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    Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 4
    • 3 min

    Gender lessons: Boy parts, girl parts

    gender identity, reports Laura Meckler in the Washington Post. “Seven states now require that curriculums include LGBTQ topics,” she...
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    Instagram bullying: ‘Portal of pain’ for teens
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Oct 14, 2018
    • 1 min

    Instagram bullying: ‘Portal of pain’ for teens

    Fifty-nine percent of teens say they’ve been bullied online, reports Pew. In a 2017 survey by Ditch the Label, an anti-bullying group,...
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    Lax discipline, bullying, chaos and death
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 12, 2018
    • 3 min

    Lax discipline, bullying, chaos and death

    A “once safe and supportive” New York City school “fell into chaos as new administrators implemented a supposedly more positive approach...
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    Why are kids killing themselves?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 11, 2018
    • 2 min

    Why are kids killing themselves?

    The number of teens “hospitalized for thinking about or attempting suicide doubled in less than a decade,” according to a recent study....
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    Safety fears encourage homeschooling
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jun 3, 2018
    • 2 min

    Safety fears encourage homeschooling

    School safety fears are pushing parents to consider homeschooling, writes Valerie Richardson in the Washington Times. After a gunman...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 28, 2018
    • 2 min

    An Evergreen Headline

    Remember Evergreen State College in Washington and the “no whites allowed” fracas of last year?  Has it perhaps harmed the school’s...
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    Don’t ask kids to befriend violent classmates
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    Don’t ask kids to befriend violent classmates

    Parkland shooting suspect Nikolas Cruz at Broward County jail. Photo: Miguel Guttierez/AFP/Getty Images It’s up to adults to protect kids...
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    Florida creates voucher for bullying victims
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 13, 2018
    • 1 min

    Florida creates voucher for bullying victims

    Bullied students will be offered a voucher to cover transportation to a new public school or a $6,700 voucher toward tuition at a private...
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    Parents seek right to know about bullying
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Mar 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    Parents seek right to know about bullying

    Jacobe Taras went on a family vacation shortly before he killed himself. Photo: Richard Taras Schools should be required to tell parents...
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    27% of kids are . . . what?
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jan 4, 2018
    • 2 min

    27% of kids are . . . what?

    Twenty-seven percent of 12- to 17-year-olds in California identify as “nongender conforming,” according to a new UCLA survey. Take a...
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    Mom won’t be charged for recording device
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Dec 4, 2017
    • 1 min

    Mom won’t be charged for recording device

    Criminal charges have been dropped against a mother who sent her child to school with a recording device to document bullying, reports...
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    Study: Anti-bullying programs teach how to bully
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Oct 31, 2017
    • 1 min

    Study: Anti-bullying programs teach how to bully

    Bullying prevention programs may backfire, warns a University of Texas Arlington study. School anti-bullying programs often teach kids...
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    Bullying leads to murder, suicide try
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Oct 30, 2017
    • 2 min

    Bullying leads to murder, suicide try

    At a Bronx school where a bullied student killed a classmate, a bullied sixth grader tried to hang himself with his sweater, reports...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 9, 2017
    • 1 min

    Undercover in high school 

    In A&E’s Undercover High, which debuts Oct. 10, seven young adults ranging in age from 21 to 26 pose as teen-agers to attend a Topeka...
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    Don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Sep 4, 2017
    • 1 min

    Don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes

    Mamas, don’t raise your kids to be snowflakes, says social psychologist Jonathan Haidt in a Spiked interview. Over-protective parents are...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Jul 28, 2017
    • 1 min

    District Admits Asst Principal Acted Illegally

    The students were protesting on the public sidewalk in front of the school, not on school grounds and not during school.  Agree with...
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    Suspended for racist images, boys sue school
    Joanne Jacobs
    • May 10, 2017
    • 2 min

    Suspended for racist images, boys sue school

    Four Bay Area 11th graders suspended for “liking” or commenting on a racist Instagram image have sued the school district and...
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    Joanne Jacobs
    • Apr 23, 2017
    • 1 min

    Reasons to dislike 13 Reasons Why

    In 13 Reasons Why, a Netflix series based on Jay Asher’s popular book,a 17-year-old girl sends tapes to all the people she blames for her...
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    Dialogue tip: Call ’em a Nazi
    Joanne Jacobs
    • Feb 24, 2017
    • 1 min

    Dialogue tip: Call ’em a Nazi

    The most effective way to discuss an issue is to call the other person a Nazi, according to a study reported in The Babylon Bee. (Not...
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