Bullying: It Has To Stop

 

Bullying
has become a major problem in our classrooms, playgrounds, workplaces,
and over the Internet.  But an increasing number of people and organizations have begun to fight back in order to educate as many people as possible about the devastating effects  bullying can have.   

 

February
27th is anti-bullying day in Canada - better known as Pink Shirt Day - a
day set aside to bring awareness to bullying issues and the devastating
effects it can have. 

 

What is bullying? 

Bullying
is a form of repeated,and aggressive behaviour directed at children,
teenagers, or adults. The behavior is intended to cause fear, distress,
or harm to another person's body, feelings, self-esteem or reputation. 
Bullying usually involves an imbalance of power. 

 

Bullying can come in a number of different forms 

 

Verbal bullying:
name calling, sarcasm, teasing, spreading rumours, threatening, making
negative references to a person's culture, ethnicity, race, religion,
gender or sexual orientation, unwanted sexual comments. 

Social bullying: mobbing,
scapegoating, excluding others from a group, humiliating others with
public gestures or graffiti intended to put others down. 

Physical bulling: hitting, poking, pinching, chasing, shoving, coercing, destroying or stealing belongings, unwanted sexual touching. 

Cyber bullying: using the Internet or text messaging to intimidate, put down, lie, spread rumours or make fun of someone. messaging to intimidate, put-down, spread rumours or make fun of someone. 

 

How common is bullying? 

According to the National Education Association, it
is estimated that 160, 000 children in the United States miss school
every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students.  

1 in 7 Students in Grades K-12 is either a  bully or a victim of bullying

56% of students have personally witnessed some type of bullying at school.

• 15% of all school absenteeism is directly related to fears of being bullied at school.

• 
  71% of students report incidents of bullying as a problem at their school.

• 282,000 students are physically attacked in secondary schools each month.

  

  In Canada

• Approximately one in 10 children have bullied others and as many as
  25% of children in grades four to six have been bullied. 

• A 2004 study
  published in the medical Journal of Pediatrics found that about one in
  seven Canadian children aged 11 to 16 are victims of bullying. 

• Studies
  have found bullying occurs once every seven minutes on the playground
  and once every 25 minutes in the classroom.
  

• In the majority of cases, bullying stops within 10 seconds when peers intervene, or do not support the bullying behaviour.
  

• 
  Students are most vulnerable to bullying during transitions from
  elementary to junior high school, and from junior to senior high school.
  
  

There is a correlation between increased supervision and decreased bullying. Bullies stop when adults are around.  

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