Comments on: Stop Bullying – Wear Pink

By: Shirley Nedry

Shirley Nedry — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:50:33 +0000

The URL above is for our main school website.

My 6th grade Skills for Adolescence students LOVE your poems. They cut to the heart of the bullying issue. The rhythm and diction are so appropriate for these 12 year old students.

We choral read and solo read and discuss these poems in my class.

Some of my students would love to record these and put them on a class blog about bullying, with attribution to you as the author.

They would do a great job and this would make the poems mean even more to them.

By: Keith MacKenzie

Keith MacKenzie — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:30:18 +0000

This isn’t a poem, but a good story on Anti-Bullying Day in British Columbia, and how our province lags behind the rest in countering this problem. http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/News/local/2009/02/25/8520566-sun.html

Anything and everything will help in making our society a better one. And this is one way to do it.

Cheers
Keith

By: andrea wilson

andrea wilson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:06:40 +0000

Hey Josephine!
I am very happy that you feel secure with the knowledge that you have a Mom who will be there for you when you need it. You are very fortunate. When you or someone you know is being bullied it is not easy to stand up and speak out. It is very admirable but you need to know that sometimes you can get caught in the cross-fire. That is why it is always advisable to enlist the help of a trusted adult. I am glad you have your Mom. I too would go to bat for my kids.

By: josephine

josephine — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:59:36 +0000

if u stand up u will show people that your not a chicken and i no that its hard but it works if u need a friend u can alwas ask ur mom or dad there the best friend in the world my mom is

By: josephine

josephine — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:54:17 +0000

we show people we can stand up and they will stop being bullys’

By: andrea wilson

andrea wilson — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:39:23 +0000

I have decided to share my anti-bullying poems. bullypoems.wordpress.com Please keep in mind that they are still considered in progress. Any suggestions would be very welcome. andrea

By: andrea

andrea — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:55:32 +0000

Thanks Graham.

I had originally thought (naively) that I might contribute my poems and the attached pedagogical tools to our children’s schools. I forwarded them to the guidance counsellor and never received a response. I asked the middle school if someone would test-drive one or two in the classroom, but had no takers there either. This reception did not encourage me to pursue the project any further…in fact, it made me feel quite foolish.

I therefore really appreciate the positive feed-back.

andrea

By: graham watt

graham watt — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:12:48 +0000

Andrea, it’s a crime to hide your talent!! Please let us hear more.
Graham

By: Andrea

Andrea — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:12:10 +0000

Thank you for your encouraging responses, Joan and Al. These poems and many others have just sat in my computer files for years now. Writing them was cathartic, but perhaps they could assist others too. Any ideas as to what best to do with them? I am inclined to create a web-site and just make them available for educators and parents to use or make suggestions, as they see fit. I’d appreciate some input.
andrea

By: Joan Vinall-Cox

Joan Vinall-Cox — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:48:36 +0000

I LOVE the poems. They remind me of some of R.D.Laing’s collections of what I think of as “psychological patterns poetry”. I’ve seen both those patterns far too many times.