By Katie O’Malley
Last week, Governor O’Malley and I had the privilege to join hundreds of students, parents, educators, administrators, and anti-bullying experts to host an advanced screening of The Weinstein Company’s, “The Bully Project.”
I believe “The Bully Project” can be used as an educational tool to show all of us that bullying is a very serious issue. It is an insightful, yet heartbreaking documentary that sheds light on an issue that is too often overlooked as just “kids being kids.” It follows the lives of children who are tormented nearly every day by their peers and even calls our attention to how parents, teachers and administrators choose to deal with the effects of bullying. The film also takes a deeper look into the lives of parents whose children have tragically committed suicide as a result of bullying.
Following the film, we held a town hall discussion with renowned author and bullying expert Rosalind Wiseman, Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Schools David Esquith, and other great panelists to talk about bullying and what we as one community can do to stand up against it.
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1 comment:
I presented a program to WCBOE in the spring of 2011 which is a school approved curriculum to be presented in a assemby type format or to be taught in class. I even offered to pay for the start up of this program and was told that it would be reviewed and they would get back to me. I offered speakers,materials,etc. Sadly I never heard anything back. They would rather sweep the problem under the rug.
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