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How a teacher should treat to a bullying student, is it true to being hard?

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How a teacher should treat to a bullying student, is it true to being hard?

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Teacher should step in to the bullying moment, being a bystander may encourage the bully and upset the victim. Also, teacher should give emotional support to the victim student so that he/she won’t feel alone. The support of the teacher will not be enough probably though, with that reason the parents of both victim and bully must know the situation. The teacher is an example to the bystanders as well. He/she should show them how they can interfere to a bullying next time.

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This piece is to accompany Bullying Basics. Some anti-bullying policies actually do more harm than good. Educators can use the following tips to intervene appropriately when bullying occurs.

Stop the bullying immediately.

Stand between the bullied student and the bully(ies), blocking eye contact. Don't send any bystanders away. To avoid escalating the tension, wait until later to sort out the facts. Talk to the parties involved separately once they are calm.

Refer to school rules regarding bullying.

Speak in a matter-of-fact tone of voice to describe what you heard or saw. Let all students know bullying is always unacceptable.

Support the bullied child.

Do this in a way that allows him or her dignity and to feel safe from retaliation. Make a point to see the child later in private if he or she is upset. Increase supervision to assure bullying is not repeated.

Offer guidance to bystanders.

Let them know how they might appropriately intervene or get help next time. Tell them you noticed their inaction or that you're pleased with the way they tried to help.

Impose immediate consequences.

Wait until all parties have calmed down. Do not require that students apologize or make amends that may be insincere. The consequences should be logical and connected to the offense. A first step could be taking away social privileges i.e. recess or lunch in the cafeteria.

Notify colleagues and parents.

Let the bully know he or she is being watched.

Follow up and intervene as necessary.

Support the bullied child and the bully, enabling them to vent feelings and recognize their own behavior. The bully may need to learn new methods of using his or her power and influence in the classroom.

Do not confuse bullying with conflict.

Bullying is a form of victimization, and addressing it as a "conflict" downplays the negative behavior and the seriousness of the effects. Educators should strive to send the message that "no one deserves to be bullied," and to let the bully know the behavior is wholly inappropriate.

Do not use peer mediation.

It can be very upsetting for a child who has been bullied to face his or her tormentor in mediation. Giving both parties an equal voice can empower the bully and make the bullied student feel worse. In addition, there is no evidence that peer mediation is effective in stopping bullying.

Do not use group treatment for bullies.

Some schools use therapeutic strategies such as anger management, skill-building, empathy-building and self-esteem building to reach the bully. In practice, group members can actually reinforce each others' bullying and antisocial behavior.

Adapted from "Misdirections in Bullying Prevention and Intervention," and other tip sheets by Stop Bullying Now!, a website dedicated to helping youth "take a stand" and "lend a hand."

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This piece is to accompany Bullying Basics. Some anti-bullying policies actually do more harm than good. Educators can use the following tips to intervene appropriately when bullying occurs. Stand between the bullied student and the bully(ies), blocking eye contact. Don't send any bystanders away.

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What can students personally do to protect themselves from bullying?

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What can students personally do to protect themselves from bullying?

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Firstly, to protect yourself from bullying you should understand it truly and properly. So, the first rule: investigate and research bullying with details. For another step, try to have wholesome relationships with other students. This attitude decreases the possibilty of being bullied and the effects of it. The third rule: filter your environment. If you go into the places which include rude students or as they called themselves “tough guys”, you should prepare yourself for negative comments. Seek for someone to defend you like a teacher, parent etc. Also, find a way to defend yourself as well. For instance, you can use jokes or behave as you don’t care to repel bullying.

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Understanding

Youth often ask: "What can I do to help stop bullying?" and "How can I protect myself from being bullied?" These are difficult questions to answer, and sometimes parents, teachers, and principals struggle to address them. 1 Findings from some recent studies of new and innovative strategies can help youth to protect themselves from bullying. While considering the important role of parents, educators, and adults at school, this summary covers protective factors to prevent bullying as well as innovative strategies for youth that can reduce the likelihood of being bullied.

