Saturday, April 4, 2009

Gossip Girl and Boy get lesson in empathy

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/education/05empathy.html?em

This is such a great idea to get kids to stop bullying and being nice to each other. Middle school is probably the most common grade to be bullied or experience mean behavior from another student. The principal and school is really trying hard to make the school more friendly and make their students more aware of bullying at their school. Even little things like showing off who went to someone's party can be offensive to someone if they weren't invited. The school is just taking it one step farther during the grades right before high school to not bring bullying to the rest of the students school life. I think this is just such a great idea. 

The title "Gossip Girl and Boy Get lesson in Empathy" pulled me in because I automatically thought of a TV show. Then when I started reading the article, the journalist started with one semi-short sentence that really caught my attention even more and kept me wanting to read more. Sometimes less words affect someone better than a lot of words. It leaves people wondering and pulls them into the article to continue reading what the journalist is actually saying. I also think there was a good balance of examples of what the school is doing to prevent bullying, and other examples of schools that are trying to do the same thing. It was an easy read.
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Margaret said...

I read that article too! I have to admit I only opened it up because I thought it was about gossip girl :). But it actually turned out to be really interesting. I was suprised though because some of the events that they talked about like wearing a sweatshirt from someone's bar mitzvah has happened at our school, and nobody has really taken action like this school has. I feel like if our middle school did this, then there would be less behavioral problems now.

April 5, 2009 at 1:33 PM

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