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Friday, June 22, 2012

Education Ride 365: Adult Bullying Victim Update...24 Hours Later



Yesterday I reported about an online effort to raise $5,000 to fund "a vacation" for the adult victim of a recent bullying incident on a school bus.  At 4:10pm pacific time yesterday the fund had raised $355,666.  Now, a mere 24 hours later, the amount is up to $570,566!


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Keywords: Education Ride 365, EdClick, Cycle Of Education, Discipline, Bullying, Bus Behavior

 

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Education Ride 365: Witness The Best & Worst Of People... Schools--->Respond Accordingly!



It is my experience that some of the more egregious behavior by young people occurs on school buses.  As a school administrator I often dealt with cases of disrespect, insubordination, and bullying issues on "the bus." These types of bad behavior are very common. Drug use, indecent exposure, and even sexual acts---while less common---also occurred most every year.  Typically a school bus driver, with his/her back to the students and multi-tasking between supervision and actually concentrating on the road, is in sole command of 40-50 students cramped into a small compartment with plenty of hidden space and time for mischief.

Some school buses are equipped with a camera at the front of the bus...a half-measure at best since typically any bad behavior beyond five rows or so is hidden from the single-point camera and microphone.  I was always amazed more buses aren't equipped with multi-point video cameras in the absence of additional adult supervision, which is quite rare. 

Even when available, additional supervision by an adult other than the bus driver, while wise, is not always effective.  If you've ever wondered how cruel bullies can be with their words---even to an adult supervising their behavior---try watching all ten minutes of this:



Bullying takes many forms.  All can be damaging, but the case below resulted in the loss of an eye in the school cafeteria during lunch.  This boy's parents have now filed suit, claiming "the school failed to properly supervise the students accused of the attack."  Beyond protecting children from this menace, what are schools doing to protect themselves?  All reports and subsequent action schools take to address reported cases of bullying should be thoroughly documented lest school officials be accused of doing nothing about a problem that can be impossible to completely eradicate. 

In an age when school administrators feel tremendous pressure to focus more on academics at the expense of other aspects of school management...including supervision, when teachers increasingly resist duties and other aspects of supervision in preference to their academic role and responsibilities, and when a healthy segment of our population second-guess school officials at most every turn with charges ranging the full-spectrum from being too permissive to downright fascist on most any given issue, it is clearly prudent to document, document, document.

Consider this case (full story here):



Most all of the comments posted in response to this terrible story blasted the school and its personnel without any benefit of disclosure.  Without knowing hardly any facts of the case, commentators repeatedly call for the administrators to be fired, for the lawsuit to be successful, and for the schools to "start" doing their jobs.  They are vicious in their summary judgement that the school did nothing.  It will be interesting to see the school's side.  Did they document their efforts?  Beyond this, did they have proactive measures in place to address cases of bullying?



On a positive note, an online fundraising campaign was initiated to raise $5,000 for the abused bus monitor in the above video to take "a vacation."  In only a few days this effort has raised $348,972.  I am writing this at 4:10 Thursday afternoon.  Earlier this morning the total was $202,000.  That was a mere six (or so) hours ago. 




Americans are tired of bullying.  Americans are tired of cruel, seemingly poorly-parented children.  Americans (in many cases) expect the schools to completely insulate students from these injustices. 

What is your school doing
---proactively and reactively---
to combat the menace of bullying?
 

EdClick can help. 

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Keywords: Education Ride 365, EdClick, Cycle Of Education, Discipline, Bullying, Bus Behavior

 

Friday, June 15, 2012

Education Ride 365: One Way To Address Bullying---Another Way Not To!



One discipline problem school administrators have been increasingly focused on is bullying.  We heard it quite frequently from Edclick's current and prospective customers---school administrators---at the Texas Association of Secondary School Principals Conference this past week.  I also hear it often during my 'Education Ride 365' discussions with educators and non-educators alike.  Since Edclick is in the business of developing solutions for the full range of operational challenges school administrators encounter running a 21st century school, I'm proud to say we can help with the "bullying" challenge!

Needless to say, an example of how two teachers in a suburban San Antonio school (allegedly) recently addressed this discipline priority is not on our list of solutions!  The full story can be accessed by clicking here or on the excerpt below:



Contact Edclick for legal, prudent, pragmatic, and ethical
measures to address bullying in your school!

