Calling All Tattle-Tales
Lincoln (Neb.) Public Schools apologized after Zeman Elementary fifth-graders were sent home with an anti-bullying flier. “It’s a staff issue, so we’re taking care of the staffing error,” LPS Communications Director Mary Kay Roth said. “It wasn’t supposed to be sent home.” The flier contained nine rules for dealing with bullies, including this piece of advice: to not tell on them. “The number one reason bullies hate their victims is because the victims tell on them,” the flier reads. “Telling makes the bully want to retaliate. Tell an adult only when a real injury or crime (theft of something valuable) has occurred. Would we keep our friends if we tattled on them?” (MS/Lincoln Journal-Star) ...What administrators really want to know is who tattled on them.Original Publication Date: 04 May 2014
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 20.
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