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Putting the brakes on bullying

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Published 02/07/08

Kyle Vansant has been taunted by bullies. The 12-year-old Fairhaven resident isn't afraid to admit to being the victim of verbal abuse, but he said the situation has improved in the past few years.

Joshua McKerrow - The Capital Boy Scouts Alex Molster, 12, left, and Michael Birckelbaw, right, 13, pretend to taunt fellow scout Kyle Vansant, 12.
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He's also not shy about explaining how he deals with these kinds of situations: He usually laces into the offenders with some choice language of his own.

But he knows there are other ways to combat bullying, like informing an adult, as he's learned in Boy Scouts.

"I think they (the Scouts) do a great job," said Kyle, a member of Troop 91, which meets in Edgewater.

The Scouts have always discussed ways to...

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