The Boston Globe reported Jan. 12 about 19 students gathered in their school library at Marlbourough Middle School to discuss and give their stories about bullying.
As seventh-grader Vahid Sharifi says, 'We all witness bullying every day.' The group gathered were peer leaders, part of a larger group of 32 boys and girls ages 11-13, being trained to teach their classmates not to tease or taunt. The messages 'Don't be a bully' and 'Be kind' are proclaimed in letters on the bulletin board in the school's lobby.
Their effort, developed by the Cambridge-based Educators for Social Responsibility, dovetails with a $3.4 million anti-bullying campaign the federal government is preparing to launch this year.