Recently all over the news: Lady Gaga is making big efforts to prevent bullying. She went to the White House yesterday to speak about bullying, and she has started her own foundation — called the Born This Way Foundation. Gaga feels for the youth who are being bullied, as she herself was bullied in highContinue reading “Wait to go, Lady Gaga!”
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Quebec mourns Marjorie Raymond’s suicide.
Fifteen-year-old Marjorie Raymond committed suicide in the Gaspésie region on November 28th, hardly two weeks ago. Apparently Marjorie was being bullied both at school and online; and her tormenters had been expelled from school just a few days prior to Marjorie’s suicide. The tragic event sent shockwaves through the province of Quebec, where many YouTubeContinue reading “Quebec mourns Marjorie Raymond’s suicide.”
Windsor participates in Anti-Bullying Week 2011.
In Windsor, Ontario, a group of 215 high school students participated in a flashmob against cyberbullying to celebrate worldwide Anti-Bullying Week. Their motto? “Control, escape, delete cyberbullying” – written on their t-shirts. If only it were that simple. In any case, that’s a start, Canada. Good job, Windsor students!
Was this type of bullying in fashion in the 90s?
We didn’t have any share buttons in the 90s as far as I can remember. But bullying was definitely happening. The Internet existed in the 90s as well. This commercial, recently put out by Microsoft, shows a family having fun together in their living room. The father is ‘dancing’ to one of Microsoft’s new KinectContinue reading “Was this type of bullying in fashion in the 90s?”