT5

    May 25, 2016

    In Kentucky, a new survey found that 90 percent of school administrators reported that they have not been formally trained in newly passed bullying prevention policies by their school districts. The survey also revealed that off-campus cyberbullying is the biggest frustration of 82 percent of the high school principals and assistant principals and 71 percent of middle school administrators.

  • How to Know if Your Child Is Being Bullied

    Child Mind Institute

    In this article, Jaime Howard, Ph.D., addresses parents and informs them how to identify when their child is being bullied. She also gives parents a variety of strategies for helping their child address the bullying situation.

  • 13-Year-Old Dancer’s Inspirational Message About Bullying on ‘SYTYCD’

    Yahoo News

    May 31, 2016

    Standing at 5–foot-10, 13–year–old dancer Ava Cota is far taller than other dancers. Due to her tall stature, she admits that she had encountered cyber-attacks on social media and even been kicked off of a dance team. However, on the season premiere of So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation, Ava gave a beautiful dance performance that impressed the judges and was selected to move forward on the show.

  • Gary D’Amato column: Butler leapt beyond bullies to star for Packers

    Duluth News Tribune

    May 24, 2016

    Born with deformed feet and confined to a wheelchair, his legs in braces after multiple corrective surgeries, he couldn’t stand up to the bullies, literally …

  • Column: To the kid who bullied me in third grade

    PBS NewsHour

    May 12 ,2016

    Wendy Thomas Russell reflects on her on personal experience with bullying when she was a third-grader and discusses the differences presented with youth today who are bullied. 

  • Autism speaker’s story hits home

    USA Today Network: Post-Crescent

    May 11, 2016

    Kerry Magro speaks to students about how he was bullied because of his disability and how his peers thought that he would never amount to anything. Since high school, Magro has graduated college with his bachelor’s degree and master’s degree, is pursuing his doctorate degree, works for Autism Speaks, an autism science and advocacy organization, and is a best-selling author.

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