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Facts (and rambling) about bullying. |
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# It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students. Source: National Education Association.
# A survey conducted by the American Association of University Women reported that 85% of girls and 76% of boys have been sexually harassed in some form and only 18% of those incidents were perpetrated by an adults.
Young bullies carry a one-in-four chance of having a criminal record by age 30. Study by Leonard Eron and Rowell Huesman.
# American schools harbor approximately 2.1 million bullies and 2.7 million of their victims. Dan Olweus, National School Safety Center.
# One in seven students is either a bully or victim.
# 56% of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school.
# 15% of all school absenteeism is directly related to fears of being bullied at school.
# 71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school.
# One out of 20 students has seen a student with a gun at school.
# Mean behavior among kids is a universal problem. In a poll of 232 kids in kindergarten through 8th grade at a Connecticut elementary school, every child claimed to have been the victim of at least one schoolmate’s or sibling’s meanness in the previous month.
~ From the werbsite: http://www.parentingbookmark.com/pages/articleMB04.htm
What Is Bullying?
Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior that is intentional, hurtful, (physical and psychological), and/or threatening and persistent (repeated). There is an imbalance of strength (power and dominance).
The above definition includes the following criteria that will help you determine if a student is being bullied:
* The mistreatment must be intentional.
* The mistreatment must be hurtful (physical or psychological).
* The mistreatment is threatening. The individual fears harms. Fear their safety.
* The mistreatment must occur more than once. However, some disagree with this. They say one very hurtful event is enough to label it bullying.
* There must be a power imbalance.
What Does Bullying Look Like?
Direct Bullying Behaviors
Physical Bullying (a few examples)
* Hitting, slapping, elbowing, shouldering (slamming someone with your shoulder)
* Shoving in a hurtful or embarrassing way
* Kicking
* Taking, stealing, damaging or defacing belongings or other property
* Restraining
* Pinching
* Flushing someone’s head in the toilet
* Cramming someone into his or her locke
* Attacking with spit wads or food
Verbal Bullying (a few examples)
* Name-calling
* Insulting remarks and put-downs
* Repeated teasing
* Racist remarks or other harassment
* Threats and intimidation
* Whispering behind someone’s back
Indirect Bullying Behaviors
Social/Relational (a few examples)
* Destroying and manipulating relationships (turning your best friend against you)
* Destroying status within a peer group
* Destroying reputations
* Humiliation and embarrassment
* Intimidation
* Gossiping, spreading nasty and malicious rumors and lies about someone
* Hurtful graffiti
* Excluding someone from a group (social rejection or isolation)
* Stealing boyfriends or girlfriends to hurt someone
* Negative body language (facial expressions, turning your back to someone)
* Threatening gestures, taunting, pestering, insulting remarks and gestures
* Glares and dirty looks, nasty jokes, notes passed around, anonymous notes
* Hate petitions (promising to hate someone)
Other Bullying Behaviors
* Cyber bullying: negative text messages on cell phones, e-mail, or voice-mail messages, Web pages, and so on Direct and indirect forms of bullying often occur together. All of these behaviors can be interrelated.
~From the website: http://www.bullyfree.com/free-resources/facts-about-bullying
Rambling:
BULLYING IS WRONG PEOPLE!!!!! These facts should help you recognize and realize what bullying is and does. I was bullied in public school for my entire life that I was in public school, luckily though I was able to be taken out and home schooled by the time I got to eighth grade. Wanna know why I was bullied? Because I was overweight and different from everyone else. Not a very good reason eh? Well Pasts the past but I wanna get my message out there and to stop bullying! If you are a bully, STOP IT! Wanna know the pain your causing? Tons of kids under 18 KILL themselves because people are too inconsiderate and mean to them. Either they try to commit suicide, succeed, just deal with it, or get pulled out of school because of the mean people. Just please stop!
 Fune Sora · Tue Mar 08, 2011 @ 09:08pm · 0 Comments |
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