BULLYING

Learning Target: I can identify and explain the impact bullying has on the educational

environment.

Success Criteria: I can identify a successful and unsuccessful

learning environment. I can identify different forms of bullying. I can identify and explain how bullying effects

the learning environment.

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Using evidence, can you successfully explain how bullying effects the learning environment?

Do we really have to talk about bullying?

27% of the students at TJH stated that they are bullied at least once a week.

Is this percentage big enough for us to take time to discuss the impact of bullying?

What percentage of students are bullied at TJH at least once a week?

What is Bullying?

Bullying? the process of intimidating or mistreating

somebody weaker or in a more vulnerable situation

Terms

Inadequate: Failing to reach an expected or required level or

standard. Belittle:

To reduce or dismiss the importance or quality of somebody or something.

Demeaning: To reduce somebody to a much lower status in a

humiliating way. Ostracize:

To banish or exclude somebody from society or from a particular group, either formally or informally.

Common Theme

What is the common theme you detected within all of the meanings of these terms?

What are the different forms of bullying?

Physical The instigator attempts to physically dominate another

teen. This usually includes kicking, punching and other physically harmful activities, designed to instill fear in the one bullied, and possible coerce him or her to do something.

Verbal Is when someone verbally bullies another, he or she uses

demeaning language to tear down another’s self-image. Emotional

Aims at getting someone else to feel isolated, and alone. Cyber

This type of bullying uses instant messaging, cell phone text messages and online social networks to humiliate and embarrass others.

Predict who bullies?

1. Are male or females more prone to physical bullying?

2. Are male or females more prone to verbal and emotional bullying?

3. Which group is more likely to exclude other teens as a form of bullying?

Who bullies?

1. Are male or females more prone to physical bullying?

Male2. Are male or females more prone to verbal and emotional bullying?

Female3. Which group is more likely to exclude other teens as a form of bullying?

Female

Why Discuss Bullying?

Think back to the learning target again, why are we having this discussion? To see if bullying can effect the learning

environment.

What’s the impact of bullying?

Stunted Social Development Depression

*Depression over bullying will have major impacts on the individual’s life. For Example:

Drug Use Suicide Retaliation

Real Life Example

Bullying is not harmless. This is Rachel Emhke.Rachel is a 13 year old student from Kasson, Minnesota. Rachel has endured months of multiple forms of bullying.

Predict the actions that Rachel took to get through the bullying she endured.

Video

Rachel Emhke Rachel face any examples of Physical Bullying?

Cornered in the locker room by a pack of girls.

Rachel face any examples of Verbal Bullying? Words carved into her locker and sent by text

messaging.

Rachel face any examples of Emotional Bullying? Text message telling Rachel to leave the school and

calling her names.

Rachel face any examples of Cyber Bullying? Text message sent anonymously to classmates.

Rachel is not the only one.

Amanda CummingsStaten Island high school sophomore Amanda Cummings, 15, reportedly jumped in front of a bus on December 27, 2011. Cummings had a suicide note with her, and her family believes she was tormented by bullies at school, possibly over a relationship she had with an older boy that another girl at school also liked. "People [were] really nasty to her for no reason," junior Marisa Ryan told CBS New York. Ryan said people called her names and posted mean things about her on Facebook.Author: CBSNews Credit: CBS New York

Megan MeierMegan Meier, 13, hung herself in her bedroom in October 2006 after being "dumped" by someone she thought was a 16-year-old boy on MySpace. The boy, however, turned out to be Lori Drew, the mother of one of her neighbors, who had set up the blog to torment the girl. In 2008, a federal jury convicted Drew of three misdemeanor counts related to the hoax, but a judge threw out the verdict the next year. In May 2008, Missouri lawmakers passed a cyber harassment law called the Megan Meier law.Author: CBSNews Credit: AP Photo/Tom Gann

Kameron Jacobson

On January 18, 2011, high school freshman Kameron Jacobsen hung himself in his bedroom after reportedly enduring online bullying, "psychological torture," and physical assaults by peers. His parents told CBS News that they did not plan to file charges against any of their son's bullies, instead they've been working to pass a state anti-bullying law.

Author: CBSNews Credit: CBS New York

Phoebe Prince

Phoebe Prince hanged herself in her family's apartment on Jan. 10. 2010. Prince, an Irish immigrant, reportedly became the target of threats and insults at her high school after the ex-girlfriend of a boy she dated began bullying her and recruited her friends to torment the girl, too. The girl, Kayla Narey, 18, and the boyfriend, Sean Mulveyhill, 18, both pleaded guilty to criminal harassment and were sentenced to community service and a year probation. Three other girls received similar sentences.

Author: CBSNews Credit: Personal Photo

Seth Walsh

On Sept. 19, 2011, seventh-grader Seth Walsh, 13, tried to hang himself from a tree in his family's backyard. He died after a little more than a week on life support. Walsh, who was openly gay, reportedly endured online and in-person bullying, including slurs and insults about the way he acted and dressed. His grandmother told Time magazine that Seth "spent a lot of his life frightened."

Author: CBSNews Credit: YouTube

HOW ARE STUDENTS WHO ARE BULLIED AT SCHOOL SUPPOSED

TO FOCUS AT SCHOOL?