Teaching Tolerance Magazine

Issue 28, Fall 2005

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Bully on the Bus

Bullying does not begin or end at the schoolhouse door. The Fall 2005 issue features a special report on an oft-ignored arena of school-age harassment: the bus. A personal account from one young girl puts a human face on this pervasive problem.

This issue also coincides with a new Teaching Tolerance film and class kit: One Survivor Remembers, featuring Gerda Weissmann Klein’s story of Holocaust survival. Hear her words, as well as the perspective of an Ohio educator meeting resistance as she tries to teach the subject.

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Features

Saved by a Spiral Notebook

A first-year teacher uses journalism exercises—lessons learned from a favorite teacher—to build classroom unity and trust.

Game Face

Curriculum kit challenges assumptions, builds confidence and questions stereotypes.

‘Here To Tell My Story’

In developing the One Survivor Remembers kit, Teaching Tolerance's Curriculum Specialist/Writer Jeff Sapp spoke extensively with Holocaust survivor Gerda Weissmann Klein.

Departments

Perspectives

Lessons of Tolerance

One young girl's experience on the school bus mirrors problems going on all over the country.
Story Corner

The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal

Once upon a time there was a very clever boy. Nearby was a village he decided to visit. Just outside that village he came upon a crowd of people standing in a field. As he drew near, he saw they looked quite frightened