nobody ever says they're a bully. we're a world of being bullie bullied.i was a bully, i also got bullied. we choose not to remember the fact we bullied somebody when we were younger. generally, bullying has to do with one person bullies this person, this person bullies another person. that is the way it is. >> kimberly: do you think you were a bully? >> greg: definitely. when i was a kid, i bullied people. i was also bullied. it was part of in a way liking people. you bullied them sometimes because you liked them. >> bob: you were a bully? >> greg: yes. >> andrea: here is a positive story. video of young boy, special needs boy with cerebral palsy. she not being bullied. she cheered on by his classmates. he is cheered on in a race and it got a million hits on youtube. >> go. >> go, matty! >> c'mon! ♪ ♪ [ cheering ] >> andrea: now that is how you treat your fellow classmates. that is 11-year-old matt woodrow of ohio. bob is tearing up. i know. >> bob: that is a wonderful thing to show. it also shows when you say what kids learn from watching their parents,

bullying. >> you're bullying the bullies by pointing this out. >> reporter: but he also received a stream of e-mails supporting him. either way the boston globe's story had turned the death of a young girl in a small town into national news. and now, like so many others, phoebe's father wanted answers. he said cullin's column gave him hope that his daughter's death would not be ignored. >> it meant, i think, that this wouldn't be hushed. it meant this is out in the open now. >> reporter: the article made people wonder just how bad things had gotten for phoebe. what really happened to her at south hadley high? the local district attorney was one of those asking that question. and she was determined to find the answers. >> coming up -- >> our investigation revealed that it was, in fact, a campaign. >> reporter: a campaign of what? >> of tormenting, of making her life miserable. >> it was about to make headlines around the world. what happened to >>> was phoebe prince really bullied to death? it was the question on everyone's mind in south hadley in early 2010. but there was one woman who ha

people are still bullied. i was bullied as a kid. >> and you were a bully. everybody says they were bullied. no one says they were a bully. i was a bully and i was bullied. >> jerk! >> it is like that thing where nobody remembers -- they never remember when they are gambling. they never remember their losses. they only remember their wins. the same thing with bullying. everybody says i remember that guy billy used to beat me up. but there was that day you beat up tommy because billy beat you up. it is like "the lord of the flies." >> i just think we need more bullies. >> and by the way, many celebrities claim they were bullied. in order to become a celebrity -- >> you have to bully. >> you are creating celebrities. >> i was a verbal bullier. >> i bet you were snide. >> the only retaliation i got was getting the [bleep] kicked out of me. >> you liked that. >> i prefer it. i pay for it now. >> bill, let's play a game i call pretending what bill says matters. the principal had him remove it for security reasons, his shirt. is that a good point. >> for his secur

when kids are bullied, especially cyber bullying. how did you and your brother deal with that? >> well, we went to my parents, and they really helped us with it, and that's what i think most kids don't do, but it's really important to go to your parents because in the end they're really the main support. >> well, i think it's great what you're doing. you're obviously young but leading the charge in this bullying walk. in case anybody can make it over to west virginia tonight, can you give us all the information where it's happening and what time? >> it will be happening at st. agnes church in shepherdstown. the walk is two miles long. it's free and we really encourage a lot of people to come out to find out about bullying. >> lexi, thanks for getting up so early with us this morning. we'll check in with you later on. >> okay. >> we'll put that information on abc2news.com as well. >>> some teachers go above and beyond to help out their students, no doubt about it, and a fundraiser tonight is meant to help some very special students. m

