Valley View School District Anonymous Bullying Reporting Tool Makes its Debut
The new system, Sprigeo, was piloted last spring at four Valley View schools.
Editor's note: The following is a press release from Valley View School District 365U. Every student in Valley View Community Unit School District 365U will soon be able to report a bullying incident through an anonymous internet-based system called Sprigeo. Four VVSD schools piloted Sprigeo as an anonymous bullying reporting tool last spring with great success, recording dozens of reports. Administrators at Humphrey and Lukancic Middle Schools as well as Wood View and Beverly Skoff Elementary Schools were able to follow up on each and every report. "Every seven minutes a child is bullied somewhere in this country," said VVSD Community Outreach Coordinator Michele Bochnak. "Valley View is taking this nationwide problem seriously but we …
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Jim Corcoran
7:26 am on Thursday, November 8, 2012
A high school in Appleton, Wisconsin tried an experiment under the enlightened guidance of their principal, LuAnn Coenen. She wanted to see if she could positively affect the fighting, weapons-carrying and general lack of focus and discipline in the school by changing the food the kids ate. Vending machines were replaced with water coolers; hamburgers and French fries were taken off the menu and … more ›