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Christians Slam Anti-Bully Day Over 'Gay Agenda'

Evangelical group to parents: Keep your kids at home

(Newser) - About 200 schools have canceled an anti-bullying program after conservative evangelicals warned that it secretly promotes the "homosexual agenda." The Southern Poverty Law Center says it designed Mix It Up Lunch Day to encourage kids to sit beside someone different—to help break up cliques and ease bullying,...

Bullied News Anchor&#39;s Brother? Ron Livingston
 Bullied News 
 Anchor's Brother? 
 Ron Livingston 
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Oct 7, 2012 7:54 AM CDT

Bullied News Anchor's Brother? Ron Livingston

Brother calls her 'role model;' critic Kenneth Krause responds

(Newser) - Jennifer Livingston, the Wisconsin news anchor who responded on-air to a viewer who criticized her weight , has a Hollywood actor in her corner: Her brother, Office Space and Sex and the City star Ron Livingston. Ron has issued a statement in support of his sister, Radar reports, noting that she...

News Anchor Responds to Viewer Who Called Her Fat

Jennifer Livingston calls it an example of rampant bullying

(Newser) - An anchorwoman at WKBT in Lacrosse, Wisconsin, offered an on-air response today to a viewer who criticized her weight. Sample line from the email, which can be filed under the "smug condescension" category: "I leave you this note hoping that you'll reconsider your responsibility as a local...

&#39;It&#39;s Like Carrie With a Happy Ending&#39;
 'It's Like Carrie 
 With a Happy Ending' 
prank backfires
Sep 25, 2012 7:03 PM CDT

'It's Like Carrie With a Happy Ending'

Detroit News: Town rallies around victim of high school prank

(Newser) - This mean high school prank did not go as planned. Or in the words of Francis X. Donnelly in the Detroit News : "It's like Carrie with a happy ending." It seems sophomores in the small town of West Branch, Michigan, thought it would be a hoot to...

Bus Monitor Karen Klein Starts Anti-Bullying Org

She used $100K of her $700K in donations

(Newser) - Karen Klein received more than $700,000 in donations after a video of her being bullied by students on a bus went viral—and she's taken $100,000 of that money to start the Karen Klein Anti-Bullying Foundation. The 68-year-old former bus monitor's organization aims to end bullying,...

Cyberbullying Less Common Than It Seems

17% of kids bullied in past year: study

(Newser) - Given the number of headlines we see about cyberbullying, you might think the problem is a rampant one, but a new study indicates its reach is a little more modest. Years of studies examining slightly different questions about the phenomenon have resulted in findings that "vary dramatically," says...

Bus Monitor Bullies Get 1-Year Suspensions

Karen Klein fundraiser now tops $670K and still growing

(Newser) - Four students who were caught on camera bullying 68-year-old bus monitor Karen Klein until she cried have each been suspended from school for a year and ordered to do 50 hours of community service working with the elderly, reports CNN . "Following individual meetings this week with school and district...

Bullied Bus Monitor's Take Breaks $500K Mark

But even with new riches, Karen Klein has harsh words for bullies

(Newser) - She may officially be $500,000 richer, but bullied school bus monitor Karen Klein is unimpressed with the apologies she's gotten so far from the foul-mouthed kids caught bullying her in a now-infamous video. "Of course he's going to say anything," Klein said of one apology...

School Staff Slammed for Moose Poop Prank

Teens tricked into eating 'chocolate almonds'

(Newser) - If you're ever in the Canadian wilderness and somebody offers you a "chocolate-covered almond," beware. It might be moose poop. The parents of two Manitoba teenagers are furious after adults tricked their children into eating moose droppings on a school canoe trip, the CBC reports. One mother...

Detroit Cops: 7-Year-Old Killed Self After Bullying

He was also depressed over parents' split

(Newser) - Detroit's police chief calls it "unfathomable": A 7-year-old boy hanged himself from his bunk bed with a belt, depressed over his parents' separation and because he got bullied constantly at school and around his neighborhood, reports the Detroit Free Press . He was discovered by his 14-year-old-sister, who saw...

