Bullyin

Bullyin

Bullying is a form of aggressive behavior, which may manifest as abusive treatment, the use of force to affect others, It may involve verbal harassment, physical assault towards a particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability. Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal, and physical.Bullying happens every day, Bullying effects everything. If you're getting bullied, may cause you to have low self esteem, you become shy and be a victim of depression. Using computers, Cell phones, social networks, and other technology to threaten or humiliate others can equal deadly consequences. Bullying is widespread and perhaps the most underreported safety problem on American school campuses.1 Contrary to popular belief, bullying occurs more often at school than on the way to and from there. We believe bullying to be a serious issue and worthy of reasonable attention, awareness and action. Schools, parents and most of all, our youth, need to be aware of appropriate behaviors for youth and how inappropriate behaviors should be addressed. The issue of bullying has also become a hot topic of conversation in the school safety field. In fact, bullying has been focused upon to a point which some believe has become overkill. A number of state legislatures have proposed laws requiring schools to have anti-bullying policies and programs, and more recently a federal legislator even proposed national legislation on bullying. "Bullying" often refers to verbal, physical, or other acts committed by a student to harass, intimidate, or cause harm to another student. The behaviors attributed to bullying may include verbal threats, menacing, harassment, intimidation, and assaults, disruption of the school environment and associated disorderly conduct, and related behaviors. When discussing "bullying," the focus should be on the inappropriate behaviors rather than a generic, undefined label of "bullying." Bullying is an important...