. >> what happens when bullying goes viral. >>> it is bullying taken to a whole new level, cyber bullying allows millions of people to witness some body's humiliation on the internet. a young maryland teen tells denise koch it happened to him and you will hear why his life has never been the same. >> reporter: you are looking at the face of a new kind of victim, young people who kill themselves when cyber bullies make life unbearable. >> this has got to stop. >> reporter: easter sunday, howard county it happens again. 15-year-old grace takes her own life, her parents blame cyber bullies who preyed on her for months. >> harassment, once limited to hallwayclassroomplaygrounds, now floods cyber space. 8 out of 10 teens admit they have been victims of online bullying. >> reporter: 14-year-old darren king was bullied at school for years. >> taunting and toasting he has been bullied on and off since fourth grade. >> reporter: a fight video from his middle school in southern maryland went viral. one day he got fed up and threw a punch. another student, videotaped him getting beat up. >> no body

bullies who are no longer bullies. >>> in san francisco and an anti bullying message the new leader ofto the castro steep streets store to remind the grown-ups to stick up for lpg chief youth >>> and grew up in arkansas and know what it is like to be isolated and fear the next day it is our job as adults and human rights campaign to improve the lives of those elegy beat the young people. something harvey talked about day in and day out >>> chad griffin was joined by activists at the camera store owned by harvey milk. 60 percent of those polled when the law prohibiting bullying against algae bt youths. a red flag warning remains in the bay area tonight after a day of dry and windy weather. anne mackovic with more. >>> it is real hot and dry and we have a breeze it contributes to the fire behavior >>> with red flag warnings in effect firefighters go door to door in high danger areas to make sure homeowners have cleared defensible space around their house. >>> this is a good break it is defensible >>> extra concern after this fire season after a relatively dry winter >>> it seems this yea

is a play about bullying. what it's about. >> the project is based on a book "bullyside in america," compiled by brenda high and set for mothers who have lost their son or daughter to suicide due to excessive bullying. and when i read the book, i could certainly hear the voice of the mother, but i could also hear the voice of their son or daughter. >> the lasting, the insults, and i didn't even know his name. >> and being a theater teacher, it became then for me, how can i go there to get there with my students? and that was then the premise for the bullycide project in taking these stories, bringing them back to life, so to speak, and educating young audiences who these people were. >> kelsey, i know, while you're in town here in atlanta, you've shot this music video, and also related to bullying. tell me about that and who is involved with that. >> that was also my first music video, so it was very fun. the scene in the building is actually in the background, so that was cool it was shot with a pop group rem

also related to bullying.ut that and who was involved with that. >> that was awesome, my first music video, lots of fun of the cnn building is in the background, so that's cool. it was shot with a young pop group remix. i grew up with them. they are from mississippi as well. we got a lot of kids, younger kids from mississippi to come up. the video is powerful. it's called "beautiful." it's about you're beautiful no matter what you think. you don't have to look at girls on tv or in the magazine. you're beautiful. just be yourself. ♪ >> it was really powerful. some of the kids that came up, they had been bullied before. it was really great, an awesome opportunity. i'm glad for it to come out. >> if there's a child watching this morning or a teenager or anybody being bullied right now at school and doesn't know what to do about it at camp this time of year, what's your advice to them? >> my advice is something i didn't do for a long time, tell. have you to. you can't go through it alone. for friends, if you know

no way of bullying is a problem and i think there's a lot more national attention being put on it now because there have been some really try. cases right where kids have taken their own lives because of it i've seen commercials against cyber bullying and maybe the cyber aspect has made it i think that's easier for kids to bully but not only has been around of course it has and i think the video aspect to really brings awareness you know a kid on the bus took a video with a cell phone this happened on monday and it's thursday and the whole nation is talking about it so i think that really i think with the whole bullying thing though as you're right like maybe it's not maybe it's not worse than in other countries however it's been around just always been around however there's this idea of mentality that bullying is ok and that's just what happens when you grow up like you're going to get bullied you should expect that it's ok it's a part of growing up when in fact if an adult can't take the kind of bullying that kids are going through then you know we shouldn't be expecting children t

