By Lisa Goudy
Bullying continues to be a serious issue.
Earlier this week, I sat in on a presentation to grades 4 to 8 students at William Grayson School to cover a story for the
paper. Const. Landon Giraudier of the Moose Jaw Police Service and Moose Jaw Warriors team members Sam Fioretti, forward,
and Justin Paulic, goalie, made the presentation.
Presentations like these are important to take
place in schools. We learn about bullying all the time. We know it
continues
to be a problem in its many forms such as physical, verbal and
cyber. We know we need to actively work toward fixing it. We
know we have made progress, but not enough.
Yet some of the statistics provided by
Giraudier, Fioretti and Paulic still surprised me. Every seven minutes a
child is bullied
on the playground. Every 25 minutes a child is bullied in the
classroom. Every day, thousands of kids don’t go to school because
of the fear of being bullied.
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