BULLYING

By Cathlyn de Dios and Mary Yochabel Franco

Bullying Definition
Behavior that is intentional,
hurtful and repeated by one or
more persons.
Bullied students are teased,
harassed, and assaulted verbally or
physically.
Did you know?
The word Bully use to
mean the total opposite of
what it means now.

Five hundred years ago, it

meant friend, family
member or sweetheart.
Two Types of Bullying

Direct

Indirect
Direct
Physical hitting, kicking,
pushing, stealing, hiding or
ruining someones things.
Making someone do
something they dont want
to do.
Verbal name calling,
teasing, insulting, threats.
Indirect
Relationship Bullying
gossiping, spreading
rumors and lies about
someone.
Making someone feel
left out or rejected.
Bullying can be...
One person making fun of
another.
One person trying to beat
up another.
A group of people ganging
up against others.
How does it make you feel?

Depressed
Alone Hurt

Low Self-Esteem
Anxiety Scared
Does it have to be a part of
growing up?

No
Each and every person has the right to
feel safe in school and in life.
Who is a Bully?
Characteristics of a
Bully
Excited by their bullying behavior
Enjoy feelings of power and control
Enjoy causing pain
Can be a below average, average or
above average student
Lack compassion and empathy for
their targets
Can be all shapes and sizes
Who is a Target?
Reasons
Doesnt fit in
Physically weak
Minority
Facial appearance
Clothing
Emotional
Overweight
Good grades
Reasons
If you usually are alone and don't
have many friends.

If you don't have a lot of confidence

and don't stand up for yourself.
How to Deal with Bullying!!
Ways to avoid future
bullying
Dont bring expensive things or money to
school
Hang out with friends
Avoid unsupervised areas
Sit near the bus driver on the bus or walk with
a teacher to class
Dont walk alone and avoid places where
bullying occurs
Get funny
Dont act scared
No one can make you feel inferior without your
consent. Eleanor Roosevelt
ANOTHER TYPE OF BULLYING
 CYBER BULLYING IS
Being cruel to others by sending or
posting harmful
material using technological means;
an individual or group that uses
information and communication involving
electronic technologies to facilitate
deliberate and repeated harassment or
threat to an individual or group.

Also known as:

Electronic Bullying &
Online Social Cruelty
 CYBER BULLIES TECHNOLOGY

E-mail
Cell phones
Pager text messages
Instant messaging
Defamatory personal web sites
Defamatory online personal polling web sites
Chat rooms
 DIFFERENCES
CYBERBULLYING
BULLYING
ANONYMOUS
DIRECT
Occurs off
Occurs on
school property
school property
Good relationships with
Poor relationships teachers
with teachers
Fear loss of technology
Fear retribution privileges
Physical: Hitting, Punching &
Shoving
Verbal: Teasing, Name calling & Further under the radar than
Gossip bullying
Nonverbal: Use of gestures &
Exclusion Emotional reactions cannot
be determined
CYBER BULLY CATEGORIES
Inadvertent Power-Hungry
Role-play Want reaction
Responding Controlling with fear
May not realize its cyber Revenge of the
bullying Nerds
Vengeful Angel (Subset of Power-Hungry)
Righting wrongs Often Victims of school-yard
Protecting themselves bullies
Throw cyber-weight around
Mean Girls Not school-yard bullies like
Bored; Entertainment
Power-Hungry & Mean Girls
Ego based; promote own
social status
Often do in a group
Intimidate on and off line
Need others to bully; if
isolated, stop
 CYBER BULLYING TYPES
Flaming: Online fights using electronic messages
with angry and vulgar language

Harassment: Repeatedly sending offensive,

rude, and insulting messages

Cyber stalking: Repeatedly sending messages

that include threats of harm or are highly
intimidating. Engaging in other on-line activities
that make a person afraid for his or her own safety

Denigration: Dissing someone online. Sending

or posting cruel gossip or rumors about a person to
damage his or her reputation or friendships
 CYBER BULLYING TYPES
Impersonation: Pretending to be someone else and
sending or posting material online that makes that person
look bad, gets that person in trouble or danger, or damages
that persons reputation or friendships

