School Bullying 'About the Same' as Last Year
Superintendent Joseph Kraemer gives his mid-year report on incidents involving harassment, intimidation and bullying.
Jefferson schools Superintendent Joseph Kraemer gave his mid-year report on harassment, intimidation and bullying at the board of education's most recent meeting, and it showed that 2013 has been more peaceful than 2012. "I did a comparison of last year and this year to date, meaning, basically, September to February to see how we're doing, and there was a decrease," Kraemer said. "What we're seeing pretty much is a decrease in activity in the elementary schools, which we're glad. We're doing a lot of extensive programs, and we're trying to educate our children on how to treat each other." "Our targeted group, really for a lot of focus, happens to be the middle school," he added. "You'll see there's about the same; we had 53 incidents …
Christine Bott
12:02 pm on Thursday, May 24, 2012
""The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about”. I just don't understand how people can be so ignorant to what bullying is!! Bullying is a major issue - whether it is verbal or abusive!!! Maybe all you ANONYMOUS or NO NAME people on this message board were the bullies back in your HS days (and obviously still ARE) just don't get it - you don't know the pain that you caused… more ›