Anderson Cooper
Every night this week, Anderson Cooper 360 will focus on the root causes of bullying and what can be done to end it as part of a “special multi-platform effort”and in partnership with Facebook, CNN, The Cartoon Network and Time Inc. The week winds up Friday, Oct. 14, with a rebroadcast of “Bullying: It Stops Here,” a special town hall meeting, that first aired Sunday night, Oct. 9.
AC 360 commissioned a special study conducted last spring in which more than 700 students at The Wheatley School, a nationally top-ranked high school on Long Island, were given a 28-question survery on “aggressive behavior,” aka bullying, four separate times throughout the semester. And according to the sociologist who partnered with AC 360 to conduct the survey, the stereotype of “the schoolyard bully preying on the weak doesn’t reflect reality in schools.”
Instead, sociologist Robert Faris said, students are involved in a kind of “social combat” as they try to fight their way to the top of the school’s social hierarchy. The video below gives you a preview of the program talking about the survey’s findings.
AC 360 explores the findings of this study in depth each night at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. CST on CNN.
Sometimes the teachers join in the bullying……that is what my experience was.
Thank you for addressing this entire situation !
I give you all the credit in the world, for stepping up to the plate with the fight on bullying.As a nation people need to jump onto” your bandwagon”, rather than continue to hide behind closed doors as if nothing is wrong, before any one else is hurt or subjected with bullying!!!!. AS a suggestion maybe people could start by thinking what if that was my mother, Father, or sibling before acting out bullying onto another person or animal.