you might call it at this baptist church anti bully in school. classes' in how to combat bullying. every summer, the layoffs and friendship baptist church get students together it began six years ago to combat violence. this year and it is about bullying brought to live by recent videos. she was beaten in a school bathroom by an eighth grader. >>> 11 year-old girl being beaten by a 14 year-old while classmates watched. she still suffers from a concussion. over the next few days the youth summit gets across the message. >>> conflict resolution classe'' allow them to have an opportunity to share experience >>> including role-playing with former bullies. >>> one of our young ladies is a notorious former bully. she has made a change. he is no longer a bully and uses a message to other young people to help them make the change. >>> of the preaching to the choir >>> not all archers kids someone by others from the community who did not attend church we hope to reach all the and people that everyone has been impacted by a bully. it will impact them for all of their lives >>> tonight the ki

so the anti-bullying was stranded.my own, i completed the work, brought it to the point it was ready for publication. i approached the commission on gay and lesbian youth to see if they could find the publication and distribution of the guide. they were enthusiastic. their money was in minister by the department of public health. we were on track to get published until may 2006. then we hit a roadblock. we already made arrangements with the printers, were ready to roll, then told a new level of review and scrutiny had been imposed and it could take seven weeks. it never reached its conclusion while romney was in office. i am skeptical it was a good faith review process. >> were you surprised to hear now about this discovery of the 2006 email that objects to "the bisexual and transgender" language in your report? >> that is somewhat surprising. i knew romney have particular contempt for transgender americans. that is something we have seen in other contexts. >> how did you know that? >> well, from talking to other offic

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so, there is bullying, i think it's probably mutual here. >> i think the latinos are being bullied right now by jan brewer in arizona. i think you have a lot of people, elderly are being bull idea. women are being bull idea. the war on women we all know about that contra session. it's a true war that has been going on. >> laura: that's right. that 9.99 a month from wal-mart is hard for people to cover with their cable bills and everything thels he are buying. >> there has been a war on minorities. we knee congress has started many of these wars. congress is a white man's world it is largely made up of white men. >> laura: wait a second. we have got a guy in the white house, i'm going to start laughing here. who is half african-american. >> right. >> we have an attorney general who is african-american. we have a african-american on the supreme court. i know he doesn't count, clarence thomas because he doesn't agree with the elite prevailing wisdom on the left. we had secretaries of state who are african-american. we have music moguls who are african-american. we have high tech executives.

victim of a cyber bullying, your brother was also bullied. how did it affect you guys? did you not want to go to school? >> i was cyber bullied, my brother did not want to go to school but my parents ended up making him go. but how he really -- how we really got through it was by telling our parents. >> tell us about the walk tonight. this is a way to get the word out and get the community involved. >> it starts at 8:00 p.m. at st. agness in downtown shepherds town and we're really hoping a lot of people can come so we can get the word out and stop this in our community. >> do you think doing something like a walk and talking with your parents is the best way to cope with bullying if you're on that end of it? >> it is one of the best ways and even if there's no walk around you or if you don't feel comfortable talking to your parents, then you can also go to a family member, a trusted adult or a guidance counselor. >> 14 years old, lexi, we're very impressed with you. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> we appreciate it. i know this is early i

he the bullying was probably secondary issue for me personally.ut these days i watch my own children in school and they have to come in their own way because they have two dads. so my third grader had an issue this year with a fellow student who made fun of him because he had two dads. which i thought was a sad statement in the 21st century in pakistans o san francisco. but his teach used it as a teachable moment and said families come i all shames and sizes and it turned out for the best but it could have been a not healthy situation for my son. >> i'm glad the teacher stepped? >> the school was amazing. >> helen, i want to talk to you about the issue of bullying and teens and kids in school. >> i think everybody coming through childhood can relate to being treated differently some way or another or -- and how harmful that is. >> is bullying -- >> for being different in any way and for lgbt kids its something that's life-threatening as we have unfortunately seen in too many cases where kids have been driven to suicide. we talked about violence, i

