Thank you for all your posts. Most of them are incorporated them in the monthly "10 FREE Things for..." Please continue to post free things for educators as you find them.
Here are some free Stop Bullying on the School Bus Resources
Save and Open in Adobe Reader. Set to Full Screen view, use mouse clicks to navigate the presentation forward and backward, Key Esc to exit the presentation. The presentation's strategies work well where gangs or intense violence is first remedied
This is the companion handout to the Stop Bullying on the School Buses presentation. Would like to hear back with comments on this presentation's strategies.
If schools would hire a para_ get volunteers from retired community to ride the bus, we wouldn't have 1/10th of the fights and verbal harassment going on inside the bus. 50 kids and a driver and we wonder why there are serious bus accidents and bullying going on every day? When is the last time teachers and administrators lobbied the school boards to get supervision? If we aren't part of the solution then we are part of the problem and no video clips on suggestions of how to teach kids how to behave is ever found to be useful.
Empathy starts in the home and bullies are lacking this quality. Therefor, stricter supervision on the bus and play grounds is the answer. Common sense, common sense_ when the admin's get a clue?
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