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Food Allergies and Bullying

A study released in December 2012 in the journal Pediatrics surveying children 6-10^th grade, indicates that bullying is common among children with food allergies, and often involves threats with food.

 Compared to non-bullied children, bullied food-allergic children report higher anxiety and lower quality of life. The good news is that the study also indicated that if a parent is aware of the bullying, the child’s quality of life is better. However, parents were aware of just half of bullying cases among the studied population.

Bullying at school has also been an important topic in education and public health in recent years.  Many studies have been done to identify causes, solutions and impacts of bullying, this was the first to address the relationship between bullying and food allergies and most importantly child and family quality of life. 

The study surveyed 251 families recruited from an allergy clinic. All included a child with a food allergy. More than “45 percent of children and 36 percent of their parents said their child had been bullied or harassed for any reason, and 31 percent of the children and 25 percent of the parents reported bullying specifically to food allergies.”

Food allergies are a growing concern in our school population and much work has been done to address each student’s needs to keep them safe at school,  All parents should follow the Newton Public Schools Life-Threatening Food Allergy Guidelines of minimizing the use of food during the school day.

For further information please refer to:

Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics : www.aanma.org

American College of Allergy Asthma and Immunology: www.acaai.org

To read the full study, go to http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/131/1/e10.full.html

The article title is: “Child and Parental Reports of Bullying in a Consecutive Sample of Children With Food Allergy.” 

The Newton Police are offering the R.A.D. Program (women's self-defense) at Newton North High School. The class will be held on three consecutive Sundays in March (March 3, 10, and 17). They will also be offering men's basic self-defense course on the same days. Any students interested should contact Sgt. William Spalding at radnpd@gmail.com.

Participation is limited to 25 each session. R.A.D. for women will run from 12:00 to 3:00 and basic self-defense for men will run from 4:00 to 7:00.

The Huntington Lecture Series - "An intellectual treat" 
To emphasize our commitment to scholarship, Principal Price and the PTSO are sponsoring a series of lectures by faculty and community members on a wide-ranging variety of topics of interest to all. The series encourages faculty and parents to get to know one another in an intellectual and professional setting.

Staff, students, parents and friends are cordially invited to attend a talk on THREE GREAT HISTORIANS: Winston Churchill,  Barbara Tuchman and Fernand Braudel.  The discussion will consider who writes history and why is important in understanding the content of the work itself. The uses of the past are many, and these three historians, chosen for their differences, shed light on the multiple ways that history can inform our lives and serve wider aims. The focus will be on how their work reflects their motives and purposes as historians.  All three of the historians considered in this lecture have achieved levels of greatness and we will try to determine what that means and why it is so.

Ned Rossiter taught history at Newton North for 33 years and was the history department  head from 1976 until he retired in 2001. He has since taught in the Education Program at Brandeis University and is active helping to manage a community farm in his hometown of Weston.

Please join us Thursday, March 21, 2013 from 4:00 to 5:00 p.m. in the Film Lecture Hall at Newton North High School.

Students:

Did you know you can vote in the March 12 election if you turn 18 on or before March 12? You must register by February 20. Attached registration forms are also available in the senior house office (Barry House). Once the form is filled out, take or mail it to City Hall, 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA 02459.

Parents:

If you have a college student, please encourage him/her to vote. You can download an absentee ballot form below. Hurry! Ballots must be turned in before the election.  
 

You have benefited from our fantastic school system, so please help preserve its quality for Newton's future students.

For more information on Building Newton's Future and to watch Mayor Warren speak on the override, click HERE .

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