November 15.
Duterte was not commenting on the
'Bullying' of GMA news
team at Scarborough
alarming, Robredo says
(philstar.com) - November 25, 2018 - 5:33pm
MANILA, Philippines — Chinese Coast Guard
driving a GMA News team away from
Scarborough Shoal (also called Panatag Shoal and
Baho de Masinloc) and requiring them to seek
China's permission to conduct interviews there is a
cause for concern and anger, Vice President Leni
Robredo said.
"This incident is saddening because it seems to
drive home that others are claiming what we have
rights over," Robredo said in Filipino on her
weekly radio show.
"It's clear in the ruling of the Arbitral Tribunal, Ka
Ely (Saludar, her co-host), that Panatag Shoal is
inside our exclusive economic zone. There is just
some debate on whether it is a rock or an island.
But whether it is a rock or an island, it is not
owned by China because it is in our exclusive
economic zone," she also said.
Robredo was referring to an incident where GMA-
7 reporter Jun Veneracion and his crew were
barred from conducting interviews with Filipino
fishermen whose catch Chinese coastguardsmen
had taken earlier in the year in what President
Rodrigo Duterte characterized as a kind of "barter
exchange."
A clip of the incident, which happened on
November 8 and aired GMA's "Reporter's
Notebook" last Thursday, showed a member of the
Chinese Coast Guard telling Veneracion that he
needed permission to conduct interviews.
The Chinese was also heard saying it will be a
"forced matter" if the media crew did not leave the
area.
"China is claiming it and the government's
response is saddening," she also said, referring to
President Rodrigo Duterte's comment last week
against the US holding drills in the South China
Sea.
"I said China is already in possession. It's now in
their hands so why do you have to create
frictions... military activity that will prompt a
response to China," Duterte told reporters on
incident involving Veneracion and his crew when
he made that statement.
DepEd orders investigation of
bullying incident in Pampanga
Published January 29, 2016 11:28am 
The Department of Education (DepEd) ordered an
investigation into an incident of bullying in Porac,
Pampanga wherein a Grade 4 student was victimized, a
report on Unang Balita on Friday said.
DepEd Assistant Secretary Tonisito Umali said there was
negligence on the part of the school in the incident.
"The way it is being narrated to me right now, klarong-
klaro na kapabayaan ito. Napakalaking kapabayaan,"
Umali said in the exclusive report by Marisol Abduraman.
In the report, the student identified as "Chelsea" (not her
real name) was interviewed with her back to the camera
and she narrated how she was bullied in school.
"Kinukuryente po nila ako at binu-bully po na 'Pork
Chop,'" she said.
Chelsea said batteries were used in the incident.
"Maliit na baterya... Parang naga-ground po," she said.
Chelsea added that she was bullied since she was in
Grade 3 but the incidents became worse in Grade 4.
The bullying has been brought to the attention of the
teacher and school authorities.
The student's mother said her daughter had told her
before of the bullying incidents, but she advised her to
just stay away from those harrassing her.
However, her daughter changed, choosing to stay more
inside her room and would look afar. She added that her
child started having nightmares and would hurt her
sibling.
The Department of Social Welfare and Development in
Porac said the child was found to be suffering from
trauma.
A subsequent consultation with a psychiatrist showed the
child has major depressive disorder.
School advises transfer
The acting principal of the school reportedly advised the
mother to just transfer her daughter to another school.
"Gusto po nung nanay na mag-testify ang mga teachers
na na-bully 'yung bata wherein wala namang na-witness
ang mga teachers na talagang on act or on-the-spot na
nabu-bully 'yung anak," Marissa David, the principal,
said.
In 2013, President Benigno Aquino III signed Republic
Act 10627 or the Anti-Bullying Act. Under the law, all
elementary and secondary schools shall be directed to
adopt policies to address the existence of bullying in their
respective institutions, copies of which shall be made
available to the students and their parents or guardians.
