According to www.stopbullying.gov, Bullying is defined as unwanted aggressive behavior among in schools at a aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance with others that are bullying them. The behavior with this kids is unbelievable what this bullys are doing to the kids that do nothing at all they don’t deserve to get bully. Such as an physical strength access to embarrassing information or popularity to the control or harm others. . verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things. Verbal bullying includes . teasing . name calling . inappropriate sexual comments . tauning . social bullying sometimes referred to as relational bullying involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships. Social bullying includes . telling other children not to be friends with someone . spreading rumors about someone . physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Physical bullying includes . hitting/kicking/pinching . taking or breaking someone’s things . making mean or rude hand gestures The website www.stopbullying.gov goes on to explain, “while most reported bullying happens in the school building a significant percentage also happens in places like on the playground or the bus. It can also happen travelling to or from school in the youth’s neighborhood.” While most reported bullying happens in the school building a significant percentage also happens in places like on the playground or the bus. …show more content…
It can also happen travelling to or from school in the youth’s neighborhood. There are several different types of bullying. The different types are cyber, verbal, physical, and social. Cyber bullying is verbal or sharing pictures with the whole school-behind people’s backs, that everyone can see. Verbal bullying is when they bust on people and when the bully says words that can hurt people’s feelings. For example, when a bully makes fun of people’s clothes that they wear. The bully thinks that they are better than everyone because they may have better clothes. Physical bullying is considered when the bully pushes others around, make aggressive threats, jumping someone, and getting into unfair fights. Lastly, social bullying is ignoring someone, spreading rumors about them, spreading around other people business, or even worse when a bully embarrasses someone in public. When it comes to bullying, it can take happen everywhere. The most common places are in the hallways at school, in class (especially when there’s a substitute teacher), in the lunchroom, and in the stairwell. School is not the only place bullying can happen. It also happens outside of school in places like neighborhood streets, at dismissal and before school, parks and online. However, “bullying more often takes place at school than on the way to and from school.” (http://www.popcenter.org) That is why schools need to make their bullying policy a lot stricter and help stop bullying. At Penn Treaty bullying is a big problem. A lot of times it begins with play fighting. Then it escalates to real fighting that then gets you in trouble. You will get a suspended if you mess with people that don’t mess back and if you play fight with people with others but you both will get a suspended for play fighting Each year 160,000 kids stay home because they get bully everyday. Bully victims get pushed around and get spit on while in school. At Penn Treaty (my school) school, bullies take your stuff and throw it around. Even worse, they try and take things of of you, like your sneakers and try to hide them and toss them around. The bullies pretty much try to start fight for no reason. According to www.popcenter.org, bullying by boys declines substantially after age 15 and bullying by girls begins declining a lot at age 14. “Consistently, studies indicate that boys are more likely to bully than