What   IS  Bullying?

  • Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance.
  • The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time.  
  • It’s bullying when someone uses words or actions to hurt or harm someone else and that person has a hard time defending themselves.
  • Name calling, tripping someone, laughing at them, leaving them out, ignoring them on purpose are all acts of bullying.

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BULLYING RESOURCES

Stop Bullying
PACER's National Bullying Prevention Center
National Education Association 
​The Bully Project

What  Is  Cyberbullying?

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  • Using technology—internet, email, cell phones, social media, pictures—
    ​to hurt or harm someone else. 
  • This Includes:
  • Sending mean text messages;
  • Posting statements online that are unkind or not true;
  • Sending or posting pictures that are not yours to share;
  • Making negative comments online about someone; and
  • Agreeing with someone who posts something hurtful.

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Who  GeTS  BULLIED?

How  can  you  help?
  • Anyone can be a victim of bullying

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  • If you see someone being bullied, speak up!
  • When students are willing to say they think something is wrong, they can make a difference.
  • Let others know that you don’t accept bullying at your school, and others will be more willing to speak up, too.
  • If you see bullying, you can tell a grown-up. Telling is not “snitching” or “tattling”. It’s okay to tell. Reach out!
  • Tell the kid who is being bullied that he or she doesn’t deserve to be treated that way. Nobody does.
  • Ask friends to join you in being a kid against bullying.
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THe  Facts

ACER's National Bullying Prevention Center Reports:
  • Nearly 1 in 3 students (27.8%) report being bullied during the school year (National Center for Educational Statistics, 2013).
  • 19.6% of high school students in the US report being bullied at school in the past year. 14.8% reported being bullied online (Center for Disease Control, 2014).
  • 64 percent of children who were bullied did not report it; only 36 percent reported the bullying (Petrosina, Guckenburg, DeVoe, and Hanson, 2010). 
  • More than half of bullying situations (57 percent) stop when a peer intervenes on behalf of the student being bullied (Hawkins, Pepler, and Craig, 2001). 
  • The reasons for being bullied reported most often by students were looks (55%), body shape (37%), and race (16%) (Davis and Nixon, 2010).