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Date Posted: 11:21:48 12/21/08 Sun
Author: Danny Reyland (Happy)
Subject: Bullying in our schools

I am a teacher with over 20 years experience and I am most concerned about the prevalence of schoolyard bullying. Not a week goes by when I don't see incidents of bullying with my own eyes or read about it in the media. It is getting worse not better! I have found that the best thing to do to try and stop bullying is to talk about it and to talk about strategies to try and prevent it happening.

The worst thing a teacher can do however is to talk about it in a "preachy" way because kids just switch off.

I have found a brilliant discussion starter resource. It is a story by a Professor Cecil Thistlethwaite and the story he has written is available online as an e-book and I would like to direct other educators toward this resource as well.

The story talks first of all about having a positive "I will not be easily bullied' attitude and then it models the way the main character handles the different types of bullying characters he meets in his journeys.

I honestly believe that one day this book may rank alongside great motivational type stories such as "The Little Red Engine That Could." The web address if you want to check out what I'm raving about is http://www.eloquentbooks.com/TheAdventuresOfHiramBBat.html

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