Protective Factors

One of the best ways that youth can protect themselves against being bullied is through healthy friendships and positive relationships with classmates. 2 A wealth of research indicates that having a healthy peer network protects against being bullied and also helps reduce the negative effects of being bullied, such as feeling depressed and anxious. 3 In addition, having positive peer relationships also can increase the likelihood that peer bystanders will step in to intervene and help stop bullying when it occurs. 4

Research also indicates that having positive relationships with teachers is associated with a reduced risk of being bullied 5 and that hostile teacher-student relationships are associated with higher levels of bullying 6. So it is important for youth to seek out and maintain both healthy peer and adult relationships to reduce the likelihood that they will be bullied.

Youth can also reduce their exposure to environments in which bullying frequently occurs such as areas of schools with poor adult supervision or in social media settings where negative and hurtful communication occurs. In those instances where youth are in these environments, they should take extra caution, such as walking between classes with friends or a supportive peer, and protecting their identity online and the information they share electronically.

New and Innovative Strategies

Although research on this topic is emerging, efforts to deflect bullying may also be effective in some situations. Deflecting is doing something to take away the power of bullying and make the behavior less effective. For example, youth with strong social skills can use humor to deflect bullying. One study found that using humor or "telling a joke" was a more effective response to bullying than some of the more typical responses, like pretending not to be bothered, depersonalizing, retaliating, telling the aggressor to stop, appealing to the aggressor's empathy, walking away, telling an adult at home, telling an adult at school, and telling a friend.

Here are a few ways that have been shown to be effective in responding to bullying and cyberbullying that youth can use:

Specific Strategies Youth Can Use to Deal with Bullying

Seek assistance from an adult, friend, or classmate when a potentially threatening situation occurs.

Be assertive (not aggressive, fighting, or teasing back) when possible.

Use humor to deflect a potential threatening situation.

Avoid unsafe places or walk away before a potential bullying encounter occurs.

Agree with or "own" a belittling comment to defuse it.

Walk with friends or a small group of friendly peers.

Use positive self-statements to maintain positive self-esteem during an incident.

Avoid getting emotionally upset when bullying occurs, as this may embolden the person bullying.

Strategies Youth Can Use to Prevent Cyberbullying

Never accept friend or network requests from unfamiliar people.

Use the "mom" principle: Do not post or share photographs or movies that you would not be willing to share with your mother, father, or another important caregiver.

Follow the "forever" principle: Assume that everything you put online will be there forever.

Follow the "no privacy" principle: Assume that everyone can access information about you in cyberspace.

Follow the "ex" principle: Would you be okay with your ex-boyfriends or girlfriends having access to content that you are planning to share?

Block threatening or questionable people from seeing your profile and personal information.

Do not post provocative, scandalous, or inflammatory remarks online.

Do not reply to or retaliate against incidents of cyberbullying.

Regularly change passwords to sites and applications, and immediately delete profiles that have been hacked.

Avoid sites, networks, and applications that have poor security, provide easy access to personal information, or encourage interactions among strangers.

Ensure that information is approved before it is posted or shared socially.

Limit involvement in social networking to a few familiar sites.

Avoid joining sites that do not have adequate privacy settings.

Never engage in sexting (sharing pictures or messages that have private sexual content).

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How Youth Can Protect Themselves From Bullying

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Youth often ask: "What can I do to help stop bullying?" and "How can I protect myself from being bullied?" These are difficult questions to answer, and sometimes parents, teachers, and principals struggle to address them. 1 Findings from some recent studies of new and innovative strategies can help youth to protect themselves from bullying.

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Bullies in general are impulsive and popular. They are mostly physically stronger than their victims and reluctant to follow the rules. They don't have a sense of respect and empathy.

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While some kids turn into bullies during preschool, other kids don't start bullying until the teen years. To the surprise of many parents and teachers, sometimes, even the good kids can start bullying.

Learning about the common characteristics of a teenage bully can help you identify the kids who are at risk of becoming a bully. It can also help you better understand why some kids turn into bullies and others don't.

