{"id":97,"date":"2009-12-01T13:25:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T18:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/?p=97"},"modified":"2009-12-01T14:29:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T19:29:20","slug":"ginger-n-spice-things-not-so-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/ginger-n-spice-things-not-so-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginger ‘n Spice – What’s Not so Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago\u00a0(November 15 – 21, 2009) was National Bullying Awareness Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bullying <\/a>is a concern for kids, teens and even adults every single day. And while it’s important to talk about it during the other 51 weeks of the year, having a week dedicated to talking about this problem is something I strongly encourage.<\/p>\n

On a positive note, there were a lot of great news stories, blog entries and media coverage that talked about bullying and cyber-bullying. In fact, the Toronto Star <\/a>and ParentCentral.ca<\/a>\u00a0covered a great story on cyber-bullying<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What really upsets, angers and saddens me is that during that same week of awareness, November 20 is unofficially known as National Kick a Ginger Day<\/a>. It stems from a South Park episode that was in 2005.<\/p>\n

Throughout North America, there are\u00a0 reports that students in uban, remote and rural communities participated in Kick a Ginger Day.\u00a0I heard about it last Monday and as someone who was bullied in junior high,\u00a0thought, “Enough is enough; I have something to say about this.”<\/p>\n

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So what are your thoughts on bullying and Kick a Ginger Day? Is it just a silly joke that we’re taking too seriously? Should we expel and publicly punish anyone promoting this targeting tactic? Is there somewhere we can meet in the middle?<\/p>\n

For me, bullying is wrong. Plain and simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two weeks ago\u00a0(November 15 – 21, 2009) was National Bullying Awareness Week. Bullying is a concern for kids, teens and even adults every single day. And while it’s important to talk about it during the other 51 weeks of the year, having a week dedicated to talking about this problem is something I strongly encourage. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,33],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3zorl-1z","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/virginiamiddleton.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}