Student health and wellbeing
Research in Norway and Britain has revealed that bullying is more common than we care to admit. Doing something about it is recommended, and how to successfully intervene is spelt out.
If you can't change the child perhaps you can change the school. Alternative schools for truants and offenders, called in New Zealand 'Activity Centres', are growing. Do they work? A case study.
Teachers dread the 'out-of-control', socially maladjusted, delinquent children who wind up in their classes. Identifying them is easy; getting changes is more difficult; but not impossible.
There have been calls to have this TV programme banned. How do children 'see' it? Is it doing them harm?