schools to report bullying to parenting.have a procedure for providing immediate notification to the parents of a victim of bullying or harassment. did the school ever alert the parents to the bullying? >> no they did not. as a matter of fact the parents did not know. and they did inquire at that time, a few months later after it happened sent e-mails and letters to the superintendent and to pasco county schools to do an investigation because they wanted to have answers. and the only thing that was available was a newspaper article right after it happened that zachary had been bullied. >> and we reach it out to zachary's school district and they told us that there was never a report made to the school either through the students, family members or staff members regarding bullying. do you know if he ever complained to a teacher? >> he went to a teacher and told the teacher. >> what did he tell the teacher? >> he told the teacher that he was being called tag, gay, we're, man bobs, all kinds of hateful stuff like that until hal

the bill is aimed at than couraging young people to report bullying and anyone who cooperates in a bully investigation. >> today we're taking yet another bold and concrete step towards eradicating bullying in our city. the youth bullying prevention act of 2012 immediately authorizes a task force to develop a city-wide antibullying model policy that will cover the places where youth are often the targets of bullying. >> task force member david mariner joins us. you were also the director of the city's lgbt community center. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> what will this bill mean for witnesses, victims and the bullies themselves? >> i think what it means is people's concerns and people's complaints about bullying are going to be taken more seriously. the legislation calls for a task force to be put together comprised of dc agency leadership, community members, and activists, and to encourage the agencies that interact with young people, to set up guidelines for how to handle these situations. >> we know the bullying has received a lot of attention lately in the news. dc's new a

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this year it is against bullying. this student was beaten in the bathroom by an eighth grader. >>> they will try to hurt me >>> 11 year-old attack by 14 year-old as classmates watched. >>> a cannot tell your cannot remember >>> she still suffers from a concussion over the next few days may youth summit will try to get across the message >>> we work on conflict resolution and classes' to allow them to have an opportunity to share experiences >>> one of our young leaders ladies a prime example she was a notorious bully. when they see heard the will be blown away she has made this change. >>> she is no longer a bully >>> no longer and she uses this message to young people to make the change >>> and are the preaching to the choir? >>> not all are church kids some of the kids invite members from the community who do not attend church was built to reach all the young people. and everyone who has been impacted by a bully it will impact them for all of their lives. >>> a alleluia dahlia the next song >>> getting people to ove

. >> bullying is everywhere, even actor will more valdarama starts a campaign to stomp out bullying.e tells us all about it on,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it's 6:30. it remains a dine mate day start. lots of sunshine, less humidity and less of a breeze. it's christy in for sharon and marty is at first warning weather. >> 68 right now on tv hill. that's going to be the exact same temperature but not the same feel as yesterday morning. by lunch 78 on a way to a high of a gentle 82. 77, beautiful this wednesday evening. don. >>> how about the rush right now? here is christy breslin with wjz traffic control. >> southbound 295 we still have minor delay there past 32. same situation on southbound 95 at white marsh boulevard. the beltway still moving well, average speed about 60. we have a new accident in baltimore, that's shannon drive at dougly avenue. travel times on the outer loop 58. things are moving along fairly well on the west side at baltimore national pike. this traffic report is brought to you by toyota. stop in and test drive the new 2012 camry. it's ready. are you? don, back to you.

the teacher was trying to teach the bully a lesson. she bettered the bully, did not hurt the bully.ully learned something. >>shepard: why think randy believes that. >>judge napolitano: he makes great arguments and you do not know what he honestly believes the remark of a great trial lawyer. clearly with legal authority over the children as a schoolteacher does, you cannot use them for the purple of inflicting violence no matter the beneficial goal that might come from that violence. >>shepard: here, john any, hand janey a cup of cyanide. >>judge napolitano: the teacher is gone and will be prosecuted and should be. >>jonathan: i can't believe a teacher would think this is a good idea. >>shepard: that is or the of an absolute, isn't it? it is nuts. rain it is kind of nuts. >>shepard: you say it might better the child. >>randy: it is a creative way to better the child. but i don't think it is a crime. creative. creative. >>shepard: they would be all over you. so, what do you think happens here? >>judge napolitano: sometimes these things are resolved and the teacher resigns and loses pe

