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The tenth anniversary of the Columbine High School tragedy offers a stark reminder to re-examine the issue of bullying in our schools.  Colleen Lippens, a Health Educator with Jewish Community Services, presents prevention education programs for staff, faculty, students, and parents in local schools.  No school is immune from the impact of bullying.  Here are Colleen’s comments on the issue. It’s all too easy to dismiss bullying as a rite of passage or “normal” kid behavior.  However, the statistics are hard to ignore.  The National Youth Violence Prevention Resource Center reports that almost 30% of youth in the United States admit either to having been a victim of a bully or to having engaged in bullying behavior.  Bullying can be physical, verbal, or relational (attempting to damage a child’s relationships with others by gossip, rumors, teasing and/or exclusion).  Many… read more