{"id":4963,"date":"2011-10-19T05:18:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T09:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2011-10-24T08:57:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-24T12:57:30","slug":"morning-read-confronting-bullies-in-malone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/10\/19\/morning-read-confronting-bullies-in-malone\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Confronting bullies in Malone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School kids, teachers and other grown-ups formed a mile-long vigil yesterday in Malone to &#8220;take a dramatic stance against bullying,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/pressrepublican.com\/0100_news\/x1621540933\/Human-chain-comforts-aching-hearts\">according to the Plattsburgh Press-Republican<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Denise Raymo reports, the vigil had a particular power because of shocking violence that struck the community this spring, even as the gathering was being organized.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a counselor in the [school] district, Karen Bourdon-Clark brought the  community Rachel&#8217;s Challenge, a program founded in honor of Rachel  Scott, the first student killed in the 1999 Columbine massacre in  Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Bourdon-Clark wanted to raise awareness about the impact  of bullying and instill a spirit of kindness and friendship toward one  another not only in the school district but in the greater Malone  community.<\/p>\n<p>But Tuesday&#8217;s celebration went on without her.<\/p>\n<p>She was killed in her home on May 2, and her 14-year-old son, Dilan, is facing charges of second-degree murder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bullying is a complicated problem and the response to it has been a major issue in school districts across the North Country.\u00a0\u00a0 What do you think?\u00a0 Are vigils like this a sign of progress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School kids, teachers and other grown-ups formed a mile-long vigil yesterday in Malone to &#8220;take [&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":[6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963"}],"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=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4964,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions\/4964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}