Outing and Trickery: Sharing someones secret or

embarrassing information online. Tricking someone into
revealing secrets or embarrassing information which is then
shared online

Exclusion: Intentionally excluding someone from an on-

line group, like a buddy list
{Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D., Director of the Center for Safe and Responsible
Internet Use}
CYBER BULLYING PREVALENCE
Cyber bullying typically starts at about
9 years of age and usually ends after 14
years of age; after 14, it becomes cyber
or sexual harassment due to nature of
acts and age of actors {Aftab}

Affects 65-85% of kids in the core

group directly or indirectly through
close friends (Aftab)
 CYBER BULLYING
PREVALENCE
Aftabs statistics:
90% of middle school students they polled had their feelings
hurt online
65% of their students between 8-14 have been involved
directly or indirectly in a cyber bullying incident as the cyber
bully, victim or friend
50% had seen or heard of a website bashing of another student
75% had visited a website bashing
40% had their password stolen and changed by a bully
(locking them out of their own account) or sent
communications posing as them
Problems in studies: not assessing the real thing
i.e. Only 15% of parent polled knew what cyber bullying was
CYBER BULLYING PREVALENCE
In the 2003-04 school year, i-SAFE America surveyed students
from across the country on a new topic: Cyber Bullying

It is a topic that not many adults were talking about but one that is
all too familiar with students.

42% of kids have been bullied while online. 1 in 4 have had it happen
more than once.

35% of kids have been threatened online. Nearly 1 in 5 have had it

happen more than once.

21% of kids have received mean or threatening e-mail or other

messages.

58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them
online. More than 4 out of 10 say it has happened more than once.

53% of kids admit having said something mean or hurtful to another

person online. More than 1 in 3 have done it more than once.

58% have not told their parents or an adult about something mean or
hurtful that happened to them online.
Based on 2004 i-SAFE survey of 1,500 students grades 4-8 http://www.isafe.org
 CYBER BULLYING
LEGAL ISSUES
Who May Be Involved: School Limits:
Schools have policies against bullying
School Counselor
Civil Law Limits:
Principal Cyber bullying may also meet
standards for institutional torts
Resource Officer (wrongdoings)
Police
Defamation
Attorney (School or Private)
Material that Constitutes an
Superintendent Invasion of Privacy
(1st Amendment)

Internet Service Provider

Intentional Infliction of
Emotional Distress
 CYBER BULLYING LEGAL
ISSUES

Criminal Law Limits

The following kinds of speech can lead to arrest &
prosecution:
Making threats of violence to people or their
property
Engaging in coercion
Making obscene or harassing phone calls
Harassment or stalking
Hate or bias crimes
Creating or sending sexually explicit images of teens
Sexual exploitation
Taking a photo of someone in place where privacy
expected
General (Willard, 2005)
 CURRENT CYBER BULLYING
PROGRAMS & RESPONSES

What Everyone Needs to Know About

Cyber bullying (Aftab)

Education of Children:
All actions have consequences
Cyber bullying hurts
They are just being used and manipulated by cyber bully
Cyber bully and accomplices often become the target of
cyber bullying themselves
Care about others and stand up for whats right
CURRENT CYBER BULLYING
PROGRAMS & RESPONSES
Comprehensive Plan (Willard, 2005)
Schools
Policies concerning misuse of technology
Evaluate how staff is and can more effectively
monitor Internet use
Parents
Discuss cyber bullying
Supervise and increase effective monitoring of
Internet use
Since more adults supervise, more children will hide
activities, strategies needed to change social norms
in these on-line works, empower the victim with
knowledge how to prevent & respond, & to
discourage bullies from engaging in such activities
 CURRENT CYBER BULLYING
PROGRAMS & RESPONSES
Schools should:
Focus on values of kindness
and respectful human
relations
Enhancement of empathic
awareness
Develop effective problem
solving skills
Empowerment of bystanders