Are we raising a generation of bullies?
There is a new poll getting a lot of attention that says half of students in our high schools admit to having bullied someone in the past year. That’s hard to believe. The survey was conducted by the Los Angeles-based Josephson Institute of Ethics, and results were gleaned from answers to questions asked of 43,321 students. The margin of error is said to be less than 1 percent. The teens were asked, according to the institute’s Web site, whether they had “bullied, teased or taunted someone (at least once in the past 12 months.)
Ivy League students 'out' kids who don't donate to senior fund
Student volunteers at Dartmouth College and Cornell University, using lists given to them by school administrators, are “outing” students who have not donated to a senior class gift fund. According to this article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, the schools are hoping that peer pressure will squeeze money from reluctant donors, even if the tactic seems obnoxious. It turns out that at Dartmouth, one out of 1,123 students in the Class of 2010 did not contribute this year, and wasn’t happy when her sin was exposed in the college newspaper and on a popular blog.
