The mom of a high school football player says his teammates put peanuts inside his locker after learning he has a severe allergy. The school says it happened, but it wasn’t bullying; the mom says she wants more accountability. Carter Mannon, 16, was diagnosed with a peanut allergy as a baby, after he reached inside […]
A Texas mother is facing charges after a drink she allegedly gave to her son to prevent bullying was consumed by a student at a school in San Antonio, sending the child to the hospital, police say. The Bexar County Sheriff’s Office says it responded to Legacy Traditional School – Alamo Ranch on Tuesday upon […]
The Metropolitan Police have said arrangements have started to return a lost sim card and mobile phone that belonged a schoolgirl who killed herself after she was bullied. Mia Janin, a 14-year-old Year 10 pupil at Jewish Free School (JFS) in Kenton, north-west London, died on March 12th 2021. The Met said after the investigation […]
An Arizona woman is charged with attempted first-degree murder after police say she ran over a child she believed was bullying her kids, news outlets reported. The woman, 30, drove to WestGreen Park in Peoria around 4 p.m. on Feb. 27, police said, according to KTVK. She walked over to a group of kids, and […]
Federal authorities have announced an investigation into allegations of bullying involving Nex Benedict, the non-binary teen who died last month after a fight with classmates in a women’s bathroom at their high school in Oklahoma. Related: New video sheds light on fight that took place before non-binary student died The US Department of Education said […]
“This could have killed him,” says mom Shawna Mannon, who’s speaking out about how her son’s Texas school district handled the incident Courtesy Shawna Mannon Shawna Mannon with son Carter. Carter Mannon was just 9 months old when his family discovered he had a nut allergy. “We had him sitting on the counter, and my […]
OWASSO, Okla. — At least 40 students at Owasso High School walked out Monday to protest what they describe as a pervasive culture of bullying with little accountability, which they believe led to a student’s death at their school. Nex Benedict, 16, died Feb. 8, a day after a fight in a bathroom on the […]
EAST LANSING — The legal bills for an investigation into whether bullying is an issue among the eight people elected by the state’s voters to run Michigan State University have exceeded half a million dollars, and are rising. Three law firms are involved in the inquiry that began last fall into whether board Chairperson Rema […]
When Aleisha Goodwin, an estate coordinator at the Clark County Public Administrator’s Office, reached out to Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German in March 2022 to describe the problems she and her co-workers said they were experiencing with their boss, she said they were at their breaking point. “We were desperate,” Goodwin told “48 […]
Ukraine’s Education Ombudsman, Serhiy Horbachov, is advocating for significant reforms that would allow authorities to take action against teachers involved in bullying, mobbing, or collaboration with Russia, according to his post on Facebook on Feb. 13. Read also: Russian hackers attacked Ukraine’s Education Ministry website Horbachov suggests that teachers could face demotion or loss of […]
A 14-year-old schoolgirl who took her own life sent a voice message the night beforehand saying she was “preparing” to be bullied. Mia Janin, a Year 10 pupil at the Jewish Free School (JFS) in Kenton, north-west London, was found dead at her family home in Barnet on March 12 2021. Tony Murphy, area coroner […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Many students at a historically Black college in Missouri returned from Christmas break this week dressed in black, mourning the suicide of a beloved administrator who had alleged bullying and racism by the school’s white president. Known for keeping her office door open and greeting everyone at Lincoln University with […]