Victimisation

5. What are the four key questions for educators to include in their fact-based assessment of school violence? 1) Have the students developed a plan and communicated it to others? o Often times, students have told their plans of committing violence to someone in advance. 2) Have students been bullied? o It has been found that more than 66% of attackers claimed to be bullied, threatened, attacked, or injured by others before the incident took place. 3) Have students engaged in behaviors that…

Television host Dr. Phil once said, “When you chose your behavior, you chose your consequences.” Some careless people would say that your decisions want affect you. They many not affect you until a certain point, but you need to always think that they will. Riley Park is a great book to read that teaches a great lesson that apply’s to todays young people: sometimes your actions/decisions can cause long term consequences. In Riley Park, the author uses conflict to teach that sometimes your…

At first glance this statement sounds very poetic and unreal, but when you put a lot of thought into it your eyes are open to the real world around us. Our world is ruled by this statement. This occurs with humans and other humans, animals and other animals, and between people and animals. This is as how our world works. I say this statement is very true and real. This can happen upon two people through bullying. When one person is bullying another person, they do it so that they can feel…

HIB stands for harassment, intimidation, and bullying, including cyber-bullying. These actions have become serious and escalating problems in our schools and sadly, have led to suicide of our youth. To confront this problem, the Anti-Bullying Act was created to clarify standards on how to “prevent, report, investigate, and respond to incidents of HIB,” (Anti- Act, 2010, p. 1) Schools are now collecting data which is monitored and reported to the State. The Superintendent reports data to the BOE…

Why do bullys do what they do? For the simple reason that subconsciously they feel inferior and unadaquate and try to compensate for this by bullying those that appear to be weaker. Notice that a bully is a coward for they wont bully people that will strike back in like but will allways latch onto those that are for whatever reason unable to respond in kind. What bullies dont know is that by the very act of bullying they are showing their weakness. Yes they are weak and inferior in their mental…

To better understanding the scope of problem, it is necessary to have a clear definition of bullying and a clear and concise description of what bullying behaviour involves. How bullying is defined and characteristics of bullying are described varies greatly in the literature. According to a commonly referenced definition of bullying given by Olweus (1994) bullying is a chronic form of victimization or aggression involving attempts to harm the other person (as cited in Benitez & Justica, 2006).…

Bullying Bullying is a serious problem in today’s society, it is not the victim’s fault it is the bullies so why do bullies bully? Can you imagine going to school every day and getting bullied for no reason? The definition of bullying is someone who is verbally, physically, socially and psychologically showing aggressive behaviour directed towards a less powerful person or group that is intended to cause harm, distress or fear. The types of bullying are verbal or written abuse, violence, sexual…

Cyberbullying is a term marked for children or teens that are tormented, abused, embarrassed and harassed using the internet or mobile phones. As we see bullies in schools and colleges, dragging weak children around, similarly those teenagers who tend to harass someone online, use cyberbullying. It is usually not a onetime attempt. Sources for cyberbullying can be websites like “Facebook”, “Twitter”, and “Skype” etc. Increase in technology in no doubt helping the world to proceed with…

The effects of bullying on kids and teenagers are significant. The one who is being bullied will first start feeling upset, angry leading to anxiety and depression and finally a percentage of attempting suicide. Bullying will take away everything from the victim: his personality, his confidence, self-esteem,… fear will be his first feeling when he step into his school, then after a while this poor kid will hate going to school, most kids who do not attempt suicide will stop going to school, and…

1) Bullying Bullying is activities that are undesired, destructive and deliberate and occur amidst children. It is aimed to hurt a person or to achieve power over that person. (1) It is when a person is harmed again and again by a single or group of people and it is an intentional use of power. (2+14) 2) Physical Bullying Physical bullying is when a person uses his bodily powers to hurt someone else. (4+3). Punching, kicking, hitting are all examples of physical bullying. (4+5) a) Charlie was…