Under a new state law in New Jersey, lunch-line bullies in the East Hanover schools can be reported to the police by their classmates this fall through anonymous tips to the Crimestoppers hot line.
Philip W. Nicastro, vice president of Strauss Esmay Associates, a firm that provides training programs for school districts, at an antibullying presentation.
In Elizabeth, children, including kindergartners, will spend six class periods learning, among other things, the difference between telling and tattling.
And at North Hunterdon High School, students will be told that there is no such thing as an innocent bystander when it comes to bullying: if they see it, they have a responsibility to try to stop it.
But while many parents and educators welcome the efforts to curb bullying both on campus and online, some superintendents and school board members across New Jersey say the new law, which takes effect Sept. 1, reaches much too far, and complain that they have been given no additional resources to meet its mandates.
The law, known as the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, is considered the toughest legislation against bullying in the nation. Propelled by public outcry over the suicide of a Rutgers University freshman, Tyler Clementi, nearly a year ago, it demands that all public schools adopt comprehensive antibullying policies (there are 18 pages of “required components”), increase staff training and adhere to tight deadlines for reporting episodes
If a lunchline bully is what I think it is, then this is just absolute garbage. A lunch line bully is someone who just cuts everyone and goes straight to the trays and silverware right? Since when is it illegal for the popular kids and jocks to cut all the nerds and underclassmen? I'm telling you right now if Kentucky adopted this shit when I was in high school I would have been a three strike offender after the first week of school and probably sentenced to life in jail. When that lunch bell rang there was a less than zero percent chance that the RBG was willing to wait in line for 15 minutes behind the chess club for my Fiesta Stix. Walked straight in there bullying people out of my way til I found a group of my friends at the front and scored me a plate full of turkey tetrazini like ya read about.
P.S. Here are the 5 best high school lunch foods, and there is no debate over this:
1. Fiesta Stix - Stuff some cheese in there, little hot sauce, unbeatable.
2. Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce - garlic stix dipped in that sauce was the shit.
3. Grilled Cheese and Vegetable soup - Might be controversial here, but those grilled cheeses slathered in butter and dipped into the vegetable soup were fucking fire, you know and I know it.
4. Turket Tettrazini - I have no clue what it is or what was in it, but that one day a month when it was served always got an asterisk on my calendar.
5. Roast Beef w/ mashed potatoes - Pretty much speaks for itself
And any of you who say pizza cracks the top 5 are absolutely insane, high school lunch pizza was like eating cardboard with red finger paint and mozzarella on top of it.
But while many parents and educators welcome the efforts to curb bullying both on campus and online, some superintendents and school board members across New Jersey say the new law, which takes effect Sept. 1, reaches much too far, and complain that they have been given no additional resources to meet its mandates.
The law, known as the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights, is considered the toughest legislation against bullying in the nation. Propelled by public outcry over the suicide of a Rutgers University freshman, Tyler Clementi, nearly a year ago, it demands that all public schools adopt comprehensive antibullying policies (there are 18 pages of “required components”), increase staff training and adhere to tight deadlines for reporting episodes
If a lunchline bully is what I think it is, then this is just absolute garbage. A lunch line bully is someone who just cuts everyone and goes straight to the trays and silverware right? Since when is it illegal for the popular kids and jocks to cut all the nerds and underclassmen? I'm telling you right now if Kentucky adopted this shit when I was in high school I would have been a three strike offender after the first week of school and probably sentenced to life in jail. When that lunch bell rang there was a less than zero percent chance that the RBG was willing to wait in line for 15 minutes behind the chess club for my Fiesta Stix. Walked straight in there bullying people out of my way til I found a group of my friends at the front and scored me a plate full of turkey tetrazini like ya read about.
P.S. Here are the 5 best high school lunch foods, and there is no debate over this:
1. Fiesta Stix - Stuff some cheese in there, little hot sauce, unbeatable.
2. Spaghetti w/ Meat Sauce - garlic stix dipped in that sauce was the shit.
3. Grilled Cheese and Vegetable soup - Might be controversial here, but those grilled cheeses slathered in butter and dipped into the vegetable soup were fucking fire, you know and I know it.
4. Turket Tettrazini - I have no clue what it is or what was in it, but that one day a month when it was served always got an asterisk on my calendar.
5. Roast Beef w/ mashed potatoes - Pretty much speaks for itself
And any of you who say pizza cracks the top 5 are absolutely insane, high school lunch pizza was like eating cardboard with red finger paint and mozzarella on top of it.
That must have sucked to be poor, at St. X we had Thai Chicken, Burger Bar (Daily), and all kinds of dope shit.
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