{"id":3984,"date":"2011-03-28T05:54:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T09:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2011-03-28T11:42:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:42:31","slug":"morning-read-bullies-and-their-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/03\/28\/morning-read-bullies-and-their-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Bullies and their victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post Star has been publishing a powerful series of stories and essays about bullying in public schools.<\/p>\n<p>In an editorial over the weekend, the newspaper argued for more awareness and enforcement, not more laws, to counter the problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Bullying is] not a rite of passage. It is not something kids have to experience in order to cope as adults. No one needs to learn cruelty first-hand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps the<a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/news\/local\/article_4ea93d24-58b7-11e0-9d77-001cc4c002e0.html\"> most heartbreaking story so far <\/a>is an account shared by Billie Borden, who graduated from Whitehall Central School in 2005, after years of persecution.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don\u2019t think anybody takes you aside when you\u2019re a kid and says, \u2018Hey, there\u2019s a chance that you might be selected as one from your peers to not fit in, and that\u2019s just going to be who you are,\u2019&#8221; she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s powerful journalism, drawing together a big discussion of an issue that continues to plague many North Country schools.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/poststar.com\/highlights\/bullied\/\">&#8220;Bullied&#8221; topic page<\/a> on the Post-Star&#8217;s website, including a focus today on the impact of bullying on gay teens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Glens Falls Post Star has been publishing a powerful series of stories and essays [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5657,5610],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3985,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3984\/revisions\/3985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}