Iqaluit school teaches how not to bully
CBC News
September 27, 2006
Students arriving for the first day of classes at Inuksuk High School in Iqaluit yesterday were introduced to a new program about bullying.
The program — instituted in schools in southern Canada — helps students solve conflicts peacefully without hurting each other physically or emotionally.
High school teacher Barbara Young says students are exposed to all kinds of conflict.
"There's the social bullying that happens, one student ostracizes another through their peers. Sometimes the quick response, you know, somebody might strike out and hit somebody ... a lot of it is not very serious ... some of it is much more serious."
Young says the goal is to intervene before the problem gets out of hand.
The school's guidance counselor, Sheila Levy, says she likes the new approach and hopes it will help students deal with conflict long after they leave school.
"Students will have to deal with their anger and their stress throughout their lives," she says. "If they can find appropriate methods to deal with it now, hopefully that will help them deal with anger and stress when they get older, when they're in relationships, or marriages, or in the workplace."
Levy says her job is help young people feel good about themselves. She says that can't happen when is a student is being bullied.
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