>>> the battle against bullying. just days after this school fight makes headlines, kron 4 is there as parents and teachers there on how to stop violence. >>> a teacher at the center of a child porn investigation. parents are outraged, claiming they were never told what officials knew. >>> the emotional video of the wife of a suspended frank sheriff. >> i'm going to use pictures in case he wants to take you away from me. >>> a workshop on bullying in vallejo got heated, especially when the parent of an 11-year- old girl who was beaten by an older student spoke out against the school district's harassment policy. reggie kumar told us the city's mayor had to intervene. >> reporter: during the bullying workshop, vallejo mayor confronted ladonna williams, the mother of the 6th grade girl viciously beaten last month. >> get your point across. make sure your voice gets heard. [ overlapping speakers ] >> the mayor opened it up saying kind of what the principal said. that is we can't do everything. i want to hear what you ca

police say those bullies are now being bullied themselves. she has received support from around the world. a fund set up to help send her on a dream vacation and retire has collected more than $400,000. >>> a 9 o-year-old woman is recovering after chasing a man who mugged her. the crime was caught on camera. a man attacked the woman right outside a convenience store in oakland, california. another man inside the store rushed to help her up and asked if she wanted to go to the hospital or to chase the thief. she chose to go after the thief. the two jumped in a car and found the crook. >> she was my partner. i mean, she was really into the chase with me. i mean, she was not scared at all. >> rob ravelli held the thief in a head lock until police showed up. the 90-year-old woman called him a wonderful fellow for coming to her rescue. >>> what really happened to a kindergarten teacher in orange county, virginia. that is the focus of tonight's "dateline" she was found dead just five miles from her home, an apparent victim of a hit and run. police

what is bullying?ehavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power embalance. the behavior is repeated or has the potential to be repeated over time. clemson university did a study and found one in four students say they've been bullied at some point. one in six reported they are bullied two or three times a month or more. and 35% of middle school and high school students would bully others. >> cenk: anybody who has kids is worried about it. >> the reason why this continues to happen is because the teachers and the minute straighters aren't doing anything about it. the same students that were surveyed for this study say 30% of the boys in grades three through five and 60% of the boys in grades 9 through 12 say that their teacher had done little or nothing to reduce the bullying. >> cenk: that's part of the thing that i don't understand. this is a grown woman but especially in the case of kids, why wouldn't the administrator want to protect them? it seems obvious. i don't know i

. >> bullying, we talk about it all the time. it is major problem and some high school students have come up with an idea to protect their classmates. we'll take a closer look at the antibullying act. >>> plus, passengers on board a jetblue plane provides four terrifying hours. what happened and why their emergency landing took four hours. >>> plus, if you're in the market for a new car. stay with us. which hot cars offer a cool price. those stories and more. >>> in an effort to bring atension to the state ofmark's educational system, the college board set up this display on d.c.'s national moment these are 857 empty desks. that's not 857 students in a day but in one hour according to the college board. >>> some connecticut teens are fighting back against bullies. 14 new haven teens have developed an hap to protect their friends from being bullied. the web app called back off bully or bob is aan nonmust resource. using a computer, smart fob phone or -- phone or ipad, students answer questions about where it's happening. >> we hop

bus monitor diane lovette says bullying on buses has been a major problems. she believes students should be funished for their actions with community service or suspension. >> i'm sorry to say it but it had to stand with somebody and god viewed karen to be an example. >> reporter: students also came in support of the karen. one student who had also been bullied wrote her a letter. >> it's to support her because she's had a hard time. it's a letter making her feel comfortable and trying to help her through what she experienced on that bus. >> it's like, all this is coming about, everybody is talking about it. things will be done now about the other children. >> kline is not pressing criminal charges against the boys but the investigation is continuing. mary bubala, wjz eyewitness news. >>> tonight the vacation and retirement fund for karen kline is grown to a staggering $645,000. >> the young woman in georgia battling a flesh eating disease reaches a milestone in her recovery. doctors upgraded 24-year-old amy copeland's condition from serious to good. she's no

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