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Celija Vidović (mother) Sladjana Vidović ( Croatian: Slađana Vidović, April 4, 1992 – October 2, 2008) [ 1] was a 16-year-old student at Mentor High School in Mentor, Ohio who committed suicide by hanging herself after enduring extensive bullying by several classmates over issues such as her ethnicity, accent, name, and appearance. [ 2]
Her suicide, after suffering months of bullying from school classmates, brought international attention to the problem of bullying in US schools. In March 2010, a state anti-bullying task force was set up as a result of her death. The Massachusetts legislation was signed into law on May 3, 2010. [45]
School bullying. Bullying, one form of which is depicted in this staged photograph, is detrimental to students' well-being and development. [1] School bullying, like bullying outside the school context, refers to one or more perpetrators who have greater physical strength or more social power than their victim and who repeatedly act ...
Suicide of Jamey Rodemeyer. James T. Rodemeyer (March 21, 1997 – September 18, 2011) was an American teenager from Amherst, New York who was known for his activism against homophobia and his videos on YouTube to help victims of homophobic bullying. Rodemeyer died by suicide on September 18, 2011, after having been a victim of homophobic ...
In a 2-1 decision on Monday, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the Olentangy Local School District, Ohio's fourth-largest with about 23,400 students, did not violate the free speech ...
July 31, 2024 at 3:09 PM. A panel of federal circuit court judges Monday said Olentangy Local Schools can enforce policies against bullying of transgender students by prohibiting students from ...
Bullying suicide are considered together when the cause of suicide is attributable to the victim having been bullied, either in person or via social media. [1][2][3][4][5] Writers Neil Marr and Tim Field wrote about it in their 2001 book Bullycide: Death at Playtime. [6]
Anti-bullying legislation is a legislation enacted to help reduce and eliminate bullying. This legislation may be national or sub-national and is commonly aimed at ending bullying in schools or workplaces. According to one study, state-level anti-bullying legislation in the United States was associated with reductions in bullying, depression ...