Lack of Character – Bullying in the Adult World
Bullying happens on the school playground, right? It’s mostly a phenomenon among middle school students, isn’t it? Adults never engage in bullying behavior, do they? To the contrary, bullying in the adult world is every bit as present and active as that against which we fight in the non-adult world.
Lack of Character – Bullying by Teachers
Lack of character on the part of teachers can result in bullying of students. Are you surprised? As a school principal, at both elementary and secondary levels, I have seen teachers bully students. Oh, they didn’t stuff them in lockers, or swish their heads in flushing toilets, or demand their
Lack of Character – Bullying in Elementary School
A lack of character results in bullying in elementary school. School personnel should know this, but many do not. That’s one reason bullying continues in spite of common character education efforts. Character education, in many schools, is a matter of glossing over general meanings, having a skit or other activity,
Character Solution to Bullying Problem
Many schools in the northern hemisphere begin a new year tomorrow. Educators launch new goals with new groups of students. Students return with varying degrees of eagerness and trepidation. Before the first week is done, both educators and students are likely to witness bullying. Bullying is an unrelenting problem in
Character Education Attacks Bullying – Courage
Character education attacks bullying. Why? Isn’t bullying just a part of growing up? Don’t you remember when you were a bully – or the victim of a bully? Bullying is commonplace. In the United States alone, statistics tell us that 16 percent of students are involved in bullying. Of that
Character Education Attacks Bullying – Self-Control
Character education attacks bullying – and character educators know that they can make an enormous difference by attacking bullying with character. They don’t tell the students that. They simply teach character with every ounce of strength they have, and let the character building effort attack bullying. Character education attacks bullying
Character in an Anti-Bullying Campaign
Anti-bullying campaigns are beginning to spring up in schools across the U.S. There may be a similar campaign in your nation’s schools. Call them campaigns, initiatives, or programs, the aim is to curb bullying before it digs in its heels and takes root in a school. Usually, students in elementary
Character Counts in Text Messaging
I like to stay in touch with friends I made in New Zealand during my terms as school principal there, and this sometimes brings news of interesting changes. One of these changes appeared in the “Wairarapa Times-Age” newspaper on February 23. Wairarapa College, a secondary school on New Zealand’s North
Character Education Conquers Bullying
Character education conquers bullying. I’m convinced. It has been months since I discussed physical bullying on this blog, and although you may want to go back and read Character Education – Can We Stop Bullying?, September 27, 2005, I’d like to share some fresh thoughts sparked by a newspaper article.
Character Education – Can We Really Stop Bullying?
The other day, as I asked our IT man to post a free Character Education Lesson Plan on Bullying, I wondered if teachers reading that plan will believe bullying behavior can be stamped out in our schools. Bullying has been a part of society for many generations, with little or
