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  1. Write a response that evaluates Ben Boychuk and Joel Mathis’s arguments by examining the relevance and credibility of the evidence each writer presents. In your response, be sure to cite evidence from both sections of the article to support your response. Use the space below to plan your response. Then write your final response on the lined page provided. Step 1- Read the article and outline the arguments Step 3- Find the evidence and note a few examples in the chart Step 3- Examine the each example of evidence (Is it credible? Is it relevant?) Step 4- Based on the evidence (credibility/relevance), decide if the argument is weakorstrong. Step 5- Write your essay. Begin with stating if you think the argument is weakorstrong. Support your opinion with the evidence examples. MAKE SURE TO USE THE WORDS CREDIBLE AND RELEVANT WHEN WRITING ABOUT THE EVIDENCE!!

  2. Ben Boychuk: Government acts, language can't stop bullyingSparing children from the casual cruelties of tormenting peers is a quandary state lawmakers — and especially the federal government — are badly equipped to address.Not that they haven't tried, and won't try harder. Most states require schools to adopt anti-bullying programs. Legislators in New Jersey are debating an "Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights" after a gay Rutgers student committed suicide in September.But that's not enough for some activists. A coalition of more than 70 civil rights, religious, and civic groups wants sweeping action from Congress and the Obama administration — including legislation that could make bullying a federal crime.New laws, however well intended, are not the answer. Recall the inept and overreaching government response to what the media portrayed as an "epidemic" of school shootings in the 1990s. Numerous states passed "zero tolerance" laws. Not to be outdone, Congress in 1994 passed the Gun-Free Schools Act, which required all states to impose sweeping zero-tolerance rules or risk losing federal funds.The results? Idiocy and injustice. To pick just a few examples: A first-grader sent to reform school for bringing a cub scout camping tool to school; a middle-school girl suspended for packing a butter knife in her lunch; an honors student nearly expelled for keeping a keychain knife in his car.Yet zero-tolerance and "gun-free" school rules could not save a single life at Columbine High School or Virginia Tech.Despite these bitter experiences, lawmakers and elected leaders — including Obama — have embraced the language of zero tolerance to combat bullying. Does anyone seriously believe a "Bully-Free Schools Act" would be any more successful than the Gun-Free Schools Act?For good and for ill, bullying is a problem only families, churches, schools and communities can hope to resolve.

  3. Boychuk: Laws will NOT stop bullying. ARE THESE CREDIBLE AND RELEVENT TO THE TOPIC OF STOPPING BULLYING IN SCHOOLS? Evidence (facts, examples, expert opinion): “Recall the inept and overreaching government response to what the media portrayed as an "epidemic" of school shootings in the 1990s. Numerous states passed "zero tolerance" laws.““The results? Idiocy and injustice. “ “To pick just a few examples: A first-grader sent to reform school for bringing a cub scout camping tool to school; a middle-school girl suspended for packing a butter knife in her lunch; an honors student nearly expelled for keeping a keychain knife in his car.”“Yet zero-tolerance and "gun-free" school rules could not save a single life at Columbine High School or Virginia Tech.” “Does anyone seriously believe a "Bully-Free Schools Act" would be any more successful than the Gun-Free Schools Act?”

  4. Joel Mathis: Bullying is for homes, schools, communities to addressLet me tell you about the most important teacher I ever had: Terry Hill. Hill was a social studies and P.E. teacher at the middle school in the mid-Kansas town where my family moved in the 1980s. Adolescence is never easy, and transitioning to a new school complicates the level of difficulty: I didn't immediately fit in — and found myself on the wrong end of confrontations with my fellow students. I was miserable. And then Mr. Hill stepped in.I'm told he had a few words with my classmates; I wasn't there for that. What I do remember is that he called me out of class one day and sat with me in a school stairwell, asking me questions and listening to my pained answers for the better part of an hour.And for the next few years, he gave me encouragement, even handing me books he thought would entertain and enrich me. Middle school didn't become perfect, but it did become bearable.Can the feds end bullying in our schools? No. They probably can't even make a dent in it. The attitudes and actions of bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., will have precious little influence during the precarious school hallway moments that can shape a young person's life. Ben is right: the problem is in our homes and schools and communities, and that's where it must be addressed.That means cracking down on bullies, yes, but it also means shining a light on adults who enable bullying behavior — like the Arkansas school official under fire for a homophobic Facebook post.And it means following the examples of teachers like Terry Hill who listen to, encourage and empower students in need of a lifeline. Thanks, Mr. Hill, wherever you are.

  5. Mathis: Schools and communities can end bullying. ARE THESE CREDIBLE AND RELEVENT TO THE TOPIC OF STOPPING BULLYING IN SCHOOLS? Evidence (facts, examples, expert opinion): “Adolescence is never easy, and transitioning to a new school complicates the level of difficulty: I didn't immediately fit in — and found myself on the wrong end of confrontations with my fellow students. I was miserable. And then Mr. Hill stepped in.”“I'm told he had a few words with my classmates; I wasn't there for that. What I do remember is that he called me out of class one day and sat with me in a school stairwell, asking me questions and listening to my pained answers for the better part of an hour.”“Middle school didn't become perfect, but it did become bearable.”“That means cracking down on bullies, yes, but it also means shining a light on adults who enable bullying behavior — like the Arkansas school official under fire for a homophobic Facebook post.”“And it means following the examples of teachers like Terry Hill who listen to, encourage and empower students in need of a lifeline. Thanks, Mr. Hill, wherever you are.”

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