This means getting the entire school -- teachers, administrators, and the students -- to agree to make your school a bully-free zone. Even those indirectly involved in the school, such as bus drivers, need to support and receive training on anti-bullying measures. It takes more than an assembly or a bunch of signs pronouncing a bully-free zone to truly create a bully-free environment for students.  Change how kids think about other kids. For example, creating an anti-bullying program may involve creating lesson plans whereby children learn more about other kids, especially those who come from different backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures, or different learning styles or abilities. Or, teachers might teach cooperation by assigning group projects, which help students learn how to compromise and assert themselves without being too demanding.  Rules about bullying and its consequences should be discussed and posted publicly in the school, sent home to parents, and put in community newspapers to create a universal awareness of the issue. This will begin the process of large-scale transformation. Most bullying in schools occurs in areas that have less supervision by adults, like school buses, cafeterias, restrooms, hallways, and locker rooms.  Schools need to address these areas by enhancing the monitoring of these spaces by additional adults or using enhanced security techniques including closed circuit cameras.  Schools can also establish anonymous reporting tools like suggestion boxes or hotlines where students can send text messages or leave voicemails.
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One-sentence summary -- Get everyone on board. Put words into action. Create greater surveillance.


Steroids are injected straight into the scar tissue to help decrease itching, redness, and general discomfort. Some doctors note that the treatment of these symptoms with steroidal injections can also reduce the appearance of scars. Steroid injections (triamcinolone) are given every two to six weeks until improvement is seen. Occasionally, injections can cause a network of surface veins to develop (telangiectasias), or lightening or thinning of the surrounding skin. Research has shown that cryotherapy can decrease the thickness of the scar tissue by up to 58%. The earlier the treatment and thinner the keloid scar, the better the results. Cryotherapy is performed in the physician office using medical instruments that instantly freeze the tissue and kill it on contact.  Cryotherapy can cause burns, more scar formation and damage to nearby healthy tissue if done improperly. When cryotherapy is used to treat keloid tissue, further preventative methods must be used as the area heals, such as silicone dioxide, silicone gel sheets and steroid injections. Another option for reducing the appearance of keloid scars is radiation therapy. Some plastic surgeons avoid this method of scar removal due to concerns about causing tumors, but studies have shown that this is a safe method as long as surrounding tissues are protected. By itself, surgery can often cause further aggravation and create more scars, but if performed in combination with a number of other treatments (e.g. silicone sheeting and silicone dioxide), surgery can reduce the visibility of such scarring. Once the surgical excision has healed, discuss the use of silicone gel sheets to reduce the recurrence of the scar formation. If you decide to go the surgical route, ask your doctor about Imiquimod. It is a cream that enhances healing and is often used after surgery to prevent scarring. The cream is applied on alternate nights for eight weeks after surgery. Although the trials have been small, the post-surgical recurrence rate averaged only 28 percent over a six- to nine-month follow-up period, with best results (2.9 percent recurrence) in low skin tension areas such as earlobes.
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One-sentence summary -- Ask your doctor about steroid injections. Try cryotherapy. Ask about radiation therapy. Discuss surgical excision with your doctor.


You are now a week into the diet and will probably be tired and hungry. Day seven starts with no breakfast, just a cup of tea without sugar. It gets worse with no lunch, just lots and lots of water. You do get to eat something in the evening, but only 200 grams (7.1 oz) of lamb and one apple.  Day eight is a little easier, but you still go without breakfast and only drink a coffee with one sugar. Day eight is the same as day one: two hard boiled eggs with 400 grams (14 oz) of boiled spinach and a tomato for lunch. In the evening you can eat 200 grams (7.1 oz) of beef with 150 g (2 cups) of lettuce. You can add a little lemon juice and olive oil to the lettuce for extra flavour. On day nine you continue to skip breakfast, just drinking a coffee with one sugar. At lunch time you are permitted to eat 250 grams (8.8 oz) of lean ham along with one pot of natural yoghurt. For dinner you can eat a little more than the previous evening: 250 grams (8.8 oz) of beef with 150 g (2 cups) of lettuce.  On day 10 you have one slice of bread with your coffee for breakfast, the first solid breakfast since day six. Lunch is two hard boiled eggs together with 100 grams (3.5 oz) of ham and some lettuce on the side. The food for the evening the same as day three, just one tomato, some boiled celery and one serving of fruit. The end is almost in sight, and you will no doubt be feeling the strains of such a severely restrictive diet. On day 11 stick with a coffee and one slice of bread for breakfast. For lunch eat one pot of natural yoghurt and drink 200 milliliters (6.8  fl oz) of orange juice. Day 11 is the same as day four and for dinner you again eat one hard boiled egg, one carrot and one serving of cottage cheese.  On day 12, have just one carrot for breakfast, before eating 200 grams (7.1 oz) of boiled fish for lunch. You can add a little butter and lemon juice to the fish. For your dinner eat 250 grams (8.8 oz) of beef with some celery on the side. On the final day start with the familiar breakfast of one cup of coffee with a slice of toast. For lunch you can eat two hard boiled eggs along with one carrot. On the last day the diet advises you to skip the evening meal altogether.
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Continue with days seven and eight. Keep going for days nine and 10. Push on to days 11 and 12. Finish on day 13.