What is Bullying

 

Bullying is any form of unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that could possibly involve a real or perceived power imbalance. This behavior can be repeated, or can potential be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully other may have serious, lasting problems.

Bullying can include actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, excluding someone from a group on purpose.

In order for actions to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:

1.  An Imbalance of Power: For example kids who are bullying use their power-like physical strengths, or possibly access to embarrassing information, or popularity to control or harm others.

2. Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once.

This type of behavior is something that will not be tolerated in my classroom and will have strict consequences for bullying students in the classroom.