Bullying

Bullying in Schools 2011 Amanda Smith, Isabella Zallie, Emily Saypack

//All three photos represent an instance of bullying.//

I. Description of Problem or Issue
1. How does it affect the school and how does cyber bullying happen? 2. How does bullying affect the child? 3. How can bullying be prevented?

II. Research Summary
//**Isabella's research showed:**//

Students of all different ages have admitted to being a victim of cyber bullying. This takes place during the age span of 6-10th grade, although the most targeted area of this type of bullying happens around the age of 13-14 years old. In todays modern society, technology has been taken to a whole new level, which consequently gives kids the ability to do whatever they want, whenever they want to, without anybody knowing. Bullying was taken to the next level when "cyber bullying" first surfaced. Bullying is no longer about the strong picking on playground, but the constant bashing on the internet, especially on social networking sites. 42% of kids have been bullied online, while 1 in 4 have had it happen repeatedly. 21% of kids have received a mean or threatening email, 1 in 5 of those kids had it happen to them more than once. Although this type of bullying is outside of the school environment, it still affects the victims because they do not want to attend school to see the person who is in fact bullying them. The sad statistic is that 58% of kids have not told their parents about anything that has happened to them. It is hard to prevent this type of behavior because the access to technology is unlimited.

//**Amanda's research showed:**//

Ninety percent of students in grades four through eight report being victims of bullying. Bullying affects attendance, grades, and graduation. Each day, approximately160,000 students miss school in fear of being bullied.Ten percent of students who drop out of school do so because of repeated bullying. About 4,400 students every year commit suicide because of being bullied in school. This growing harmful problem in the United States affects kids of different ages in many different ways. It affects their self esteem, self worth, confidence, and many other crucial qualities for living a strong and healthy life. Many schools try interventions and programs to stop the bullying and help the victims but often times it is too late. Students who have been bullied often don't recover from the pain and hardships they have been put through. This affects them throughout the rest of their life, in school, grades-wise, jobs, and possibly even in future relationships.

//**Emily's research showed:**//

To prevent bullying it is important for teachers and school staff members to make it their goal and inform people about steps schools can take to respond to bullying and how effective the bullying prevention program. Research shows that the success of any program is 60% grounded in whether the same kinds of approaches are used at home. A written anti-bullying policy distributed to everyone in the school community can help to send the message that bullying incidents will be taken seriously. To lower extent of the bullying problem in their school, administrators can distribute surveys to students, school personnel, and parents. Once baseline data are collected, the school will be able to judge whether any of their changes are actually making a difference. One thing that not many people think about is that peers may actively or passively reinforce the aggressive behaviors of bullies through their attention and engagement, intervention approaches should be directed toward witnesses as well as direct participants.

III. Group Project Overview
1. Hand out a survey of questions referring to the topic of bullying. 2. Power point revealing statistics and facts dealing with bullying, different forms of bullying, and the victims. 3. A variety of videos and pictures will be shown to further demonstrate the subject of bullying to the students. 4. A discussion of the three topics talked about during the presentation to see the students outlook on each. 5. Have the students make a list made up of tips for kids on what they should do if they are bullied or cyberbullied.





V. Annotated Bibliography
//**Isabella Zallie's Bibliography**//

-How does it affect the school and how does cyber bullying happen?


 * //Amanda Smith's Annotated Bibliography//**

-How does bullying affect the child?

//**Emily's Annotated Bibliography**//

//**-**//How can bullying be prevented?