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A head teacher boasted about breaking children down after reducing them to tears, a tribunal heard yesterday. Eirios Hall, in her 50s, is alleged to have humiliated and violently manhandled pupils at Ardwyn Nursery and Infant School in Welshpool, Powys. A General Teaching Council for Wales hearing was told that children would break down into [...]

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Karen David is wearing a vibrant floral vintage dress and a beaming smile when we meet at Soho House in Los Angeles. She has a lot to feel happy about. The actress and singer is soon to marry Swedish record producer Carl Ryden, she’s starring with Kiefer Sutherland in his new TV series Touch, and [...]

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The 16-year-old who has not been named for legal reasons, was camping with fellow 1st XV team-mates on the coast north of Cape Town when he was pulled out of his sleeping bag and set on by older boys for some kind of initiation ceremony. The incident, on March 17, was filmed on mobile phones [...]

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He had repeatedly failed to turn up to court and even claimed he was too afraid to leave his house. But yesterday the internet troll who threatened to kill one of Tory MP Louise Mensch’s children finally faced justice. Frank Zimmerman, 60, had been found guilty in his absence last month of sending an electronic [...]

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The mother of an openly gay high school student in the U.S. armed her son with a stun gun so that he could defend himself from bullying, saying that she had no choice. Chelisa Grimes told CNN administrators at Arsenal Technical High School in Indianapolis did not do enough to protect her son, Darnell ‘Dynasty’ [...]

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A young teacher says abuse on Twitter and Facebook by her students left her physically ill and on medication. It follows a report by a teachers’ union which found social media is increasingly being used to attack teachers. Twenty-eight-year-old Rebecca left her first teaching job after being abused online “I felt physically sick and couldn’t [...]

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My mother is a bully. Every time I see her she is at best condescending, at worst appallingly rude. I am often upset for days afterwards. I keep thinking she might change, but she won’t. My husband says I should consider stopping seeing her. This breaks my heart, but seeing her is breaking it, too. [...]

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Last month a woman named Anne Cox received the following message on Twitter: “I hope you die because you are a bitch.” This particular troll also tweeted that Cox has “big boobs and a big bottom she looks like a bitch”. The absence of a comma is the least troubling aspect of that message, but [...]

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The 16-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, consistently provoked the female member of staff over her beliefs in what is understood to be the first case of its kind. A court heard how the defendant discovered through friends that his victim was a Pagan – a legally recognised religion – and then “jumped on [...]

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Nearly 15,000 children – some as young as four – have been excluded in the last five years for committing sex attacks in school. Figures released today revealed more than 1,100 of those expelled or suspended over sexual abuse were primary school children. Boys aged just four have been kicked out of schools in Dorset, [...]

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It started with a phone call from the hospital. ‘They said Dominic’s in A&E and he’s very poorly,’ recalls Paola Crouch, staring out of the window of her spick-and-span living room in Gretton, Gloucestershire. Photos of her son Dominic, her daughter Giulia and her husband Roger perch on every bookcase and windowsill. Dominic was 15 [...]

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When Liz Crowter put pictures of her vivacious daughter on a Down’s syndrome support group’s website, she had hoped to show others how those with the condition were ‘just like you and me’. But her efforts have backfired after internet ‘trolls’ stole the family snaps of Heidi, now 16, from the site – and published them [...]

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A teenage girl sends a naked image of herself to her boyfriend’s mobile phone. It’s not something she makes a habit of doing, but she wants to express the young couple’s intimacy. They split up, and she soon discovers that he has circulated that private message to all his friends – even to her parents [...]

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It was 3.45 on a Friday afternoon. The tears came almost as soon as the bell sounded and quickly became those choking sobs that prevent words from coming out, let alone making sense. She sat at one of the desks where the PSHE lesson on bullying had just taken place and allowed the emotions to [...]

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During 20 years as an investigative reporter I’ve been shot at, beaten, abused on the streets in front of my children and forced to move house more than 50 times because of death threats. I’ve often asked myself why I have followed this dangerous road. On any single day I could meet gangsters who openly [...]

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A headmistress of a prestigious girls’ school ‘singled out’ a member of staff and bullied her because of her ‘inappropriate’ dress sense, a tribunal was told yesterday. Nicky Walsh, 57, was repeatedly reduced to tears by the ‘belligerent’ attitude of Elizabeth Robinson while she was employed at the £13,000-a-year Brigidine School. The sprawling school, which [...]

