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Two experts explain how teachers can create an "anti-bullying climate" in their classes

Implemented bullying programs in more than two dozen schools. nice to see both of you. doctor, you're not surprised that this is a hate crime among those 15 counts. why not? >> because increasingly what we'll finding in the last 20 years of research that we've done around bullying is increasingly middle school and high school kids are reporting they're being tormented and teased through homophobic epitaphs. so increasingly as kids are going through middle school and high school and coming to college, like freshman at rutgers, they're holding kind of homophobic attitudes because this attitude i...

States, doesn't have specifically a bullying law. so they're using laws like harassment and that does certainly seem to raise the possibility of a plea bargain to lesser charges which would keep these kids out of prison. >> so, po, let me go big picture with you a little bit, and talk to us about what the science says here, i guess as much as there is about the affects of bullying and the possibility that it can lead, as it did in this case, to suicidean al beha. >> big picture, the antibullying legislation, i'm sorry to say will not have a big effect. limit all of the existing bullying progra...

Harassment, and that does certainly seem to raise the possibility of a plea bargain to lesser charges which would keep these kids out of prison. >> so, po, let me go big picture with you a little bit, and talk to us about what the science says here, i guess as much as there is about the affects of bullying and the possibility that it can lead, as it did in this case, to suicidal behavior. >> well, big picture, the anti-bullying legislation, i'm sorry to say, is not going to have a big effect. limiting all of the existing bullying programs have occasionally or effective, usually are not, and 15...