Towards the beginning of the 2007-2008 school year, the principal banned hugging on school grounds as part of an anti-bullying program.
Keating's office also began an anti-bullying program in spring 2001.
One objective of the anti-bullying programs, especially those for younger students, is to teach children to speak up.
Feeding money into anti-bullying programs is not the only pathway to building safe schools.
The report also criticised the prison's anti-bullying programmes, accommodation and resettlement work.
West's anti-bullying program is now used in most schools in the state of Connecticut's school-system.
He has proposed that alternatives to anti-bullying programs be used in Loudoun County schools.
The preventative anti-bullying program has now been implemented in more than 1,000 preschools and 370 schools throughout Denmark.
The anti-bullying program attracted the ire of right-wing Christian activists.
Lectures and anti-bullying programs occur frequently and each month teachers focus on certain types of bullying, such as exclusion.