The DepEd strongly urges students to bring to the
attention of teachers and parents incidents of bullying. —
KG, GMA News
Chinese coast guard
bullying off Scarborough:
Filipino news crew
dispersed
By Dan Manglinong
 -November 23, 2018 - 3:22 PM
Filipinos condemned the continued bullying of the
China Chinese Coast Guard against the Philippines
after a media outlet recorded how they were
shooed away from Scarborough Shoal despite it
being within the country’s jurisdiction.
GMA News reported on Thursday, November 22
reported that crew members of its “Reporter’s
Notebook” program were involved in a
confrontation with Chinese Coast Guard patrol
officers while shooting in the area.
A patrol guard can be heard telling journalist Jun
Veneracion that the reporters are not allowed to
record in the area without the Chinese Coast
Guard’s permission.
“If you do not leave here, we will make a forced
manner,” the patrol guard told Veneracion.
Veneracion responded by saying that the area
where they were shooting was located within the
exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.
GMA News explained that they were accompanied
by Filipino fishermen who regularly visited the
area when they were approached by three vessels
from the Chinese Coast Guard. The coast guard
members also did not leave the area until the news
crew was already “miles away.”
Some Filipinos have also questioned why the news
crew was barred from shooting even though
Scarborough Shoal was located within the
Philippine’s 200-nautical-mile exclusive economic
zone.
Miss America Cara
Mund on going public
with alleged bullying: 'I
had to stand up'
BY MICHAEL ROTHMAN VIA GMA
Aug 23, 2018, 11:06 AM ET
Current Miss America Cara Mund
was on "Good Morning America" Thursday
to discuss the bombshell letter she wrote to
fellow past winners of the competition last
week alleging she was silenced and bullied
this year by leadership. She told "GMA" she
just couldn't walk away knowing the next
Miss America could go through the same
thing.
"I wrote this letter to my sisters,"
Mund explained. "I knew I had to stand up,
not just for me but for all the volunteers and
girls."
While Mund said she expected to be
called a liar and possibly lose her crown for
going public, "there's so much more about
doing what's right" for the competition and
the women taking part in it.
She told "GMA" that she had made
several attempts to contact leadership to
express her concerns over the past year,
and that her last resort was to go to board
members earlier this summer, to no avail.
The 24-year-old champion from
North Dakota wrote the letter last week to
past winners of the competition informing
them that during her reign she had allegedly
been bullied and marginalized by
leadership, including the new chairwoman
Gretchen Carlson, according to the
Associated Press.
She also responded to a claim
Carlson made about the organization losing
$75,000 in scholarship funds after her letter
shined a negative light on Miss America last
week.
 "It's interesting, we haven't heard
about that and that sponsor hasn't been
named," Mund said, adding that two
sponsors actually reached out to her to tell
her that they were proud of her for going
public with her grievances.
Pete Davidson posts
emotional, raw note
about mental health,
online bullies
By Michael Rothman
Comedian Pete Davidson is done
being silent when it comes to online
bullying and abuse.
The "SNL" star, who was previously
engaged to Ariana Grande, wrote a
lengthy, passionate letter on Instagram
Monday, letting people into his world and
firing back at online trolls.
"I've kept my mouth shut," he
wrote. "Never mentioned any names,
never said a word about anyone or
anything. I'm trying to understand how
when something happens to a guy the
whole entire world just trashes him without
any facts or frame of reference."
Davidson did not mention Grande,
her fans, or anyone by name, but the video
for her song, "thank u, next," just came out
on Friday. The duo were engaged in June
and broke things off in October.
Davidson has previously admitted
that when he and Grande got together
earlier this year, people came out and
slammed her choice of partners.
But after the breakup, the attacks
can be seen on Davidson's social media
accounts. Last week, he posted a slew of
pics promoting a project coming to
Sundance, where several Grande fans
wrote "thank u, next" in the comments.
Some Davidson fans backed him
up and asked people not to do that when
the comedian was not even speaking
about his singer ex.