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More than two-thirds of teachers have experienced or witnessed workplace bullying in the past 12 months, with one in five victims quitting their job as a result, according to a poll published by the teaching union NASUWT. The survey revealed that 67% witnessed or were subject to bullying, harassment and abuse from colleagues. The grim [...]

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A nine-year-old prodigy who lives in a council house is set to perform in front of thousands of ballet fans at the London Coliseum.   Charlie Salsen, from Ilford, has overcome shyness and bullying at school to land a starring role in an adaptation of Tolstoy novel Anna Karenina by acclaimed Russian choreographer Boris Eifman. [...]

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A coroner warned yesterday that the “gross failure” of mental health services to help an autistic boy, who was bullied and committed suicide, could be a national problem affecting others with similar behavioural needs. Bradford coroner Paul Marks said the death of Gareth Oates, from Stowmarket, Suffolk, could probably have been averted if it had not [...]

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A coroner warned yesterday that the “gross failure” of mental health services to help an autistic boy, who was bullied and committed suicide, could be a national problem affecting others with similar behavioural needs. Bradford coroner Paul Marks said the death of Gareth Oates, from Stowmarket, Suffolk, could probably have been averted if it had not [...]

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A coroner warned yesterday that the “gross failure” of mental health services to help an autistic boy, who was bullied and committed suicide, could be a national problem affecting others with similar behavioural needs. Bradford coroner Paul Marks said the death of Gareth Oates, from Stowmarket, Suffolk, could probably have been averted if it had not [...]

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Police are hunting for internet trolls who taunted the mother of a teenager killed in a moped crash — saying he was still alive. Jordan Agar was killed in an accident last Friday, the day after his 16th birthday, when he crashed into a wall at a junction. A fake Facebook profile was set up [...]

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Time to stop stigmatising mental health problems at school A headteacher asks: is “mental” the new “gay”? One in ten children between the ages of one and 15 has a mental health disorder so surely it’s time to take a serious look at how the language we use stigmatises mental health problems. Photograph: plainpicture “What [...]

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A gay deputy headteacher who held a “coming out” assembly says homophobia in schools should be treated in the same way as racism. Shaun Dellenty, from Alfred Salter primary in Southwark, warned that many talented gay people are put off teaching because of fears of homophobia, and schools are not taking the problem seriously enough. [...]

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Boy, 16, locked up for ten months after circulating explicit photo and video of girl, 14, to pupils at her school By DAILY MAIL REPORTER A teenager who circulated an indecent photograph and an explicit video of a 14-year-old girl to pupils at her school has been jailed for 10 months. The 16-year-old, who cannot [...]

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The mother of an autistic teenager who killed himself in front of a train has told an inquest that he suffered years of intimidation at the hands of college bullies. Glenys Oates told a coroner of her desperate battle to get mental health intervention for her son Gareth who had already tried to kill himself [...]

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Two-thirds of parents say they have witnessed bullying and intimidation on the school sports field, a survey suggests. A poll of 1,250 eight to 16-year-old pupils and 1,010 parents for cricket charity Chance to Shine suggests some pupils are put off sport as a result. More than half of the pupils surveyed say they have [...]

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As any football fan knows, ‘mind games’ and intimidation are all too familiar in professional sport. Yet such behaviour is already rearing its ugly head at primary school. Children as young as eight say they are the victims of psychological warfare and bullying on the playing field. They are teased, taunted and sworn at during [...]

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For four years at his Tennessee high school, Jacob Rogers was bullied for being gay. He repeatedly appealed to school administrators for help, but didn’t get much. Around Thanksgiving of last year, it got so bad that he quit going to school. In early December, not long after turning 18, he killed himself. Jacob, who [...]

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A 14-year-old schoolgirl has hanged herself after enduring two years of relentless bullying by her female classmates. Eden Wormer, an eighth grade student at Cascade Middle School in Vancouver, Washington, committed suicide on Wednesday after her efforts at trying to fit in failed. Her older sister Audri said Eden changed her appearance several times, dying [...]

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debate about how film-makers are bullied into censoring work that may upset America’s “family values” lobby. At issue is a restrictive “R”rating recently given to Bully, a documentary released this month. It means children under the age of 17 will be unable to watch the film, which follows five bullied teenagers, unless a parent or [...]

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In the end it was a “no-brainer”, according to Paddy Storrie, deputy head of St George’s, a faith school in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, which today will receive a national award for the way it has tackled homophobic bullying. He had just seen some material produced by Stonewall, the gay rights campaign group, on the effect of [...]

