Bullying addressed in local schools | battlecreekenquirer.com | The Enquirer
Nicholas, a 14-year-old eighth-grader at W.K. Kellogg Middle School, has autism and sensory integration dysfunction, Shook said, and he gets bullied for it regularly. "The danger zone" consists of classes where the taunting -- mostly verbal, sometimes physical -- are the worst, Shook said.
"The kids know when they can get away with it," he said.
The 47-old-parent said the school disciplined students and orchestrated a meeting between Shook and the bullies' parents, but still Nicholas is picked on.
So Shook recently picketed outside his son's school, trying to raise awareness about the dangers of bullying and rally support for state lawmakers to pass an anti-bullying law.
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Bullies are just as likely to be popular, athletic, well-liked kids as they are to be social outcasts lashing out for attention, researchers have found.
nterviewed for Education.com, the Committee for Children's Miriam Hirschstein said kids bully for "social mileage" -- they put others down to build themselves up. And researchers found children become chronic bullies when they believe violence or put-downs are acceptable behavior.
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