Melania Trump
says she's one of
the most bullied
people in the
world
Maeve McDermott, USA TODAY
Melania Trump says bullying is one of the
issues she's using her first lady platform to
address. And in a new clip from her interview
with ABC News' Tom Llamas, part of her first TV
interview as first lady which will air in its entirety
Friday, Trump says she's experienced her fair
share of bullying firsthand.
"I could say I'm the most bullied person in
the world," she said in the preview clip, which aired
on "Good Morning America" on Thursday. "One of
them. If you could see what people really say
about me."
Trump's experiences inspired her Be Best
campaign, dedicated to the emotional, physical
and social well-being of kids, with pillars
including managing children's health, social media
use and the consequences of the opioid addiction
epidemic.
"That's why my Be Best initiative focuses
on social media and online behavior. We need to
educate the children of social and emotional
health, so when they grow up they know how to
deal with these issues," she said.
Trump also said that despite the steady
stream of Trump aides exiting the White House,
there are still some staffers in the West Wing she
doesn't trust and that she's identified them to her
husband – though not to Llamas. 
Asked how she feels about a possible
second term, she said, "I'm enjoying Washington
and living in the White House."

ALAMIN: Proteksiyon
ng batas kontra bullying
ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jun 09 2018 08:27 PM
Sa muling pagbabalik ng mga mag-
aaral sa eskuwelahan, hindi maiaalis ang
usapin sa paglaganap ng bullying sa klase.
Ang batas kaugnay rito ang tinalakay
nitong Biyernes sa programang "Usapang de
Campanilla" ng DZMM.
Ayon sa isang abogado, nakasaad sa
Anti-Bullying Act of 2013 ang mga tuntunin
na dapat sundin ng tagapamahala ng mga
paaaralan at maging ng mga magulang upang
maiwasan ang bullying sa eskuwelahan.
"Kapag nakita na ang mga magulang
ay negligent, hindi tinuturuan ang mga anak
nila kahit na ilang beses nang pinagsabihan na
ang anak mo ay ganito, they can be held
liable," dagdag ni Castro.
Ang pamunuan ng mga pribado at
pampublikong paaralan ay obligadong bumuo
ng panuntunan na nakabase sa mga salik ng
batas para mabigyan ng impormasyon ang
mga estudyante kaugnay sa bullying.
Kailangan din ay agaran ang aksyon
ng pamunuan sa mga naitatalang insidente ng
bullying sa paaralan.  Nagbabala ang ama ng biktima na magsasampa
Maaaring matanggal o masuspende
ang lisensya ng paaralan kapag nabigo sila na
gawin ang mga ito.
Posible rin silang maharap sa kasong
child abuse kung napatunayan na hindi tama
ang paghawak nila sa mga kaso ng bullying.
GRADE 6 PUPIL NA BIKTIMA
UMANO NG BULLYING,
NABALIAN NG TADYANG
MATAPOS SUNTUKIN NG
KAKLASE
Published February 27, 2014 6:58pm 
Nagpapagaling ngayon sa ospital sa Camarines
Sur ang isang grade six pupil matapos mabalian
ng tadyang nang suntukin umano ng kaklase na
dati na raw nambu-bully sa biktima.
 Sa ulat ni Charissa Pagtalunan ng GMA-Bicol sa
GMA News TV's "Balita Pilipinas Ngayon" nitong
Huwebes, sinabing naganap ang insidente ng
pananakit sa biktima noong nagdaang Pebrero 13,
sa La Opinion Elementary School sa Nabuan,
Camarines Sur.
Kuwento ng nakaratay na biktima, nasa klase sila
ng physical education nang suntukin siya nang
malakas ng kaniyang kaklase.
Ang naturang insidente ay nasaksihan mismo ng
iba pa nilang kamag-aral.
Kaagad daw nagsagawa ng imbestigasyon ang
pamunuan ng paaralan sa nangyaring insidente at
hindi naman daw nagpabaya ang nakatalagang
guro nang mangyari ang insidente.