While one teenage bully may primarily attack people online, others may bully their peers at school. Despite whatever method they use to torment their targets, research shows most teenage bullies share these characteristics and exhibit these behaviors:

Impulsive

Anger management problems

Tries to control other people, rather than inspiring others to follow

Easily frustrated and annoyed

Lacks empathy, isn't sympathetic to anyone's needs or desires but their own

Blames a victim for his own behavior by saying things like, "If that geek didn't look so stupid, I wouldn't have to hit him."

Difficulty following rules and little respect for authority

View violence in a positive way, such as a form of entertainment or a good way to get needs met

Boys who bully tend to be physically stronger than other children

Girls who bully tend to be perceived as popular

There is no single cause of bullying among children. A host of different factors can place a child at risk for bullying his or her peers.

However, it has been found that children who bully are more likely than their non-bullying peers to come from homes with certain characteristics. Here are some common family risk factors for bullying:

Lack of Warmth and Involvement on the Part of Parents: This can be because the child lives with a single parent who is not at home or is too tired to give time and attention to a child. It may also result in homes where parents are apathetic about their kids and lack the desire to be involved in their activities.

Overly Permissive Parenting: When children are given few rules and little guidance, they may try to control their peers. Permissive parents don't set limits and they often make children feel entitled.

Lack of Parental Supervision: Without appropriate supervision, teens have to fend for themselves. They may find that being mean, bossy, and demanding gets their needs met temporarily. But since bullies struggle to establish healthy relationships, their behavior backfires in the long-term.

Harsh, Physical Discipline: Parents who use corporal punishment, or those who instill consequences that border on abusive, may raise children to bully others. Teenagers who have been shamed often want to shame others.

Chaos and Conflict: Children who witness bullying in the home or those who are bullied by siblings are more likely to bully others. Constant chaos in the home, such as frequent moves, may also contribute to bullying.

Bullying may stem from underlying psychological issues. Mental health issues, like anxiety, or a behavior disorder, like oppositional defiant disorder, may contribute to bullying. Other teens begin to bully after they've been abused or experienced a traumatic event.

While there is much discussion about what happens to young people are victims of bullying, there's less discussion about the consequences bullies receive. While many of them experience individual consequences, society as a whole can pay a big price for children who bully.

Children who frequently bully their peers are more likely than others to:

Get into frequent fights

Be injured in a fight

Vandalize or steal property

Drink alcohol

Smoke

Be truant from school

Drop out of school

Carry a weapon

If your child is a bully, address the issues head-on. Provide increased supervision, set clear limits, and enforce consequences.

Talk to your teen about bullying. Discuss the consequences it can have on other kids as well as the potential legal, social, and educational consequences it can have on your teen.

If bullying persists, get professional help. A mental health professional may be able to rule out an underlying mental health issue and can teach your teen the social skills he needs to get his needs met without picking on other kids.

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The Most Common Characteristics of a Teenage Bully

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While some kids turn into bullies during preschool, other kids don't start bullying until the teen years. To the surprise of many parents and teachers, sometimes, even the good kids can start bullying. Learning about the common characteristics of a teenage bully can help you identify the kids who are at risk of becoming a bully.

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What kind of people are usually the victims of bullying?

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What kind of people are usually the victims of bullying?

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Bullying victims at large are defined as "different" from the rest. This might be because of their religion, their cultural background, their disorder if they have it, or even because of their high success at school. Most of them have over-protective parents, which is the reason some of them don't know how to handle the situation by themselves. Commonly they are shy or introverts.

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Parents often worry about whether or not their child will be bullied at school, on the sports field, or in the neighborhood. While any student can be the victim of bullying, some children are more likely to encounter the problem.

Here are the major characteristics that make a child more vulnerable to bullies.

Insecure Personality

Children who appear submissive, passive, and anxious are more likely to be bullied than peers who do not exhibit these traits.﻿﻿ Bullied children also tend to be insecure and to cry frequently-even before bullying occurs.

Some researchers believe that a child's lack of assertiveness and security might serve as a cue to bullies that they are the "perfect victim."﻿﻿

There's also evidence that kids who experience depression and bodily symptoms of stress (such as headaches or stomachaches) might be more likely to be bullied. These problems can also be caused or made worse by bulling.﻿﻿

Lower Peer Acceptance

Victims of bullies may have few or no friends-the common depiction in TV and film is the child who sits alone at lunch. A child who is the target of a bully is less likely to have a wide circle of friends compared to their peers who are not bullied.

