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What is bullying?
Bullying is when someone keeps saying or doing things to have power over another person.
Some of the ways they bully other people are by:
Bullying is behaviour that makes the person being bullied feel afraid or uncomfortable. (Source: Police and Telecom anti-bullying campaign pamphlet). Bullying can take the form of physical abuse and standover tactics, or it can be less obvious, but just as harmful. It can involve gossip and suggestive comments, practical jokes, calling someone names or putting them down, swearing and yelling at them, or not talking to them and leaving them out. (Adapted from article in Sunday Star Times, Fear and Loathing at Work, October 18, 1998).
The word “bullying” is often used by schools even when serious assaults, harassment and intimidation have taken place. According to experienced teachers the name calling, “humiliation” (shaming) and exclusion from groups and games make up between 80 and 95 per cent of all bullying.
Australian research shows that boys will use physical violence and threats of violence more than girls will. Girls are more likely to make insulting remarks or to spread rumours or humiliate other girls.
Some of the ways they bully other people are by:
- Calling them names
- Saying or writing nasty things about them
- Making them feel uncomfortable or scared
- Leaving them out of activities
- Not talking to them
- Threatening them
- Taking or damaging their things
- Hitting or kicking them
- Making them do things they don’t want to do.
The word “bullying” is often used by schools even when serious assaults, harassment and intimidation have taken place. According to experienced teachers the name calling, “humiliation” (shaming) and exclusion from groups and games make up between 80 and 95 per cent of all bullying.
Australian research shows that boys will use physical violence and threats of violence more than girls will. Girls are more likely to make insulting remarks or to spread rumours or humiliate other girls.
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