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New Anti-Bullying Hotline, New Web Address from Safe Schools

Business Wire, Oct 20, 2000

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PRESCOTT, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2000

Anti-bullying hot line run by Safe Schools, Safe Students has a new, user friendly web address. http://www.stopthebully.org is now active.

Bullying, hazing and harassment are everyday occurrences in the lives of thousands of students across our nations schools each day. In fact, a recent U.S. Secret Service Interim Report on the Prevention of Targeted Violence in Schools, addresses why students have targeted each other in violent school attacks as well as what implications these findings mean to the rest of us. One of the primary factors was bullying.

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The report notes that attacks such as Columbine are rarely impulsive. Indeed in most of the high profile attacks the students planned their attack for quite some time. One of the top motives being revenge. More than 75 percent of the attackers were known to hold a grievance at the time of the attack and many had indeed confided in others about these grievances prior to the attack.

Bullying played a key role in the majority of cases. In over 2/3 of the cases, the attackers felt persecuted, bullied, threatened, attacked, or injured by others prior to the incident. A number of the attackers had long-standing and severe experiences of being bullied and harassed.

In a number of the cases, attackers described experiences of being bullied in terms that approached torment. That bullying played such a major role in a number of these school attacks should strongly support efforts to combat bullying in schools.

Indeed bullying is pervasive in the workplace and does not magically end when students graduate from high school. In some recent reports as many as 37 percent of workers report being 'bullied, harassed, physically and emotionally terrorized' in the previous 30 days while at the work place.

With the number of calls increasing each day the need is obvious and critical. "The national ANTI-BULLYING HOT LINE is currently receiving thousands of contacts each day from students, parents and grand parents concerned about the effects of bullying," says Beaumont. "If there was ever any doubt as to the seriousness of bullying and its affects on our youth this hotline has dispelled all!"

Each day the hotline works with children from first grade through university and college. Now that the hotline has become so effective, and is positively changing people's lives, it is critical to keep it alive.

According to U.S. Department of Justice figures 160,000 students skip school each day due to fear of being persecuted and bullied; 20 percent of high school students are afraid to go to the school restroom because of attacks.

Beaumont is the founder of Safe Schools, Safe Students a nationwide non profit organization providing resources and workshops to schools, churches and communities on school safety including Emergency Management Planning, Bullying and In School Violence and Peer Mediation.

EDITOR's NOTE: For additional information visit their web site at http://www.stwnews.org or call toll free 877/443-9943, ext. 14 -- Mary Harvey. Donations and contributions are always needed to help maintain the phone coverage, potential donors should contact Mary at the above number, all donations are tax deductible. Beaumont and his staff are available for interview by contacting Mary Harvey.

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New Anti-Bullying Hotline, New Web Address from Safe Schools

Business Wire, Oct 20, 2000

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