Gayunman, lumitaw na hindi iyon ang unang
pagkakataon na ginawa ng inirereklamong
estudyante ang pambubully sa biktima.
Problema naman ng magulang ng biktima ang
pagkukunan ng pera para sa gastusin sa
pagpapagamot sa bata.
sila ng kaso laban sa paaralan kapag hindi sila
tinulungan sa mga bayarin sa ospital.
Ayon sa punongguro ng paaralan, nag-alok sila ng
tulong sa magulang ng biktima pero tinanggihan
daw ito. Maging ang pamilya ng suspek ay nag-
alok din daw ng tulong pinansiyal pero hanggang
P10,000 lang. -- FRJ, GMA News

Angara calls on
DepEd to stop
bullying in
schools
Published June 20, 2018, 8:13 PM
By Hannah Torregoza
Senator Juan Edgardo “Sonny” Angara on
Wednesday called on the Department of
Education (DepEd) to ensure that all schools are
conducting prevention and intervention
programs to address bullying.
Angara pointed out nearly a hundred incidents
of bullying is being reported in schools daily.
“Bullying is one of the earliest forms of violence
our children encounter. We must do everything
we can to protect them from it,” said Angara,
who principally authored the Anti-Bullying Act of
2013 or Republic Act 10627 when he was a
member of the House of Representatives.
Citing data from the DepEd, Angara said a total
of 19,672 cases of bullying in public and private
elementary and high schools were recorded
during the school year 2016-2017. He said this
translates to 97 reported incidents based on a
cycle of 202 school days.
The senator said Congress pushed for the anti-
bullying law to ensure that school children are
given quality education while in a safe and
positive learning environment.
The law, he said, mandates all public and private
kindergarten, elementary and high schools in
the country to adopt policies which would
include provisions on prohibited acts,
prevention and intervention programs,
mechanisms and procedures to handle incidents
of bullying.
The law classifies bullying as any of the
following: unwanted physical contact such as
punching, pushing, kicking and slapping; any act
that causes damage to emotional well-being;
any slanderous statement or accusation like
directing foul language or profanity and name-
calling; gender-based bullying; and, cyber-
bullying.
Parents are also encouraged to join the
intervention program and be involved in bullying
prevention activities. Schools must conduct
education sessions for parents to learn, teach,
model, and reinforce positive social and
emotional skills to their children.
SCHOOL BULLYING SA
PILIPINAS, LUMALA!
written by DWIZ 882 September 28, 2015
Ibinunyag kamakailan ni Cebu
Representative Gerald Anthony Gullas na
mas lumalala ang kaso ng bullying sa
paaralan.
Batay sa kanyang datos, hindi raw
bababa sa 31 insidente ng school bullying
ang naiuulat araw-araw.
Kung susumahin ito, aabot na sa
higit kumulang anim na libong (6,363)
kaso ng bullying ang naitatala sa
pampubliko at pribadong paaralan noong
2014, ibig sabihin tumaas ng 21 porsyento
kung ikukumpara ito sa higit kumulang
limang libong (5,326) noong 2013.
At batay sa analysis ni Rep. Gullas
ang pagtaas ng kaso o insidente ay dahil
sa hindi pa rin gaano naipapatupad ang
Child Protection Committee sa bawat
paaralan.
Kung kaya’t dahil walang
malalapitan ang mga biktima, dahil sa
mga kadahilanan tulad ng takot na baka
sila ay balikan o bweltahan kung sila ay
magsusumbong.
Isa rin sa dahilan, ay ang hindi
sapat ang training o kaalaman ng mga
school officials kung papaano nila i-
handle ang mga ganitong mga insidente
tulad ng bullying na isang kaso ng child
abuse.
Tulad ko, bilang isang magulang,
nagkaroon ng kaso ng school bullying ang
paaralan na pinapasukan ng aking anak.
Bagamat hindi biktima rito ang aking
anak, ang nakababahala lamang ay sa
klase nila nangyari ang bullying.
