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03/11/2013
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Agency Brazil
Rio de Janeiro - The public and private schools of Rio de Janeiro will have a week dedicated to fighting aobullying (act of physically or verbally assaulting a child or adolescent, so continuous and intentional) and cyberbullying (assault made by internet). The initiative is scheduled for the first week of April and will remember the victims of the massacre at the Municipal School Tasso da Silveira in Realengo in the west of the state capital.
On the morning of April 7, 2011, Wellington Menezes de Oliveira, 23, a former student of the school, stormed the building, armed with two handguns and killed 12 students committing suicide after the attack.
According to the Department of Education, the educational actions to combat bullying and cyberbullying will be made with the participation of students in public schools throughout the school year, but the schedule the week of the event has not yet been defined.
According to the National Survey of School Health (Think), the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), 21% of cases of bullying occur in classrooms, even with the presence of the teacher.
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