{"id":15549,"date":"2010-11-21T10:08:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15549"},"modified":"2010-11-21T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T16:11:32","slug":"bullying-is-bullying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=15549","title":{"rendered":"Bullying is Bullying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to ask&#8230;why?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/local\/north\/109350934.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUeDyic:E7PNDh_oaE3miUsZ\">The Minnesota School Board Association is advising school districts<\/a> across the state to expand their harassment and violence policy to  specify several more groups, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and  transgender (GLBT) students.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What does it matter for what a student is being &#8220;bullied?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t they add even more groups then?<\/p>\n<p>Short. Tall. Fat. Skinny. Bespectacled.<\/p>\n<p>I was teased for being a &#8220;carrot top&#8221; in elementary school. Shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;Individuals with Red or Auburn Hair&#8221; be added in case teasing escalates to bullying?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just have to ask&#8230;why? The Minnesota School Board Association is advising school districts across the state to expand their harassment and violence policy to specify several more groups, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) students. What does it matter for what a student is being &#8220;bullied?&#8221; Shouldn&#8217;t they add even more groups then? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15549"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15567,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15549\/revisions\/15567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}