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Keywords: Education Ride 365, EdClick, Cycle Of Education, Discipline, Bullying

 

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Schools Are Expected To Eliminate All Animosity Between Students...Or Prove They Tried To!



Beyond the fact that documentation can help guide decision-making in our schools, we are regularly reminded that it can also protect schools when push comes to shove

Bullying, in particular, is serious business these days.  Are the educators in your school carefully:
  • documenting their efforts to investigate reported incidents? 
  • documenting interventions used to diffuse the situation? 
  • documenting efforts to contact parents and guardians?
  • documenting initiatives to prevent the behavior in the first place?

It sounds easy.  School personnel know it is not.  It may seem unnecessary.  It definitely is not.  Nonetheless, proper documentation is professional behavior.

We all know that students are often in conflict of one sort or another.  School personnel, especially in middle school, spend a significant chunk of time investigating and resolving all sorts of student disputes---including bullying. 

Consider a case like that below.  A student tries to kill herself.  She had reported bullying.  The family claims that nothing was done.  It goes on and on.  It is a we-said, they-said.

The school should have documentation to refute her claims.  It sounds like this case was prolonged enough that they may.  Often, there would be little to no documentation.  The story below is repeated often...across our country.  This headline isn't new and we are seeing it more frequently.  Is your school ready to prove your due diligence when students are being pushed to the edge like this?  Many schools are doing most everything they can to prevent incidents like it. They should do themselves the service of documenting their efforts!

See a video story here.

The full written story can be accessed from the South Florida Times by clicking the article below.

EdClick can facilitate your school's documentation efforts!

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Keywords: EdClick, Discipline, Parent Communication, Documentation, Bullying, Lawsuit

 

Friday, April 22, 2011

Discipline: Not All Lessons Learned At Home Are Good For Children!

EdConnections Posted by Dan S. Martin
The CDC has established a correlation between those who bully---and/or are bullied---at school, to homes where bullying occurs.  Yet one more example of how some of the worst behaviors at school are cultivated and fertilized at home.


Click the image above to read the entire story at NPR.com

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Keywords: Discipline, Bullying

 

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Discipline: Looking For Someone To Blame In Times Of Tragedy--->Will You Be Next?

EdConnections Posted by Dan S. Martin
Back on January 22nd, I posted about an elementary student in north Texas who committed suicide on campus.  Blame was laid at the school's doorstep.  That case was slightly different than the one I will highlight today, but the general theme is the same. 

To one degree or another, schools today are often expected to fix the world's problems.  One such widespread problem is bullying.  It is so common among young people that most of us can remember at least an instance or two when we were bullied as youngsters.  Human nature hasn't changed, but expectations for schools to resolve the ugliest manifestations of human nature certainly have...and seem to more and more each year.

It is imperative that educators protect themselves by documenting interventions in cases of student conflict.  As a campus administrator, there were days that I was totally consumed by efforts to defuse conflict between youngsters.  It is often a tangled web they weave!  Quite often, too, it was impossible to completely resolve an issue...or it seemed like the issue was resolved, yet it was still simmering.

Those who haven't worked with youngsters in a school setting often can't appreciate how big this challenge is.  Youngsters can be very vicious to one another....and sometimes we don't know how bad it is until damage has been done.  In a worst-case scenario, death can result.

No matter what, educators must document their attempts to intervene.  At the very least, they must document due diligence.  Otherwise, when the worst happens...dedicated educators can be painted as callous, indifferent bureaucrats not doing their job.

Document, document, document.  Any prudent discipline plan incorporates this step.  Protect yourself in your efforts to protect your students!


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Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Discipline: Educators---->Documentation, Documentation, Documentation

EdConnections Posted by Dan S. Martin
The dad who was arrested once police viewed a video of him egging on a fight between his son and another boy---including instructions to "punch his eyes out" and slam his head against the concrete---has now bonded out of jail and publicly defended his actions.  His defense boils down to a claim that his son had been bullied by the other boy for months and nobody had done anything about it.

This and so many cases...including one that will follow in my next post...should further put educators on notice about how important it is to follow up on all complaints of bullying (AND carefully document their efforts), lest the blame for tragic actions be laid at their feet.

In case you haven't seen this latest outrage, I've embedded the video below.


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Keywords: Discipline, Fighting, Documentation, Bullying

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