Bullying is aggressive behavior that is intentional and that involves and imbalance of power or strength. Bullying can take many forms, such as hitting, kicking, threatening others, teasing, name-calling, and excluding from a group, or sending mean notes or e-mails.
How big of a problem is bullying?
Well, bullying is very common during the elementary and middle school years. Study shows that 4th-6th graders, 25% of students admitted to bullying another student several times. In a middle school study, it shows that 80% of students reported engaging in some form of bullying during the past 30 days; with 15% doing so frequently.
Who takes part in bullying?
Bullying usually involves students picking on other fellow classmates or lower classmen. Many students witness bullying but do not take any action, they either engage in bullying nor help stop it. Many students are reluctant to try to stop bullying because they are afraid of being bullied or to be part of the popular group or simply because they do not know how to help that person out.
Do boys and girls get bullied the same? …show more content…
Boys will push another boy into the and intimidate him with strength. If the kid doesn’t do what the other kid wants him to do then the boy will start punching the other kid until he gives in and is scared to ever say no to him again. On the girls side though, the way they are bullied is way more on the verbal side. They will have rumors spread around about them usually sexual comments. That is what a girl on girl bully does, girls also get bullied by guys believe or not. It might not be a physical bullying but verbal. The guy can spread rumors about her that aren’t true just to get her to do what he wants, he can do that to by intimidating her by manhelding her which is not right at all. This all just states how each sex gets