Forney ISD Presents Parent Workshop on Bullying

Press Release by Larry Coker, Director of Communications, FISD

The Forney Independent School District recently held a parent workshop on bullying at Johnson Elementary School and a number of parents with children enrolled in schools across the district attended the training. In addition, all Forney ISD elementary counselors were on hand to answer questions from individuals [...]

Bullying in FISD – The Victims

As I started research for this series of articles, I was struck by many things, the first being the stereotype most people assign to the victims of bullying in general.  The typical assumption is that these children must be weaklings and loners with some identifiable flaw whether it be physical, intellectual or social.  It is easy to [...]

Bullying in FISD – The Problem

“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures
is not to hate them,
but to be indifferent to them:
that’s the essence of inhumanity.”
-George Bernard Shaw

The Center for Disease Control reports that over 5.7 million teens in the United States, or more than 30% are estimated to be involved in bullying as bully, victim, or both. Even the CDC [...]