Bullying may seem an insignificant issue when compared to drug abuse or guns being brought into schools. However, what compels students to believe they need to bring a weapon to school? Bullying comes in many shapes and forms. Being the last picked for a team, excluded from a party, pushed in the hallway, or teased are just a few examples of bullying. Parents, teachers, and students hear it, see it, but how to intervene and prevent bullying is the big question. What do teachers and parents let slide or put a stop to? When peers see bullying, do they get involved? What if the bully turns their attention onto them as a new victim? Or if they report the incident to an adult, run the risk of being labeled as a tattle-tail? From an adult's perspective, how can they punish what they do not see? "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me," is how the old motto goes, however, words hurt most of all. No bones may be broken, yet a child's broken spirit can be considerably worse.
What Is Bullying?.
A top researcher of bullying in school-age children, Dan Olweus, defines bullying as:.
"A student is being bullied or victimized when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other students.".
Olweus has done extensive studies in Norway over the past 20 years and found that approximately 15 per cent, or one in seven students, are involved in victim/bully.
problems. Within these same studies, about 9 per cent are victims, and 7 per cent bully others on a regular basis. A child who is tougher, more daring, and more confident than normal, tend to bully other children who are weaker, more shy, who might not fight back or act in an aggressive way. There is a power difference between a bully and a victim. Believing that bullies are insecure inside all their brazenness is false. Research shows that their self-esteem is often average or above average.
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Cyber bullying in social media and even bullying through televisions social news shows is something that affects 42% of teenagers and celebrities. ... CNN, MSNBC, ABC and pretty much every other news media outlet will have similar newscasters and similar news. ...
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Whether it be in Kindergarten, getting tested on their ABC's, to the ever so difficult, life threatening third grade multiplication tests. ... Most people wouldn't believe that most cases of stress are from academics, and not bullying. ...
The US has amassed a large number of troops in the Middle East and this pressure is felt by many as threatening and bullying. ... On the program Four Corners on the ABC on the tenth of March highlighted the number of countries who would be almost forced to vote in favour of the US because of their dependence on economic aid packages. ...
These were the names of these temples: Henna- This is the Shoaling temple seen in Chinese Kung Fu movies, and the one portrayed on the ABC- TV "Kung Fu" series of the 1970's. ... Forbidden to abuse power, be it official or physical; forbidden to oppress the good and the bully kind. 9. ...
A few days after the world heard about the shoe being smacked against Hussein's forehead, ABC News reporter John Donvan and his crew crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq and visited the town. ... It is not surprising that some are describing this coalition as an American public relations exercise, an attempt by the Bush administration to deny claims that this a unilateral war by "conning and bullying" other nations into offering support and no doubt there's some truth to that. ...
In the story James tells of he and Johnny walking home from school one day and being accosted by a bully who was much bigger than both of them. He said that Johnny told the guy that he wasn't going to bully them and threatened him to a fight which he refused(Corkery,1987). ...
