Research and experience suggest comprehensive efforts that involve administrators, teachers and other school staff, students, and parents who are concerned about school violence and bullying are more likely to be successful than those based solely in the classroom. Comprehensive intervention encompasses clearly worded policies and stated codes of behaviors with consistent and supportive follow-through. Many [...]
Posts from ‘June, 2009’
Prevention Is Everybody’s Business
One of the most damaging aspects of bullying in schools is that it poisons the atmosphere of learning for everyone. All students need to feel safe and secure in order to learn, and learning entails much more than the academics. Middle school students, in particular, are focused at that age on peer acceptance and vulnerable [...]
Why Parents Need Keylogger Software
by: Michael Ryan The emergence of the internet, and associated technologies like email and instant messaging, present problems for today’s parents that were unimaginable just twenty years ago. Children use computers for homework, surf the web at their leisure and socialize through instant messaging – all activities that are often outside direct parental control and [...]