Bullying The website stopbullying.gov defines bullying as unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. This behavior is often repeated over time ending with both the bully and the victim sustaining lasting problems that they carry with them through their lives. Students who become bullies show the following characteristics: physically bothering another student (shoving or hitting), mocking (teasing) or continuous mental abuse (being harassed so much that the victim feels depressed or even suicidal), or a deliberate exclusion from a group for the purpose of humiliation (stopbullying.gov). Hoover & Stenhjem (2003) advises, “that bullying consists of a series of a repeated, intentional, cruel incidents between the same children who are in the same bully and victim roles.”
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and may also be the most prevalent type of school violence (Brown, Low, Smith, & Haggerty, 2011). Dake, Price & Telljohann (2003) explain that conflicting research exists regarding physical characteristics of students involved in bullying behaviors and that in elementary schools, the prevalence of bullying ranges from 11.3% in Finland to 49.8% in Ireland and the only United States study of elementary students found that 19% were bullied. The researchers also found that as students get older and go through the different grades that bullying behavior tends to decrease (Dake et al. 2003). A whole school approach which is assessing the problem, planning school conference days, providing better supervision at recess, forming a bullying prevention coordinating group, encouraging parent-teacher meetings, establishing classroom rules against bullying, holding classroom meetings about bullying, requiring talks with the bullies and victims, and scheduling talks with the parents of involved students (Dake et al. 2003) (taken from Christina Murphy,
and may also be the most prevalent type of school violence (Brown, Low, Smith, & Haggerty, 2011). Dake, Price & Telljohann (2003) explain that conflicting research exists regarding physical characteristics of students involved in bullying behaviors and that in elementary schools, the prevalence of bullying ranges from 11.3% in Finland to 49.8% in Ireland and the only United States study of elementary students found that 19% were bullied. The researchers also found that as students get older and go through the different grades that bullying behavior tends to decrease (Dake et al. 2003). A whole school approach which is assessing the problem, planning school conference days, providing better supervision at recess, forming a bullying prevention coordinating group, encouraging parent-teacher meetings, establishing classroom rules against bullying, holding classroom meetings about bullying, requiring talks with the bullies and victims, and scheduling talks with the parents of involved students (Dake et al. 2003) (taken from Christina Murphy,