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Stone Mountain boarding school for boys is a long-term residential school in an outdoors environment. Stone Mountain is a boarding school that specializes in pre-adolescent and teen boys with attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, emotional issues, learning differences or disabilities, or behavioral problems. The rustic wilderness environment in North Carolina serves as an excellent teaching tool for boys with ADHD / ADD through direct experience. Specialty boarding schools offer boys with ADD a safe, structured environment in which they can thrive and succeed both academically and socially.
Mental Bullying of Teenagers Linked to Boys Carrying Guns
Sticks and stones break your bones, but names will always hurt you too.
A new study by Dr. Sara Goldstein at Montclair State University and Michigan State University found that teenagers who are the victims of psychological bullying such as name-calling and gossip are unhappy with their schools and perceive them as unsafe. Boys who are victims of such “relational aggression” are more likely to carry guns to school.
Dr. Goldstein and her colleagues interviewed 1335 adolescents ages 11 to 19 years from a public school district in Detroit, MI. Questions included ones like “How often last month have students told stories about you that were not true?” or “How often last month did students not include you in joining in what they were doing?”
Most previous research has looked at physical and verbal bullying.
This study appears in the June issue of Springer’s Journal of Youth and Adolescence.
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