Kids who are bullied are often not accepted by other children.﻿﻿ The negative peer response typically emerges long before bullying begins, with children experiencing peer rejection and being left out of social situations.

Perceived as "Different"

Children who are seen by their peers as being "different" in some way are more likely to be bullied.﻿﻿ Children with special needs and learning disabilities are disproportionately affected by bullying.﻿﻿

Kids who stand out from the crowd for any reason can easily become the target of bullies. A few examples of reasons kids are bullied by peers include:

Thy are from an ethnic, cultural, or religious minority

They are LGBTQ

They have a physical or mental disorder

They are smart or have a special talent

Physical Appearance

Research has found that kids who are perceived as being larger or smaller than peers are also at an increased risk for bullying-even if they are not objectively under- or overweight.﻿﻿ Kids who reach puberty earlier (or later) than peers are also at risk for bullying.

Overprotective Parents

Parents of bullying victims tend to overprotect the child. These parents tend to avoid having disagreements with their children and try to create a sense of harmony in the household. While they have good intentions, these behaviors can be unhelpful.

Parents of kids who are bullied might become socially over-involved to make up for peer rejection, but this can actually be another reason a child is picked on.﻿﻿

A Word From Verywell

Victims of bullying shouldn't be blamed, but understanding what makes some kids more likely to be targeted by bullying is important for parents. You might need to step in and talk to your child's school or keep an eye on their behavior, but the main goal should be empowerment. When you recognize why your child is getting picked on, you can support them in making positive changes.

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Some Children Are More Likely to Be Victimized Than Others

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Parents often worry about whether or not their child will be bullied at school, on the sports field, or in the neighborhood. While any student can be the victim of bullying, some children are more likely to encounter the problem. Here are the major characteristics that make a child more vulnerable to bullies.

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How to know if someone around you is being bullied at school?

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How to know if someone around you is being bullied at school?

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Bullying has both physical and psychological effects on the victims.

If they have injuries that they can't/ don't want to explain,

If they come home with torn clothes, books or they have personal belongings that are constantly lost,

If their school grades dropped suddenly,

If they are faking illnesses in order to skip school,

If they have sleeping problems that occurred without explanation,

If they started to skip their meals or binge eating all of a sudden,

If they feel like they are worthless and depressed,

And if they become uncommunicative with their friends and family members who once they were close with

There might be chances that they are being bullied at school, you should give attention to what they are trying to say and check on them.

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There are many warning signs that may indicate that someone is affected by bullying-either being bullied or bullying others. Recognizing the warning signs is an important first step in taking action against bullying. Not all children who are bullied or are bullying others ask for help.

It is important to talk with children who show signs of being bullied or bullying others. These warning signs can also point to other issues or problems, such as depression or substance abuse. Talking to the child can help identify the root of the problem.

Signs a Child Is Being Bullied

Look for changes in the child. However, be aware that not all children who are bullied exhibit warning signs.

Some signs that may point to a bullying problem are:

Unexplainable injuries

Lost or destroyed clothing, books, electronics, or jewelry

Frequent headaches or stomach aches, feeling sick or faking illness

Changes in eating habits, like suddenly skipping meals or binge eating. Kids may come home from school hungry because they did not eat lunch.

Difficulty sleeping or frequent nightmares

Declining grades, loss of interest in schoolwork, or not wanting to go to school

Sudden loss of friends or avoidance of social situations

Feelings of helplessness or decreased self esteem

Self-destructive behaviors such as running away from home, harming themselves, or talking about suicide

If you know someone in serious distress or danger, don't ignore the problem. Get help right away.

Signs a Child is Bullying Others

Kids may be bullying others if they:

Get into physical or verbal fights

Have friends who bully others

Are increasingly aggressive

Get sent to the principal's office or to detention frequently

Have unexplained extra money or new belongings

Blame others for their problems

Don't accept responsibility for their actions

Are competitive and worry about their reputation or popularity

Why don't kids ask for help?