Mas matindi na ang paraan ng
bullying ng mga kabataan ngayon, ito ay
hindi dinadaan sa physical na pananakit,
kundi ito ay sa paraan ng liham na para
sa akin ang siyang pinaka-masakit
maranasan ng isang estyudante.
Bullying victims, parents not
helpless under PH laws
By Ma. Cristina Arayata
It's school opening time again, and the
issue of bullying is cropping up anew. Bullied
students--and their parents as well--need not be
helpless.
Under Philippine laws, bullies can face
the consequences of their actions, even charged
criminally.  "Saturday Night Live" performer Pete
"The targets or students and their
parents are protected, and can avail of legal
remedies provided under the law," lawyer
Amado Aquino III told the Philippine News
Agency (PNA).
Aquino pointed to Republic Act No.
10627, or the Act Requiring All Elementary and
Secondary Schools to Adopt Policies to Prevent
and Address the Acts of Bullying in their
Institutions. 
RA 10627 enables students to
anonymously report bullying. Although
disciplinary administrative action would not be
taken based on an anonymous report alone,
bullies are still subject to punishment once the
report is established as true.
The law requires the school principal or any
authorized representative to report to the law
enforcement agencies if he or she believes the
bullying is tantamount to a crime and, thus,
criminal charges may be pursued under the
Revised Penal Code.
The law says students, parents, or any
member of the school administration may report
bullying instances or act of retaliation that they
have witnessed. Then school principal will either
notify the police, take disciplinary administrative
action, notify the parents or guardians of the
bully, or notify the parents or guardians of the
victim regarding the action taken to prevent any
further acts of bullying.
For non-compliance of RA 1067, the
Secretary of the Department of Education shall
prescribe the appropriate administrative
sanctions on school administrators. Erring
private schools shall likewise suffer the penalty
of suspension of their permits to operate.
Pete Davidson gets
candid about
mental health and
bullying
By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN
Davidson isn't laughing about the public
harassment he's faced during and after his
relationship with singer Ariana Grande.
On Monday, the comedian took to
Instagam to address bullying he's endured for
the last nine months, roughly the length of his
relationship with former fianceé Grande,
which ended in October.
"I'm trying to understand how when
something happens to a guy the whole entire
world just trashes him without any facts or frame
of reference," Davidson wrote.
 The bullying, he said, has occurred both
online and in public.
"I've spoken about BPD and being
suicidal publicly only in the hopes that it will help
bring awareness and help kids like myself who
don't want to be on this earth," he wrote. "I just
want you guys to know. No matter how hard the
internet or anyone tries to make me kill myself. I
won't. I'm upset I even have to say this."
Davidson has been open about his
mental health struggles in the past, including
being diagnosed with borderline personality
disorder.
His whirlwind romance-turned-
engagement with Grande powered the
celebrity gossip machine through the summer.
They were engaged in June.
Davidson has since addressed their
breakup on "SNL." Grande, too, talked about
their courtship in a song called "Thank U,
Next."
British boxer sends
message of support
to bullied Syrian
refugee
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
When boxer Fes Batista saw the
video of a teenage Syrian refugee being
taunted and pushed to the ground at a
school in northern England as other
students looked on, it brought back a flood
of painful memories.
The 28-year-old, whose real name is
Mohammed Faisal but is known by his
nickname, knows only too well the impact
bullying can have. He said he came "within
millimeters" of taking his own life after being
taunted over his Asian background while at
college.
The fact that the Syrian boy,
identified by his family's lawyer only as
Jamal, was bullied in Batista's own West
Yorkshire hometown of Huddersfield made
the video more personal to him. It also
impelled Batista to offer any help he could.
Batista, who is trained and
managed by American boxing legend
Roy Jones Jr., splits his time between
Huddersfield, a multicultural town
northeast of Manchester, and
Pensacola, Florida. He aspires to a
world championship title and is living life
to the fullest.
But things could have been very
different. He never suffered racist abuse
growing up in Huddersfield, he said, but
when he went to university in another,
less diverse town in northern England his
experience of racially motivated bullying
was horrific.