Teen Suspended for Fake Suicide in Anti-Bully Video

Class project gets stunned teen bounced

(Newser) - A Long Island teenager was stunned when school officials suspended her for creating an anti-bullying video that featured a fictional character who commits suicide. Jessica Barba, 15, wrote, filmed, and acted in the six-minute video for a class project. In the video, she plays a character who's bullied by...

Bristol: Stop Bullying Me, Internet

Gay-marriage blog post prompts some over-the-top responses

(Newser) - Bristol Palin just learned the hard way that darkness can lurk in Internet comment threads. It seems Palin's post criticizing President Obama's gay-marriage stance upset more than a few people, and they let her know it in no uncertain terms. In a new blog post , spotted by the...

Right Argues Obama Was a Bully, Too!

Conservative commentators focus on passage from Dreams From My Father

(Newser) - Mitt Romney isn't the only one with a history of bullying . In response to the Washington Post piece about a forcible haircut Romney allegedly gave a student, conservative media outlets yesterday called attention to a passage from Obama's 1995 book Dreams From My Father in which a middle-school...

Romney: School Prank May 'Have Gone Too Far'

Candidate apologizes for hair cut incident

(Newser) - Mitt Romney offered an apology of sorts this morning for the forcible haircut he allegedly gave a classmate in high school. "Back in high school, I did some dumb things, and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize," he said in a hastily arranged...

Romney Bullied, Cut Hair of High School Classmate
Romney Bullied, Cut Hair
of High School Classmate
FELLOW STUDENTS SAY
May 10, 2012 9:11 AM CDT

Romney Bullied, Cut Hair of High School Classmate

He led a group that held student down, cut his hair

(Newser) - Mitt Romney led the charge in a bullying incident while he was a senior at a prestigious Michigan boarding school, five independent witnesses tell the Washington Post . The target was one John Lauber, a soft-spoken new kid at the school who was often teased for his presumed homosexuality. What set...

School Expels Bullied Kid Who Brought Stun Gun

Darnell Young will miss rest of junior year, first semester of senior year

(Newser) - The gay teen who brought a stun gun to school to defend himself against bullies—then fired said gun into the air—is paying the piper: Arsenal Tech High School has expelled Darnell "Dynasty" Young, who now won't be allowed to finish his junior year, and will miss...

Mom Sends Bullied Gay Son to School With Stun Gun

Chelisa Grimes says teachers didn't help Darnell 'Dynasty' Young

(Newser) - Chelisa Grimes was tired of her son, 17-year-old Darnell "Dynasty" Young, being bullied at school—so she sent the gay teen to class with a stun gun. "What is a parent to do when she has done everything that she felt she was supposed to do ... at the...

Dan Savage Stands By 'Bullsh**' Bible Rant

Sex columnist sparks walk-out by Christians at journalism convention

(Newser) - Dan Savage apologized yesterday for referring to Christians who walked out on his speech as "pansy ass," but stood by the Bible-bashing comments that sparked the walkout to begin with. "We can learn to ignore the bullshit in the Bible about gay people," Savage said during...

Bullied Kids 'Prone to Self Harm'

Adolescents react by cutting themselves, pulling out hair, or worse

(Newser) - Bullied children are more likely to self-harm during their adolescent years than their classmates are, the BBC reports. A British study of more than 2,000 children shows that 12-year-olds who had endured bullying were up to three times more likely to bite or cut their own arms, pull out...

Teen Sues Facebook Tormentors for Libel

She turns to court after school, police, Facebook can't help

(Newser) - When a 14-year-old girl in Georgia discovered a phony—and degrading—Facebook page created in her name, she went to her school, the police, and even Facebook itself without much luck. The page stayed up, and its creators went unpunished. As a result, Alex Boston is now suing two classmates...

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