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In September 2011, the State of New Jersey started enforcing the toughest bullying law in the country. Each school has to report each case of bullying to the State, and the State will grade each school based on bullying standards, policies, and incidents. Each school must have an effective plan to deal with bullying.
Professionals say the key to discipline include: communication, respect, consistency, moving on after the punishment is complete, matching discipline to the age of the child, and learning how to recognize when there may be some external factor driving a behaviour (such as being hungry or being bullied at school). [20]
The parents of a 10-year-old boy who hanged himself in May after “horrific bullying” are suing their son’s school, claiming staff covered up complaints and punished victims who spoke up ...
The attorneys for Diego Stolz's guardians claim it is the largest school bullying settlement in U.S. history. Family gets 'historic' settlement after boy killed in bullying attack Skip to main content
According to one study conducted with 20,000 youth by researchers at Florida Atlantic University and the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, 73 percent of teens ages 12 to17 reported that they ...
The number of instances of corporal punishment in U.S. schools has also declined in recent years. In the 2002–2003 school year, federal statistics estimated that 300,000 children were disciplined with corporal punishment at school at least once. In the 2006–2007 school year, this number was reduced to 223,190 instances. [50]
In 2016, a legal precedent was set by a mother and her son, after the son was bullied at his public school. The mother and son won a court case against the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board , making this the first case in North America where a school board has been found negligent in a bullying case for failing to meet the standard of care ...
In 2023, 40% of youth reported being bullied at school, according to a survey titled "Youth Right Now" from The Boys and Girls Club of America, which surveyed more than 130,000 kids and teens ...