Statistics from the 2018 Indicators of School Crime and Safety - PDF show that only 20% of school bullying incidents were reported. Kids don't tell adults for many reasons:

Bullying can make a child feel helpless. Kids may want to handle it on their own to feel in control again. They may fear being seen as weak or a tattletale.

Kids may fear backlash from the kid who bullied them.

Bullying can be a humiliating experience. Kids may not want adults to know what is being said about them, whether true or false. They may also fear that adults will judge them or punish them for being weak.

Kids who are bullied may already feel socially isolated. They may feel like no one cares or could understand.

Kids may fear being rejected by their peers. Friends can help protect kids from bullying, and kids can fear losing this support.

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Recognize the warning signs for bullying to help prevent it.

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How long the effects of bullying can last in a victim's life?

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How long the effects of bullying can last in a victim's life?

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Bullying can be a student's worst nightmare. It can cause reluctance about going to school, it can affect academic success, it can damage self-confidence, and so on. However, these negative outcomes can have impacts on his/her life even after graduating from school. A study showed that the victims can have depression, anxiety at age of 25. On top of these mental problems, it showed that bullying can even lead to unemployment, or it can decrease the income of those who are working.

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Victims of bullying in secondary school have dramatically increased chances of mental health problems and unemployment in later life.

New research led by Lancaster University Management School researchers reveals stark consequences a decade on for pupils subjected to bullying. Those who are the victims of persistent or violent bullying suffer the worst consequences.

Emma Gorman and Professor Ian Walker, of the Lancaster University Department of Economics, along with research partners Silvia Mendolia, of the University of Wollongong, and Colm Harmon and Anita Staneva, of the University of Sydney, found being bullied in school increases the extent of mental health problems at age 25 by 40%.

It also increases the probability of being unemployed at age 25 by about 35%; and for those in work, it reduces their income by around 2%.

Co-author Emma Gorman said: "Bullying is widespread in schools, and many studies document a negative relationship between bullying and educational outcomes. Bullying is also an important policy issue because of concern that in addition to educational outcomes, being bullied may lead to negative impacts on young people's lives in the long-term, such as low self-esteem, mental health conditions and poorer job prospects.

"Our research shows that being bullied has negative impact on important long-term outcomes, especially unemployment, income and ill-health. Being bullied causes detrimental effects on children's lives not just in the short-term, but for many years after. These are more pronounced among pupils who experience persistent bullying, or violent types of bullying.

"Our findings suggest that a more targeted approach to reduce the most extreme forms of bullying may be warranted."

The research, presented at the Royal Economic Society's annual conference at the University of Warwick, analysed confidential data on more than 7,000 school pupils aged 14-16 from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England.

About half of pupils involved, who were interviewed at regular intervals until they were 21, and once again at age 25, reported experiencing some type of bullying between the ages of 14 and 16. The information - reported by both the child and parents - recorded how frequently the children were bullied, and what type of bullying they experienced.

Examples of bullying within the study include being called names; being excluded from social groups; being threatened with violence; and experiencing violence.

As well as the consequences later in life, the research shows bullying affects the academic achievement of the victims while they are in school, and beyond into further and higher education.

Bullying reduces the probability of gaining five or more GCSEs at grades A*-C by 10%, and decreases the probability of staying on to take A-levels by 10%.
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School bullying increases chances of mental health issues and unemployment in later life

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© ID 96531986 © Antonio Guillem | Dreamstime.comVictims of bullying in secondary school have dramatically increased chances of mental health problems and unemployment in later life. New research led by Lancaster University Management School researchers reveals stark consequences a decade on for pupils subjected to bullying.

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There are bullies who are insecure or has low self-esteem but they are not always necessarily that way. They can be successful, confident, and popular who dominate others. In that case, the reason behind bullying can simply be a result of a lack of empathy.

(https://www.parentingscience.com/pure-bullies.html)

How effective can the intervention of a teacher be, do students ask their teachers for help?