When students were
bullied because of dirty
clothes, a principal
installed a free
laundromat at school
By Christopher Dawson, CNN
The teenage girl screamed and fought with the
school security officer when he tried to check her
bag.
"The police later told me she had dirty clothes in
her bag because she was homeless and didn't
want anyone to know," Akbar Cook, the principal of
West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey,
told CNN. "She was fighting for her pride."
Cook said many students at West Side faced
humiliation because they didn't have anything
clean to wear.
So when school starts September 4, there will be a
new facility in the building: a free laundromat.
Kids who could not afford to wash their clothes
faced intense teasing when they showed up in dirty
outfits. Classmates sometimes snapped photos
and tagged the students on social media.
"I've seen a few kids in the back of the class talk
about one of the people in front of the class and
how they smelled and how their clothes looked
dirty," student Nasirr Cameron told CNN affiliate
WCBS.
Cook heard the students talking, too. He saw the
posts and quickly suspected that the bullying was a
top reason why 85% of his students chronically
missed school.
"These are kids, good kids who want to learn, that
are missing three to five days a month because
they were being bullied because they were dirty,"
Cook explained to CNN. "I even changed the
school uniform to darker colors so they could go
more days without cleaning them, but even with
that, students were struggling to have them look
clean enough to attend."
So two years ago, the principal applied for a grant
from a foundation associated with one of Newark's
main utility companies, PSE&G. He received
$20,000 to turn an old football locker room into a
school laundromat.
Mom said
bullying caused
6-year-old boy 2
concussions at
school
September 26, 2018 at 6:38 AM EST -
Updated September 26 at 7:16 AM
NELSONVILLE, OH (WSYX/CNN) –
A mother is so frustrated by bullying
at her disabled son’s school, she’s
pulling him out.
She says he has suffered a broken
bone and two concussions, and he's
only six years old.
Jennifer Britton rushed little Noah to
the ER twice in the past week. The 6-
year-old got a severe concussion at
school, the second within a year.
Britton said Noah has had at least
eight incidents at school since
September 2017. In one of them,
Noah ended up with a broken elbow.
"The worst part is my child is getting
hurt at a place that he should be safe
at," Britton said.
The boy, who has a rare lung
disorder and is on the autism
spectrum, weighs just 30 pounds.
Sister Chloe is a fierce advocate for
Noah. Her recent Facebook post
about Noah is drawing interest from
others who have experienced
bullying.
Sparks Middle
School shooting
followed anti-
bullying video’s
theme: student
By NINA GOLGOWSKI
An anti-bullying video allegedly shown to the
12-year-old shooter at Sparks Middle School is
being suggested as the inspiration behind his
deadly shooting spree.
Amaya Newton, an eighth grader at the Nevada
school, says the boy was often mistreated by
fellow students and that the video showing a
bullied girl retaliating with a gun in the days
before may have "gotten into his head."
"She brought a gun on the bus to scare them and
threatened to kill them," Amaya
told MyNews4 of the video allegedly shown at
school. "It was an anti-bullying movie but it
could have gotten into his head about the girl
scaring the bullies with the gun."
Amaya, who previously described the yet-to-be
identified shooter to CNN as "a really nice kid"
who "would make you smile when you were
having a bad day," said he was often mistreated.
She described seeing other students "tripping
him in the hallways, bugging him for money so
they would give it to him."
At least one witness to Monday's horrific attack,
14-year-old Michelle Hernandez, also says the
shooter ran through the halls shouting, "Why are
you people making fun of me? Why are you
laughing at me?'" as she told RGJ.com
Amaya claims the anti-bullying video was
shown to students on Oct. 11th.
That would be the last school day before the
students were given a week off for fall break,
before returning to school on Monday.
At 7:15 a.m., just before classes were to begin,
police say the boy pulled out a Ruger 9mm and
shot his first student, drawing the attention of
45-year-old math teacher, Michael Landsberry.