Adults often oblivious to children’s bullying
Written by Rebecca Jones on Oct 25th, 2010.
The federal Health Resources and Services Administration's "Stop Bullying Now!" campaign offers extensive resources for parents, schools and students.
The relentless bullying Kevin Jennings endured as a high school freshman nearly brought his academic career to a premature end.
A high school counselor dismissed his complaints as groundless. His mother never learned what was happening until the first day of his sophomore year, when he simply refused to return to school, and he at last revealed his secret torment to her.
Fortunately, Jennings’ mother went to bat for him and didn’t back down. She demanded officials let her son transfer to a different school, which they were reluctant to do. She held him out of classes for a week until school officials relented, and he resumed his education in a new school, where he felt safe and where no more bullying occurred.
Today, Jennings, 47, is the Assistant Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education and director of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. A career educator, he has dedicated his life to ensuring that
Monday Churn: Far Northeast on deck
What’s churning:
“Fear and lies:” Nearly two weeks after a contentious community meeting in Far Northeast Denver, The Denver Post this morning published a scathing editorial criticizing the critics of a sweeping school overhaul plan and questioning their motives. The Oct. 12 meeting was disrupted by protesters who argued that the “transformation” plan for Montbello High School, Rachel Noel Middle School and several feeder elementary schools would force some student out of neighborhood schools and relied too heavily on charter schools.
The Post editorial calls this a “campaign of fear-mongering and outright lies to scare parents in Montbello and Green Valley Ranch…It is a shameful tactic, made even more disgraceful by the support we’re told it is getting from a few Denver Public School board members who apparently will do anything to undercut DPS Superintendent Tom Boasberg.”
The next meeting of the Far Northeast Denver Community Committee is slated for tomorrow evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Rachel Noel Middle School. The school board will hold a “special public comment” meeting on the
