Sometimes the best way to reach out to teens is through their peers.
Pop band New Hollow performed at Zanesville High School as a preview to its show at Secrest Auditorium Saturday night. Before the boys rocked out on stage, they spoke out to students about the dangers of bullying.
"We're a little older, but we're still in high school, so we're around the same age, and it's a bit easier," said Mick Clouse. "With adults talking to kids, sometimes they'll...
Governor John Kasich is taking a stand against bullying by signing a bill that requires schools to update their policies.
Under the new law, administrators must address harassment and intimidation sent electronically. Student Service Coordinator Kevin Appleman said Zanesville City Schools revised its guidelines back in 2007 to cover cyber bullying.
"This is a tough situation for all school districts," said Appleman. It's tough to detect it. When we are...
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After a fight on the playground, four Zanesville students are now suspended from Zane Grey Elementary School for beating up a 4th grade boy. But the mother of the boy said the school handled the situation wrong.
10-year-old Peyton Woosley shows bruises that remain from Wednesday's fight on the playground.
"This is where they threw me down, and my arm hit the bench,"...
If a kid should choose to bully, the consequences can be harsh, and with good reason. We spoke with local law enforcement officials who want kids to understand that making that choice to hurt others can come back and affect their own futures.
Phoebe Prince is just one name in a list of constantly-bullied teens who have gone on to take their own lives. Those responsible for the bullying leading up to her death have been held accountable and a series of bullying-related suicides have...
Recent tragedies have heightened the awareness of bullying, and schools are taking a stand.
Four bullied Mentor High School students took their own lives between 2006 and 2008. An attorney for two of the families says the Mentor School District had a hands-off approach to bullying, however, the district's superintendent says they are working to fight it. One strategy encourages elementary school students to take a pledge to stand up to bullies and report them to adults. Local...
School districts across the country are reporting more bullying incidents.
In fact, a new study shows that about 170 thousand students a year stay home because they are scared of bullying.
Mark Brown spoke with students at both Maysville and West Muskingum Middle Schools as part of a national outreach program to show why this is a difficult time in these students' lives.
"Because they want to fit in. They're not quite sure where everything belongs, so they are trying...
Bullying in school is becoming more and more of a problem in young kids that's why one local school is fighting against it.
Somerset Elementary held an anti-bullying assembly this morning to help raise awareness of the growing problem.
Perry County Juvenile Court Judge Luann Cooperrider said she was approached by the principals of the area schools about the problems they were seeing, so they put this program together.
"We want to make sure kids are not bullied. We...
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