She said Audrie had been dealing with bullying problems at school prior to the assault, and the family had asked the principal for help last spring.

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Faris teamed up with CNN's "AC360" in 2011 to study bullying at a high school in Long Island, New York.

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There's increasing concern about peers bullying children with ASD at school and in the community.

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She says the UK children reported encountering bullying on a regular basis at school, perhaps because of the constant focus on managing their behaviour.

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Mr Romiti is a formidable Italian industrialist of the old school, skilled at bullying the workers and the government for the greater good of Fiat, but hardly the sort of figure to impress international shareholders outside the salotto buono of Milan.

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Reasons for self-harming are complex and personal and can be linked to bullying, abuse, or problems at home or school.

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We can work harder at creating emotionally safe schools where bullying and rejection are antithetical to school spirit.

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But whatever we can do to reduce bullying and create climates of safety in class, on the way to and from school, at recesses, lunchrooms, we have to do that.

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Jones was bullied at his secondary school in Aberystwyth, but when listeners called his Sunday Surgery programme for advice on bullying, he felt the answers "turn the other cheek" and "walk away" would not have helped him.

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