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No Bullying Implementation Training
Bullying behaviors can have a significant impact on the safety and climate of our schools. Implementation training and program materials for the Johnson Institute's No Bullying program are available for elementary and middle school teams committed to addressing this problem. Contact Mike Herrmann at (615) 741-3248 or [email protected] for more information.
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The Tennessee Department of Education’s Office of School Safety and Learning Support will host regional seminars for a limited number of school personnel. These seminars are being developed to assist districts in meeting the planning and policy requirements associated with the Schools Against Violence in Education (SAVE) Act.
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Misty
310(pre-surgery)
159 (current/post-pregnancy)
150 (Goal)
It's not like life isn't tough enough but as a mother this is devastating. I have been there twice.
My son and my daughter never had a weight problem and I never understood that because their mother had become morbidly obese and their father is a really tall big sized guy that has struggled with his weight his entire life. He has told me many times over the years how he was bullied at school.
However both of my children being thin were never sheltered or escaped the school bully. A bully will always seek out the weakness of another to bully or humiliate. For some reason in the warped mind of a bully there is some kind of need or fancy they get from humiliating others. I made several trips to the school about each one of them. Many times.
My reception in the school office was treated different with each time I had to go down there. Some of the staff thought it was great that their parents were involved in their child's life and they made sure they helped me with the problem. Because they know that if a parent is involved in all aspects of their child's life this child will succeed, and the majority of educators that I have been involved with (not all of em) wants your child to succeed. Then there is rest of the staff that I encountered that treated me as an over zealous over protecting mom, and they pretty much went out of their way to make sure both me and my child were miserable.
But you know what, I have found this in every facet of the work place that I have ever been employed by. You always have this one person that makes sure that everyone else in the office is miserable. I think they were the school bully when they were younger. They are miserable with themselves and miserable with their lives and they feel the need to humiliate others. I never understood it.
Dale is extremely bright, I have heard you speak of his academic accomplishments several times and it always makes me smile. Every child is different as well as they should be that just happens to be his strength...Sheila, this is not going to be easy... Somehow you have to find the strength deep down inside to over come the emotional struggles that are getting the best of you... Dale needs you and he needs you to stand up for him. Cause no one else in the whole wide world is ever gonna stand up for him except you and Todd. That does not make Dale weak in any shape form or fashion. Some will disagree with me and believe that you need to let him tough it out and get beat up emotionally and physically so that he can have a tough skin but I just happen to disagree. I believe that many people struggle so badly as adults because of the bully abuse in school when they were young.
Don't let this mountain overwhelm you... I believe that you just have to stay focused on one step at a time. It is going to be hard when you go down there because the natural instinct of a mother is to protect her cub. Try really hard to keep your emotions in tack. When people feel like they are being attacked their first reaction is to put up a shield and not help you. On this first round we want to leave the sword at home....LOL
You are not alone sweety. I have my own struggles every day... I know exactly where you are coming from... We just have to keep reminding each other that it will be okay and we can do it. Just ask some of the posters on the board that had to help me with my emotional melt down last week.. LOL I don't know what I would have done without them...
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