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Title: Senate OK’s bill to curtail bullying
Post by: Shana A on March 13, 2010, 08:04:19 AM
Post by: Shana A on March 13, 2010, 08:04:19 AM
Senate OK's bill to curtail bullying
Emotions high on Beacon Hill
By James Vaznis
Globe Staff / March 12, 2010
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/03/12/senate_oks_bill_to_curtail_bullying/ (http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/03/12/senate_oks_bill_to_curtail_bullying/)
The state Senate, heeding emotional pleas from hundreds of students, unanimously passed a bill yesterday that aims to curb bullying at schools and in cyberspace.
During the emotional deliberations, which lasted more than an hour, senators repeatedly invoked the tragedies of two Western Massachusetts youths who killed themselves after allegedly being bullied in separate instances over the past year.
"The tragedy of the loss of Phoebe Prince in South Hadley and Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover in Springfield adds a crushing reminder that we need to act quickly,'' said Senator James B. Eldridge, an Acton Democrat, as he urged his colleagues to pass the bill. "If any good can come from these terrible events, it is the momentum to pass this long overdue legislation.''
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Senate approves anti-bullying bill
Jessica Van Sack By Jessica Van Sack
Friday, March 12, 2010 - Added 1d 12h ago
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100312senate_approves_anti-bullying_bill/ (http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100312senate_approves_anti-bullying_bill/)
The state Senate unanimously backed legislation to crack down on a scourge of so-called cyber-bullying in schools and set up a commission to study making such student-on-student harassment a crime.
On the heels of two brutal bullying-related suicides - that of South Hadley High School freshman Phoebe Prince and 11-year-old Springfield student Carl J. Walker Jr. - the bill would ban bullying at schools as well as the use of e-mails, text messages and Web site postings that can make for a "hostile" school environment.
Emotions high on Beacon Hill
By James Vaznis
Globe Staff / March 12, 2010
http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/03/12/senate_oks_bill_to_curtail_bullying/ (http://www.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2010/03/12/senate_oks_bill_to_curtail_bullying/)
The state Senate, heeding emotional pleas from hundreds of students, unanimously passed a bill yesterday that aims to curb bullying at schools and in cyberspace.
During the emotional deliberations, which lasted more than an hour, senators repeatedly invoked the tragedies of two Western Massachusetts youths who killed themselves after allegedly being bullied in separate instances over the past year.
"The tragedy of the loss of Phoebe Prince in South Hadley and Carl Joseph Walker-Hoover in Springfield adds a crushing reminder that we need to act quickly,'' said Senator James B. Eldridge, an Acton Democrat, as he urged his colleagues to pass the bill. "If any good can come from these terrible events, it is the momentum to pass this long overdue legislation.''
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Senate approves anti-bullying bill
Jessica Van Sack By Jessica Van Sack
Friday, March 12, 2010 - Added 1d 12h ago
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100312senate_approves_anti-bullying_bill/ (http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/20100312senate_approves_anti-bullying_bill/)
The state Senate unanimously backed legislation to crack down on a scourge of so-called cyber-bullying in schools and set up a commission to study making such student-on-student harassment a crime.
On the heels of two brutal bullying-related suicides - that of South Hadley High School freshman Phoebe Prince and 11-year-old Springfield student Carl J. Walker Jr. - the bill would ban bullying at schools as well as the use of e-mails, text messages and Web site postings that can make for a "hostile" school environment.