I saw this morning and thought this SM did a great job. I was offended on how the media labeled it as if the SM was doing something "evil" to get more publicity on the article. SM's always get labeled as "evil".

Saw this yesterday on Yahoo news and posted it on my f/b wall. I'm waiting for the shitstorm to rain down from the SD's lol

“However, parents should be careful about introducing shame and guilt onto kids as a form of punishment,” she says. According to Filizetti, a better plan of action may have been to sit down with the child and understand the motivations behind the bullying, then use that knowledge to expose him or her to children who are different from them. To further the learning lesson, it may also be wise to have the kid sit down with the peer they hurt and listen to how the behavior was hurtful. “It’s less important that the bully explain where they were coming from and more important that the victim feels heard,” she says.

WTFE.... I'm sorry but for the majority of kids who do this, sitting them down and "talking" with them to get to the "root" of the problem does NOTHING. In fact, I bet in 99.9% of the cases, the kids' response would be either "I dunno" or "Because it was funny"

That up there is more of that "everyone gets a trophy" and "everyone finishes first" mentality.