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 Americas 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 weeks 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 Jerseys 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 Childrens 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 weeks 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 Childrens Publishing in collaboration with over forty national organizations. The project is aimed at stopping name-calling and verbal bullying of all kinds in our nations schools. The project was inspired by James Howes 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
Absolutely. Is this the best they can do as far as instilling character in the students? No name calling? Utterly absurd. You'd think that teaching character is unconstitutional. Wait a minute.. IT IS!
"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.
Yes indeed. It's more useful to tell them what to think rather than how to think.
I've seen your pictures on your profile page (BTW I like you in the lighter hair much better than in the darker hair, but then I've always had a thing for elven lasses). Linking that to the lesbians at school harrassment thread, I'd be very careful about using the term bite me anywhere near a public school. The last thing we should give the sodomites is an invitation
From Queering the Schools:
To claim their rights, homosexuals argued (without scientific evidence) that their orientation was a genetic inheritance, like race, and thus deserved the same kind of civil protections the nation had guaranteed to blacks. An inborn, unchangeable fact, after all, could not be subject to moral disapproval.
Interesting parallel in 'I'm tired of being forced into the shadows by society' (Pedophile & Homo agenda alert)
"I think it can be both a disorder and an orientation," said Dr. Frederick Berlin, founder of the Sexual Disorders Clinic at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. While he believes people who are sexually attracted to children should not feel ashamed of their condition....
Someone needs to forward Queering the Schools to Linda Harvey (What "Gay" Marriage Will Mean for our Children).
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