We know that most of the time, teachers are the ones who can intervene in bullying at school. However, the students’ negative experiences lead them not to report the situation to the teachers. More than half of middle school students and high school students think that the intervention of teachers worsened the bullying situation. (Bradshaw, Sawyer, and O’Brennan, 2007)

A study (Rigby and Barnes, 2002) showed that only 27% of    33,236 Australian elementary and secondary students had informed their teacher about their bullying situation. Moreover, %16 of the students who reported the bullying stated that the bullying got worse, and %28 stated that there was no change.
(Yoon, J., & Bauman, S. (2014). Teachers: A Critical But Overlooked Component of Bullying Prevention and Intervention. Theory Into Practice, 53(4), 308–314. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405841.2014.947226)

While the effectiveness of methods that teachers use when it comes to dealing with bullying can be discussed, students don’t often consider consulting them as a resort (probably because of reasons that are similar to the ones I mentioned above). A study showed that despite talking to the school counselor about bullying is effective, it is never used. Similarly, asking a teacher for help is effective but used very little.
(Murray-Harvey, R., Skrzypiec, G., & Slee, P. T. (2012). Effective and Ineffective Coping With Bullying Strategies as Assessed by Informed Professionals and Their Use by Victimised Students. Australian Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 22(1), 122–138. https://doi.org/10.1017/jgc.2012.59)

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What traits do bullies have in common?

What kind of people are usually the victims of bullying?

How to know if someone around you is being bullied at school?

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How long the effects of bullying can last in a victim's life?

Are bullies insecure about themselves?

How effective can the intervention of a teacher be, do students ask their teachers for help?

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How to intervene bullying as a bystander?

What should schools do to stop bullying?

What are the bullying statistics around the world?

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What can students personally do to protect themselves from bullying?

How a teacher should treat to a bullying student, is it true to being hard?

What are the reasons that impel a student to bullying?

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What is the difference between conflict and bullying?

Are there differences in the bullying experiences of girls and boys?

Why don't children tell when they are bullied?

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What should schools do to stop bullying?

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What should schools do to stop bullying?

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Schools play a vital role in bullying. Social-emotional learning should be offered by schools that can support students to cope with bullying. The principle and priority of schools must also be to construct healthy relationships between learners. Students must learn how to identify, report, and refuse a bully when they encounter it.

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How to intervene bullying as a bystander?

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How to intervene bullying as a bystander?

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First of all, bullying can not be ignored, otherwise it would just empower the bully to believe that what they do is appropriate. Tell them to stop. Get the victim away from the bully and make them feel secure. And it's also necessary to offer support for the bully. Offering help to reason their behavior and how to fix it can be crucial.

(What to Say to a Bully: 31 Expert Recommendations, 2019)

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What are the bullying statistics around the world?

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What are the bullying statistics around the world?

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One-third of teenagers witness bullying around the world. Boys experience bullying more than girls with rates of 32% to 28%. Teenagers who have immigrated to the country have more experience than teenagers born locally.

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Almost one-third of young teens worldwide have recently experienced bullying, according to data released for the first time by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), which is the official data source for the Sustainable Development Goal on education.
The new data show that bullying affects children everywhere, across all regions and countries of different income levels. They were collected from in-school surveys that track the physical and emotional health of youth. The Global School Health Survey (GSHS) focuses on children aged 13 to 17 years in low-income regions. Similarly, the Health Behavior in School-Age Children (HBSC) targets young people aged 11 to 15 years in 42 countries, primarily in Europe and North America. Bullying refers to violence between peers/students which is characterised as "intentional and aggressive behavior occurring repeatedly where there is a real or perceived power imbalance."

"Data are the key to change," said Silvia Montoya, UIS Director. "They can reveal who is affected by bullying and point the way to better programming by both national governments and international and non-government organizations. Over time, trends can point out whether interventions are working. Ultimately, the more knowledge we have, the more we are able to channel resources to children who need help the most."

Globally boys are slightly more at risk of bullying in schools than girls. The data - which do not include sexual or other forms of gender-based violence - show that more than 32% of boys experience bullying in school, compared to 28% of girls.

