Today an on-line teaching community I read led me to an interesting (and sobering) article about the bullying of teachers by parents or students.

I've certainly been the victim of some concerted efforts (my administrator's words, not mine) by my students to malign my reputation with false accusations of things I've said or done (or not) in the ( Read more... )

This will be a difficult entry in this series on my thoughts about bullying, because I try to avoid talking about my workplace here. Still, my students are a set of case studies within the broader picture of modern bullying.

My family has a bantering sense of humor. To outsiders it can seem like we don't have the fuzzy, loving relationship that they ( Read more... )

As bright, motivated students, we were easy targets for bullying. Some of us handled it better than others (some, like me, so well that most bullies just gave up). Others, not as well, but having each other made a big difference to us all. We didn't need anything but ourselves to have a good time, and we had fun no matter where we were or what we ( Read more... )