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BullyingBullyingWhat What YOUYOU can do can do
to stop it…to stop it…AND why you should care!AND why you should care!
Presented by the SCPDSchool Resource Officers
2010
Definition by Webster:
1. To treat abusively2. To affect by means of force or
coercion
Three Components of Bullying
• Repeated• Intentional negative actions-
malicious intent• Imbalance of power
Forms of Bullying
83% of student indicate that watching bullying makes them feel uncomfortable.
If this were humans would it be so funny….?
PHYSICAL
• Hitting• Kicking• Spitting• Tripping• Shoving/pushing• “Bumping” into someone• Acts that hurt people
VERBAL
• Name calling• Teasing• Making offensive remarks• Threats, racial/sexual comments
(70% of bullying is verbal)
Words Hurt
INDIRECTION/VON-VERBAL
• Body language• Looks/stares• Gestures• Intimidating looks• Rolling eyes• More concealed-difficult for victim to
know who is doing it sometimes.
RELATIONAL/SOCIAL BULLYING
• Intentional behaviors to damage a person’s reputation
• Spreading Rumors/lies• Social exclusion• Threatening loss of relationships to
manipulate others• Gossip
An Example Of Social Exclusion
CYBER BULLYING
• Sending insulting messages by email texting, sexting, IM, posting on Youtube.com.
Why Do People Bully?!?Differences!
• Race• Gender• Physical and
Mental disabilities• Sexual orientation
Affects of Bullying
• Lowers self-esteem• Depression, loneliness and anxiety• Absenteeism-lower school
achievement• Physical illness• Thoughts of suicide• Desensitization-less affected by
violence, comments, ect. over time
Minnesota Bullying Facts
• 2007 Minnesota Student Survey indicated 29%of students reported they had been bullied once a week or more.
• The rate of bullying in Minnesota is almost Twice the national average.
Facts About Bullying
• An estimated 160,000 children miss school everyday out of fear of attack or intimidation by other students.
• One out of every 10 students who drops out of school does so because of repeated bullying.
• Victims of bullying are more likely to suffer physical problems such as common colds and coughs, sore throats, poor appetite, and night waking.
• Direct, physical bulling increases in elementary school, peaks in middle school and declines in high school. Verbal abuse, on the other had, remains constant.
• Bullying is best understood as a group phenomenon in which young people play a variety of roles.
“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but
because of the people who don't do anything about it.”
-Albert Einstein
Ryan’s Story
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke
Bullying stops in less than 10 seconds, 57% of the time when peers intervene on behalf of the victim.
Consequences
•You are responsible for hurting someone else’s feelings and possibly even their reaction to the bullying.•School consequences•Detension•Suspension•Expulsion
•Legal•Arrests for crimes such as harassment, assault, and disorderly conduct.
Bullycide Video
Questions•SRO Supervisor
Sergeant Mark MolineSCPD Office: 345-4415
Apollo High School and Westwood
Officer Tiffany Thompson SCPD Office: 345-4375
School Office: 253-1600 Ext #2909
Officer Tom MasteySCPD Office: 345-4342
School Office: 253-1600 Ext #2021
North Junior High and MadisonOfficer Nancy Lang
SCPD Office: 345-4339School Office: 251-2159 Ext
#4100
•South Junior High and TalahiOfficer Aaron StellmachSCPD Office: 345-4322
School Office: 251-1322 Ext #1710
Technical High School, Lincoln and City Life
Officer Christina ZabrockiSCPD Office: 345-4371
School Office: 252-2231 Ext #3126
Officer Tara GramsSCPD Office: 345-4326
School office: 252-2231 Ext #3119