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No Name Calling Week to be March 1-5th; Thousands of Schools to Participate
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Posted on 02/19/2004 10:13:19 AM PST by hsmomx3

No Name-Calling Week Coalition Announces National Plans for Week Aimed at Ending Name-Calling and Bullying in America’s Schools

Thousands of Schools Taking Part in “No Name-Calling Week”

New York, NY - The No Name-Calling Week Coalition today announced local and national plans for its inaugural No Name-Calling Week project. During the week of March 1 - 5, 2004, thousands of middle schools from around the country will take part in a week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling and verbal bullying of all kinds. To date, over 3,500 school administrators and educators from all 50 states have come on board for participation in the week’s events with hundreds more signing up each week

On the morning of Monday, March 1st, No Name-Calling Week will commence with concurrent events at the Los Angeles and New York Simon Wiesenthal Center - Museums of Tolerance. At both events, students from local middle schools will participate in a facilitated lesson plan about name-calling and experience relevant exhibits of the museum. The students will also have an opportunity to interact with their peers on the opposite coast about their experiences when the dual events are video-conferenced at the end of the New York session

Individual schools, local school districts and statewide organizations are setting up various events throughout the week. In Trenton, New Jersey’s Attorney General will hold a press conference to kick-off New Jersey Cares About Bullying as part of their No Name-Calling Week. The Minneapolis county health department will conduct a school climate forum for educators and students that focuses on bullying. Events are also being held in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Washington, DC and throughout the nation

No Name-Calling Week seeks to generate national attention to the problem of name-calling in schools and to provide students and educators with the tools and inspiration to launch an on-going dialogue about ways to eliminate name-calling in their communities. The project was inspired by The Misfits, a book written by popular author James Howe and published by Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

A resource guide with lesson plans, a video for classroom use and other promotional materials are available to educators to assist in facilitating the week’s activities at www.NoNameCallingWeek.org.

About No Name-Calling Week

No Name-Calling Week, to be observed March 1 - 5, 2004, is a project of the No Name-Calling Week Coalition, created by GLSEN and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing in collaboration with over forty national organizations. The project is aimed at stopping name-calling and verbal bullying of all kinds in our nation’s schools. The project was inspired by James Howe’s book The Misfits, where four outcast students come together to end name-calling in their school and end up establishing “No Name-Calling Day.” To obtain comprehensive curriculum resources, more information on this weeklong event and a complete list of organizational partners, visit www.NoNameCallingWeek.org


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bullying; education; glsen; govtschooling; homosexual; homosexualagenda; namecalling; prisoners; publicschools
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1 posted on 02/19/2004 10:13:20 AM PST by hsmomx3
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To: hsmomx3
And anyone who doesn't participate will be a bunch of poopyheads.
2 posted on 02/19/2004 10:14:36 AM PST by theDentist (Boston: So much Liberty, you can buy a Politician already owned by someone else.)
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To: hsmomx3
Anything to take time away from teaching...sick!!!!
3 posted on 02/19/2004 10:17:41 AM PST by alisasny (John Kerry is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.)
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To: hsmomx3
Hm. What should we homeschooling families do to mark the occasion? :-)
4 posted on 02/19/2004 10:18:03 AM PST by lainie
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To: hsmomx3
What a bunch of stupid wussies!
5 posted on 02/19/2004 10:22:17 AM PST by Living Free in NH
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To: hsmomx3
The project is aimed at stopping name-calling and verbal bullying of all kinds in our nation’s schools.

No it's not. Check out their web site. It's got gay and lesbian written all over it. The sticker link is to a gay web site.

If the public schools were doing what they were designed to do, a no name-calling week would be unnecessary.

6 posted on 02/19/2004 10:22:47 AM PST by Dataman
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To: hsmomx3
National Brotherhood Week by Tom Lehrer


Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks.
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.

But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise,
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.

But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand.
You can tolerate him if you try.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.

But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear.
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
7 posted on 02/19/2004 10:24:09 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Dataman
The schools are too busy to teach while they figure out how to make their results look good amid tighting standards...
8 posted on 02/19/2004 10:24:32 AM PST by alisasny (John Kerry is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.)
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To: lainie
What should we homeschooling families do to mark the occasion?

Make up names for dumb government educators?

OR

A 2 page essay on the degeneration of education in America?

9 posted on 02/19/2004 10:25:08 AM PST by MamaTexan (Is anyone obligated to obey an unconstitutional government?)
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To: Dataman
I guess playing "Smear the Queer" (a.k.a. "Kill the Man with the Ball") at recess is completely verboten.
10 posted on 02/19/2004 10:25:12 AM PST by Constitution Day (NLC™)
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To: hsmomx3
No Name Week?

Who's the butt-munch that came up with that?

11 posted on 02/19/2004 10:26:01 AM PST by Bambino
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To: hsmomx3; little jeremiah
No Name-Calling Week, to be observed March 1 - 5, 2004, is a project of the No Name-Calling Week Coalition, created by GLSEN and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing...

It figures the perverts with their twisted lifestyles would be hanging around.

12 posted on 02/19/2004 10:26:08 AM PST by upchuck (Ta-ray-za now gets to execute her "maiming of choice." I'm hoping for eye gouging, how 'bout you?)
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To: hsmomx3
Rush reporting this now...
13 posted on 02/19/2004 10:26:09 AM PST by whinecountry (Semper Ubi Sub Ubi)
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To: hsmomx3
Bastards!

Oops!

14 posted on 02/19/2004 10:27:15 AM PST by CWW (The Passion -- See it, then live it!)
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To: hsmomx3; little jeremiah; scripter; ArGee; lentulusgracchus; Bryan

No Name-Calling Week, to be observed March 1 - 5, 2004, is a project of the No Name-Calling Week Coalition, created by GLSEN and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing in collaboration with over forty national organizations.


Seems that GLSEN never ceases to invent new programs that will allow them access to public school kids.

Queering the Schools (excerpt posted here )

The American Child After Same-Sex Marriage


What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda


Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)

15 posted on 02/19/2004 10:29:07 AM PST by EdReform (Support Free Republic - All donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!)
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To: upchuck
If I didn't read another story with GLSEN in it, I wouldn't know what it is. I knew there had to be something to this.
16 posted on 02/19/2004 10:29:09 AM PST by cyborg
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To: Dataman
So, basically, it's another attempt at

"We're going to behave in whatever manner we want to, you cannot judge or deride us, and what's more, you will pay to alleviate the consequences of our behaviors."


Typical leftists.
17 posted on 02/19/2004 10:29:36 AM PST by MrB
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To: scripter; Wordsmith
Something for your homosexual agenda files
18 posted on 02/19/2004 10:29:45 AM PST by cyborg
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To: hsmomx3
INTREP - EDUCATION - POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
19 posted on 02/19/2004 10:30:18 AM PST by LiteKeeper
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To: hsmomx3
Now they're just being stupid heads.
20 posted on 02/19/2004 10:31:01 AM PST by blackdog (Churchill si veveret, ad remum dareris!)
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