BullyingBullyingWhat What YOUYOU can do can do

to stop it…to stop it…AND why you should care!AND why you should care!

Presented by the SCPDSchool Resource Officers

2010

Definition by Webster:

1. To treat abusively2. To affect by means of force or

coercion

Three Components of Bullying

• Repeated• Intentional negative actions-

malicious intent• Imbalance of power

Forms of Bullying

83% of student indicate that watching bullying makes them feel uncomfortable.

If this were humans would it be so funny….?

PHYSICAL

• Hitting• Kicking• Spitting• Tripping• Shoving/pushing• “Bumping” into someone• Acts that hurt people

VERBAL

• Name calling• Teasing• Making offensive remarks• Threats, racial/sexual comments

(70% of bullying is verbal)

Words Hurt

INDIRECTION/VON-VERBAL

• Body language• Looks/stares• Gestures• Intimidating looks• Rolling eyes• More concealed-difficult for victim to

know who is doing it sometimes.

RELATIONAL/SOCIAL BULLYING

• Intentional behaviors to damage a person’s reputation

• Spreading Rumors/lies• Social exclusion• Threatening loss of relationships to

manipulate others• Gossip

An Example Of Social Exclusion

CYBER BULLYING

• Sending insulting messages by email texting, sexting, IM, posting on Youtube.com.

Why Do People Bully?!?Differences!

• Race• Gender• Physical and

Mental disabilities• Sexual orientation

Affects of Bullying

• Lowers self-esteem• Depression, loneliness and anxiety• Absenteeism-lower school

achievement• Physical illness• Thoughts of suicide• Desensitization-less affected by

violence, comments, ect. over time

Minnesota Bullying Facts

• 2007 Minnesota Student Survey indicated 29%of students reported they had been bullied once a week or more.

• The rate of bullying in Minnesota is almost Twice the national average.

Facts About Bullying

• An estimated 160,000 children miss school everyday out of fear of attack or intimidation by other students.

• One out of every 10 students who drops out of school does so because of repeated bullying.

• Victims of bullying are more likely to suffer physical problems such as common colds and coughs, sore throats, poor appetite, and night waking.

• Direct, physical bulling increases in elementary school, peaks in middle school and declines in high school. Verbal abuse, on the other had, remains constant.

• Bullying is best understood as a group phenomenon in which young people play a variety of roles.

“The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but

because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

-Albert Einstein

Ryan’s Story

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

-Edmund Burke

Bullying stops in less than 10 seconds, 57% of the time when peers intervene on behalf of the victim.

Consequences

•You are responsible for hurting someone else’s feelings and possibly even their reaction to the bullying.•School consequences•Detension•Suspension•Expulsion

•Legal•Arrests for crimes such as harassment, assault, and disorderly conduct.

Bullycide Video

Questions•SRO Supervisor

Sergeant Mark MolineSCPD Office: 345-4415

Apollo High School and Westwood

Officer Tiffany Thompson SCPD Office: 345-4375

School Office: 253-1600 Ext #2909

Officer Tom MasteySCPD Office: 345-4342

School Office: 253-1600 Ext #2021

North Junior High and MadisonOfficer Nancy Lang

SCPD Office: 345-4339School Office: 251-2159 Ext

#4100

•South Junior High and TalahiOfficer Aaron StellmachSCPD Office: 345-4322

School Office: 251-1322 Ext #1710

Technical High School, Lincoln and City Life

Officer Christina ZabrockiSCPD Office: 345-4371

School Office: 252-2231 Ext #3126

Officer Tara GramsSCPD Office: 345-4326

School office: 252-2231 Ext #3119