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FOSTERING EMPATHY AND ACTION
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUy2ZWoStr0
BULLY
160,000 – estimated number of U.S. students who skip school daily to avoid being bullied.
32% - Students who report being bullied at school during the school year.
86% - Gay and lesbian students who report being bullied. 70% - Teachers surveyed who say that educators “almost
always” intervene when bullying occurs. 35% - 9th graders who believe their teachers are interested
in trying to stop bullying. 66% - Bullying victims who believe school professionals
respond poorly to the bullying they observed. 10 -20% - Bystanders who provided any real help.
Bullying by the Numbers
What did you observe from the data?
Do any of the statistics surprise you? Why?
What conclusions can you draw?
How do you explain the fact that 70 percent of teachers surveyed claim that educators “almost always” respond when bullying occurs while another statistic says 66 percent of bullying victims believe school professionals respond poorly?
Do any of the facts in the bullying quiz relate to your school? Which ones?
Bullying by the Numbers
Bullying happens when someone is subjected to negative actions from one or more people and has a hard time defending himself or herself. Bullying takes various forms, including:Teasing, taunting or verbal abusePunching, shoving and physical actsSpreading rumorsExcluding someone from a groupGanging up on others
What is bullying?
Cyber bullying is when bullies use the Internet, mobile (cell) phones or other electronic devices. It can include:Sending mean text messages, e-mail, or instant
messagesPosting damaging pictures or hurtful messages
on blogs (like Twitter) or social network sites (like Facebook)
Spreading rumors or lies about someone, sometimes using a fake identity
Cyber bullying
Compared to their peers, kids who are bullied are five times more likely to be depressed.
Bullied boys are four times more likely to be suicidal
Bullied girls are eight times more likely to be suicidal (Bullying Prevention is Crime Prevention, 2003).
Food for Thought
A bystander is a person who sees unacceptable behavior – including bullying – but does nothing to stop it
Consider the following story…
Bystander
When Steven Tower, a youth health coordinator visited a fifth-grade class as part of an anti-bullying program, he showed the students a photograph of an 11-year-old boy in a football uniform and invited the students to “write down as many things about what you imagine that person in the picture is like.” Later, he showed them a second photo of the same boy – but this time, the boy was in a casket. When the students asked how the boy died, Tower explained: “He was bullied. Some of the boys accused him of being gay, even though he wasn’t, and then mercilessly taunted him. And no one, no one, did anything. There were no leaders in that bystander group. All of you are bystanders,” Tower said. “All of you can be leaders.”
Adapted from “The Secret to Stopping a Bully?”by Neil Swidey, The Boston Globe
Speak up! Speak up! SPEAK UP!
“The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.”
Sir Edmund Burke
What can bystanders do to protect victims and prevent bullying?
STEP 1: read the selected text
STEP 2: highlight three sentences that particularly stood out for you and write each sentence on the front of an index card or piece of paper divided into thirds
STEP 3: On the back, write a few sentences explaining why they chose that quote – what it meant to you, reminded them of, etc. You may have connected it to
something that happened to you in your own life, to a film or book you saw or read, or to something that happened in history or is happening in current events.
STEP 4: In groups of three, label one student A, one B, and the other C. Invite “A”s to read one of their chosen quotations. Then students B and C discuss the quotation. What do they think it means?
Why do they think these words might be important? To whom?
After several minutes, ask the A students to read the back of their cards (or to explain why they picked the quotation), thus having “the last word.” This process continues with the B student sharing and then student C.
SAVE THE LAST WORD FOR ME
“How much abuse is too much when bullying is involved? When does the assault reach a threshold where it’s too much in society’s viewpoint? If an adult was to strike another adult twice, that adult would be in jail. You would have a restraining order; society would say that’s not acceptable. But some of these kids endure what amounts to torture. The daily abuse is significant. So when we talk about Ja’Meya, it’s a delicate conversation to have because obviously you don’t want to send the message that if you are being bullied you can pull a gun out, but [where] does a kid who’s not getting help from adults or from her peers. . . turn to?”
TEXT #1
“When your children leave your house and disap pear into school for the day, they face an array of tasks and an array of opportunities for pleasure, frustration, and pain. In one sense, each child faces these challenges alone. But in another sense they do so in pairs or in groups. Even lonely or isolated children are deeply affected by the status of friendships—or the lack of them. Connecting with a close friend or friends provides them with companions on the journey, allies, cheerleaders, someone to offer feedback to help them figure out just how well, or badly, they’re doing at the busi ness of growing up.”
TEXT #2
“I’ll Rise” Lyrics – Maya Angelou Music – Ben Harper
http://www.benharper.com/music/songs-lyrics/originals/ill-rise You may write me down in history
With your bitter twisted liesYou may trod me down in the very dirtAnd still like the dust I'll riseDoes my happiness upset youWhy are you best with gloomCause I laugh like I've got an oil wellPumpin' in my living room
So you may shoot me with your wordsYou may cut me with your eyesAnd I'll rise, I'll rise, I'll riseOut of the shacks of history's shameUp from a past rooted in painI'll rise, I'll rise, I'll rise
Now did you want to see me brokenBowed head and lowered eyesShoulders fallen down like tear dropsWeakened by my soulful cries
Does my confidence upset youDon't you take it awful hardCause I walk like I've got a diamond mineBreakin up in my front yard
So you may shoot me with your wordsYou may cut me with your eyesAnd I'll rise, I'll rise ,I'll riseOut of the shacks of history's shameUp from a past rooted in painI'll rise, I'll rise, I'll rise
So you may write me down in historyWith your bitter twisted liesYou may trod me down in the very dirtAnd still like the dust I'll rise
Does my happiness upset youWhy are you best with gloomCause I laugh like I've got a goldmineDiggin' up in my living room
Now you may shoot me with your wordsYou may cut me with your eyesAnd I'll rise, I'll rise, I'll riseOut of the shacks of history's shameUp from a past rooted in painI'll rise, I'll rise, I'll rise