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Last summer, my daughter Matilda was thrilled to be invited to her friend Ruby’s eighth birthday sleepover along with another little girl. She eagerly counted down the days to the big night, so when I collected her the following day I was surprised when Ruby’s mum Louise explained there had been a bit of a [...]

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There are rainbow-coloured posters set high on the wall where they can’t be ripped down easily, screenings of films with gay themes or characters and guest speakers who talk candidly about their sexuality. But perhaps the boldest feature of the new school club is simply the fact that it uses the word “gay” in its [...]

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As a child, her frizzy ginger hair made her a prime target for playground bullies. Devastated by taunts of ‘Orphan Annie’, Natalie Harvey dyed and straightened her hair as soon as she was old enough. At 35, and having spent more than £10,000 taming her locks, the mother of one thought she had left the [...]

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The American actress said she was a “goth kid” with purple hair and black make-up as a youngster, which led to her being persecuted by her high school peers. The 36-year-old, who shot to fame as Joan Holloway in the US television drama Mad Men, claimed classmates often spat on her in the corridor. She [...]

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The streets of Clitheroe have played unhappy host to a nightmarish tale of our times. In the Lancashire market town, a 13-year-old rape victim has been subjected to a horrifying hate campaign by online bullies. After being attacked and going to the police, she was then branded ‘a lying little skank’ and worse on internet [...]

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Hundreds of thousands of young people are being subjected to cyberbullying, with many being victimised for a year or more, new research suggests. The Beatbullying study, based on a survey of 4,605 children and young people in the UK, found that just over one in four (28%) 11-16-year-olds say they have been the victim of [...]

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Thousands of children are too frightened to go to school or suffer depression and even attempt suicide after being targeted by ‘cyber bullies’, according to a study. It found 28 per cent of children aged 11 to 16 had experienced bullying on the internet or via a mobile phone. The most common form was a [...]

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Thousands of children are too frightened to go to school or suffer depression and even attempt suicide after being targeted by ‘cyber bullies’, according to a study. It found 28 per cent of children aged 11 to 16 had experienced bullying on the internet or via a mobile phone. The most common form was a [...]

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A former assistant head teacher ‘bullied, intimidated, undermined and victimised’ her colleagues, including one young teacher who collapsed and died on school premises, a disciplinary panel has heard. While employed as acting deputy head in South Yorkshire Moira Ogilvie, 40, allegedly ‘bullied’ staff, made them spy on each other and acted in an inappropriate manner [...]

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Babies are being brought into classrooms to cut bullying and teach children empathy. Primary schools in Lewisham and Croydon will be the first in England to use infants to educate children as young as four about emotional literacy. Babies have been brought into lessons before to highlight the realities of teenage parenthood, but this is [...]

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Marcus Trescothick, the former England cricketer, and Jonny Wilkinson, England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup winner, are supporting the campaign to get more people to talk openly about mental health problems. The Department of Health has provided £16 million for the Time to Change campaign, aimed at children in schools and youth clubs and via social networking [...]

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She’s the kooky star of the hit sitcom New Girl who is known for being funny and upbeat. But Zooey Deschanel says she wasn’t very popular when she was growing up. The 31-year-old actress – who appears on the February cover of Allure – tells the beauty magazine that she was bullied at school. ‘Girls [...]

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A schoolgirl leaped to her death from a bridge over a main road after being bullied by people at school and around her family home, with rumours circulating that she was ‘promiscuous’, an inquest heard today. The inquiry into the death of Simone Grice, 15, heard that there were suggestions she had been meeting men [...]

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A 15-year-old girl leapt off a road bridge to her death after suffering years of bullying by fellow pupils and neighbours, an inquest has heard. Simone Grice plunged 45m (150ft) and was found clinging to her mobile phone and clutching a ragdoll she had cherished since early childhood. Grice, from Redruth in Cornwall, had recently [...]

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A 15-year-old girl who was ‘tormented by bullies’ has died after she was hit by a bus while clutching a suicide note. Witnesses saw Amanda Cummings of Staten Island jump in front of the city bus just two days after Christmas, a NYPD spokesman said. She was critically hurt in the collision, and eventually succumbed [...]

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Dorking head teacher Andre Sohatski has called in police over a controversial website popular with private school pupils that allows children to post “cruel and unfair” anonymous messages about each other.

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An anti-bullying campaigner whose 15-year-old son killed himself a year ago has been found dead at his home.

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