Bullying in Schools

Julian Flores, Jonah Harm, Tyler Hussey,

Keenan Klinkenborg
Introduction ● Bullying is the action of seeking to
induce harm through negative
behaviors of teasing, taunting, or acts
of intimidation.
● Bullying is most seen in schools
● People can suffer from psychological
and sometimes physical scars that last
a lifetime
● Cyberbullying
○ Bullying on the internet on
sources like social media
 Bullying is an aggressive
behavior that includes negative actions and
Definition of it is very common among school aged
children. Bullying can come verbally
Bullying through concrete behaviors like name
calling, rumor spreading, or hitting and
kicking. It can also be induced through the
internet with cyberbullies intimidating
teens.

Forms of Bullying include:

Physical - This is any bullying that hurts

someone’s body or damages their possessions.
Ex. Stealing, shoving, hitting, fighting, and
destroying property

Verbal - This is any bullying that is done by

speaking. Ex. Calling names, spreading rumors,
 Cyber - This is any bullying that happens over
any technological device. This includes email,
Definitions of instant messaging, social networking sites, text

Bullying Continued messages, and cell phones.

Emotional - any act including confinement,

isolation, verbal assault, humiliation,
intimidation, infantilization, or any other
treatment which may diminish the sense of
identity, dignity, and self-worth.

Prejudicial - Bullying that is discriminatory

against ethnicity, religion, or culturel.

Sexual - Type of bullying and harassment that

occurs in connection with a person's sex, body,
sexual orientation or with sexual activity.
Our Schools Policy Getting caught in bullying a fellow student will
Regarding Bullying
result in either a detention, Saturday School,

Suspension, transfer to another School/Program or

Expulsion from the district. The issuing of the

punishment will count on how many times this

individual has been involved and depending on

the situation the matter may require special

attention.
Causes of Bullying ● Most often a bad living environment
creates a bully.
● They often feel powerless at home so
they go to school and hurt others.
● ¨Bullies hurt others in order to feel
strong and powerful in the given
moment” (Kuther).
● Tensions are created by;
○ Racism
(Why Anti-Bullying Videos Are Useless (Even Bad).” )
○ Sexism
○ Elitism
○ Different interest
 ● “35 percent of kids were directly involved in
bullying incidents” (Barbara coloroso)
Bullying in Schools ● “38 percent of students identified as special
education students were bullied, compared
with 18 percent of other students”(Barbara
coloroso)
● “85 percent of girls and 76 percent of boys
reported having experienced sexual
harassment.”(Barbara coloroso)
● “over all, 10.6% of the sample reported
bullying ‘sometimes’ (moderate bullying) and
8.8% admitted to bullying others once a week
or more(frequent bullying), providing a
national estimate of 2027254 youth involved in
moderate bullying and 1681030 youth in
frequent bullying”.(Tonja R. Nansel)
 ● Bullying can be stopped by everyone
including bystanders, victims, and
How to Respond to even bullies themselves.
Bullying. ● Victims should always try to first
handle the situation with words. If It
continues to escalate, proper
authorities should be notified.
● Bystanders should let victims know
they are with them and offer support
as well as talking to proper
authorities.
● Often time bullies don't realize what
(Let's Tackle Bullying Together.” )
they are doing is hurtful. Self
behavior checks can keep you from
becoming a bullie yourself.
 Work Cited

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