Cyberbullying, it's not a game! It's your Life!!!

Bully Free: It Starts With Me," NEA's Campaign Against Bullying, has resources and information to put an end to bullying at your school.

It’s not the kind of letter you would think the secretary of education would get, but Arne Duncan said he gets them all the time.

“I’m being bullied at school and on the bus, and I’m afraid of telling somebody because they might hear about it and do something bad to me,” a girl from Texas wrote in a letter to the Obama administration’s top education official.

“I don’t really like telling on somebody, but I’ve told the principal and [he] didn’t do anything about it. I’ve considered suicide but that won’t help anything; that will only hurt my family. Please give me advice about what to do.”

Such things are happening in schools across the country, Duncan said during a Sept. 21 summit on bullying prevention.

Some children are good at hiding their feelings and the first you may know of the problem is when your child suddenly doesn't want to go to school, or says they are ill when PE lessons are on the agenda.

A Minnesota mother has been banned from her child's school and bus stop for defending her son against bullies, WCCO-TV reports.

A national campaign to combat bullying has been launched on the back of the beating of a Muslim Sydney schoolboy last week.

Internet Safety Button - This page is an initiative from Reader's Digest Magazine - Description: Every day children are abused, groomed and bullied on internet.

Days after she vowed to make bullying illegal in remembrance of 14-year-old Jamey Rodemeyer, who killed himself after classmates bullied him for his sexuality, Lady Gaga paid to go to a $35,800 per-couple fundraiser where President Obama would beholding a Q&A, ABC News reported.

The event took place at the home of Facebook's Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and David Goldberg in Atherton, Calif.

During the Q&A, Gaga first thanked the president for what he has accomplished and for supporting this year's second annual Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summit, which took place last week. She then read from a letter about the suicide of her fan who had endured bullying.

She made a plea to everyone, including the president, to do whatever they could to stop bullying. In response, Obama thanked her and highlighted his administration's anti-bullying campaign. ...

SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH NETWORK

The Drama! Teen Conflict, Gossip, and Bullying in Networked Publics

While teenage conflict is nothing new, today’s gossip, jokes, and arguments often play out through social media like Formspring, Twitter, and Facebook.

Although adults often refer to these practices with the language of “bullying,” teens are more likely to refer to the resultant skirmishes and their digital traces as “drama.” Drama is a performative set of actions distinct from bullying, gossip, and relational aggression, incorporating elements of them but also operating quite distinctly.

Anti-bullying song - "STOP THAT!" (Lynn/Arms)

STOP THAT! Available for licensing to schools and non-profits. www.annielynn.net This song is also endorsed by and licensed to A Better Philadelphia, Inc. (w...

Klein's bill says "harassing a child using electronic communication" would fall under 3rd Degree Stalking, punishable with up to a year in prison. If that harassment caused suicide, the bully could face 2nd Degree Manslaughter charges and up to 15 years in prison.

"Do something about your children, control your children," Klein said at the news conference outside the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. "Otherwise they're going to be punished under a very tough New York State statute."

Because bullies exist beyond New York State, others think federal legislation is needed.

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The United States Commission on Civil Rights announces that it has released its report, Peer-to-Peer Violence and Bullying, Examining the Federal Response, pursuant to Public Law 103-419.

WASHINGTON — Catherine Devine had her first brush with an online bully in seventh grade, before she'd even ventured onto the Internet.

Bullies have moved from the schoolyard to mobile phones, email, websites and chat rooms. They bully night and day. Their victims are innocent children and teenagers. What is happening and what you can do.

"They Won't Leave Me Alone!"

At any time 14.6 million children under age 17 are online worldwide. Pedophiles are well aware of this fact and use the Internet to identify, lure and abuse children. Reader’s Digest has started a European campaign to protect children online.

Tag und Nacht werden Tausende europäische Kinder und Jugendliche zu Opfern von Cybermobbing. Sie werden drangsaliert, gedemütigt und sogar bedroht - per Handy, E-Mail, in Chatrooms und sozialen Netzwerken.

Cyberbullying:

Gaga live at the iHeartRadio music festival at the MGM Garden Arena in Las Vegas on 9/24/11. She performed a one-hour set included performances of her hits such as "Bad Romance," "Judas" and "Yoü And I" as well as a surprise appearance by Sting, who joined Gaga on stage to sing "Stand by Me" and "King of Pain."

Among the highlights of the show was Lady Gaga's acoustic rendition of "Hair," which she dedicated to her fan Jamey who committed suicide last week on 9/18/11

sorry for some parts of this performances the audio kept going out during the iHeartRadio live stream.

Adults need to pay attention to the language of youth if they want antibullying interventions to succeed.