Comments on: Out of School Behaviors: A Principal’s Responsibility? http://blogs.bu.edu/sed/2012/05/30/out-of-school-behaviors/ Fri, 24 May 2013 18:42:22 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Thordur http://blogs.bu.edu/sed/2012/05/30/out-of-school-behaviors/comment-page-1/#comment-6633 Thordur Fri, 24 May 2013 18:34:39 +0000 http://blogs.bu.edu/sed/?p=111#comment-6633 I agree with you so much, cyber bullying has gone out of control. Thanks for posting this. Warmly, Thordur http://www.thordurbergmann.com/ I agree with you so much, cyber bullying has gone out of control.

Thanks for posting this.

Warmly,
Thordur
http://www.thordurbergmann.com/

]]> By: Tim Farley http://blogs.bu.edu/sed/2012/05/30/out-of-school-behaviors/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Tim Farley Mon, 09 Jul 2012 12:57:43 +0000 http://blogs.bu.edu/sed/?p=111#comment-5 I agree with everything you have written. HOWEVER (there is almost always a "however"), there are many cases of "bullying" that are not truly bullying. Kids are sometimes mean and will say and do things that ren't very nice, but it doesn't necessarily mean that they were "bullied". I have found that many times when a parent calls me to say that their child was bullied in school, I will ask, "Did your child retaliate verbally/physically?". And most of the time they say no. When I investigate, the overwhelming majority of the time they have in fact retaliated. My fear is that this law is too broad and puts too much of the onus on school districts and the administrators. I believe that we will be "investigating" most of the day instead of evaluating teachers and running the operations of the school. I also feel that there will be a sharp increase in litigations. Tim I agree with everything you have written. HOWEVER (there is almost always a “however”), there are many cases of “bullying” that are not truly bullying. Kids are sometimes mean and will say and do things that ren’t very nice, but it doesn’t necessarily mean that they were “bullied”.

I have found that many times when a parent calls me to say that their child was bullied in school, I will ask, “Did your child retaliate verbally/physically?”. And most of the time they say no. When I investigate, the overwhelming majority of the time they have in fact retaliated.

My fear is that this law is too broad and puts too much of the onus on school districts and the administrators. I believe that we will be “investigating” most of the day instead of evaluating teachers and running the operations of the school. I also feel that there will be a sharp increase in litigations.

Tim

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