Yet when looking at the 10 countries where children report the highest incidences of bullying, the median rates tell a slightly different story. In these 10 countries, a staggering 65% of girls and 62% of boys report bullying, revealing that where bullying is most pervasive, girls are more widely impacted.
External factors also have a role in bullying
Socioeconomic and immigrant status also play a part in bullying, according to the HBSC data on children from Europe and North America. In these regions, socioeconomic status - based on parents' wealth, occupation and education level - is the most likely predictor of bullying: two out of five poor youth are negatively impacted. This compares to one-quarter of teens from wealthier families.

Finally, also based on the HBSC data, immigrant children tend to be more vulnerable to bullying than their locally-born counterparts. As migration around the world reaches new peaks, it is worth asking whether bullying will further complicate the ability of this vulnerable group to learn.

UNESCO will release a short report on 8 October 2018, looking deeper at a large number of international data sources on bullying and other forms of school violence, and revealing trends in prevalence over time.

A full version of the report, available in January 2019, will present an analysis of effective national responses to school violence and bullying through country case studies. Together with the annual compilation and analysis of global data on bullying by UIS, these reports will help countries understand the scale of school violence and bullying, and put in place the policies and actions needed to ensure that all children learn in safe, supportive and inclusive school environments, as agreed in the SDG4 framework.
What are the main takeaways of the data?

One-third of youth globally experience bullying in school.

Boys experience slightly higher rates of bullying than girls overall, but in countries where bullying is most pervasive, girls are more vulnerable.

Low socioeconomic status is the main predictor of whether young teens in wealthy countries will experience bullying in schools.

Immigrant youth in wealthy countries are more likely to experience bullying in schools than locally-born youth.

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For more information, contact:

Amy Otchet, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Montreal (Canada), a.otchet@unesco.org, tel: +1 514 343 7933

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New data reveal that one out of three teens is bullied worldwide

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Almost one-third of young teens worldwide have recently experienced bullying, according to data released for the first time by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), which is the official data source for the Sustainable Development Goal on education. The new data show that bullying affects children everywhere, across all regions and countries of different income levels.

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Why don't children tell when they are bullied?

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Why don't children tell when they are bullied?

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Bullying is about power and control. Because of that, being bullied makes kids feel weak. For many, this builds some feelings like shame and embarrassment. It also reduces kids self-esteem. And the other reason is they worry about getting bullied again and again if they report. So they stay quiet.

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Students who are bullied in school begin to lose their motivation to go to school.

Some of the victims of bullying are excluded by their peers in school.

Victims may become depressed because of the bullying they are exposed to.

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Students who get bullied can be bullies as well.

A student who is bullying another may not be doing it consciously.

Bullying can take different forms, such as psychological bullying, physical bullying, or even cyberbullying.

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Not intervening in bullying as a bystander means contributing to the situation.

Bullying can affect academic success.

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Bullied students can have some difficulties about making new friendships.

Being bullied might trigger some psychological issues in  the students.

There can be communication problems in bullied students because of the fear of being judged.

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Are there differences in the bullying experiences of girls and boys?

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Are there differences in the bullying experiences of girls and boys?

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There are differences in the way boys and girls bully people within their own gender and outside of it. Boys prefer direct methods. They attack physically and they want to be alone with that person they want to hurt when they’re bullying. So they are more prone to physical bullying than girls. On the other hand, girls prefer social bullying, like gossiping or spreading rumors, and they do it within a group. Sometimes they even encourage their friends to join in. So girls are more vulnerable to emotional and social bullying. But research shows that ‘’ Girls and boys exhibit similar levels of electronic, verbal, and social bullying.’’

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What is the difference between conflict and bullying ?

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What is the difference between conflict and bullying ?

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Sometimes people think that bullying and conflict are the same thing, but they are not. We experience conflict in everyday life because of the complexity of relationships but we do not feel unsafe or threatened. İt is simply a disagreement. Especially when children find themselves in a conflict, they want to overcome the problem quickly because they want to continue playing. On the other hand, bullying is a behavior that a person aims to hurt and humiliate the other. When they figure out that they can hurt someone, they continue. So bullying is lasting, purposeful, and unfair. Because one side is more powerful than the other.

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Bullying and Conflict – What’s the Difference? | PACERTalks About Bullying