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1) Bullying is defined as repeated aggressive behavior intended to harm someone physically or emotionally. It affects about 1 in 5 US students aged 12-18 each year. 2) Bullying takes an emotional toll on victims and can impact their safety and self-worth. It makes victims afraid to go to school. 3) There are different types of bullying, including physical, verbal, social, and cyber bullying. Physical bullying involves hitting or damaging property while verbal bullying consists of name-calling and insults. Social bullying damages someone's reputation and cyber bullying occurs online through messages and posts.

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Video Script - Bullying 1

1) Bullying is defined as repeated aggressive behavior intended to harm someone physically or emotionally. It affects about 1 in 5 US students aged 12-18 each year. 2) Bullying takes an emotional toll on victims and can impact their safety and self-worth. It makes victims afraid to go to school. 3) There are different types of bullying, including physical, verbal, social, and cyber bullying. Physical bullying involves hitting or damaging property while verbal bullying consists of name-calling and insults. Social bullying damages someone's reputation and cyber bullying occurs online through messages and posts.

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Video Script - Bullying in Schools

You’re such a loser! (Show written word or picture on screen)

Omg! Did you see that picture of her on the internet?! (Show picture on screen)

(Show pictures of different types of bullying that aren’t verbal) - Silence

In the United States, 1 out of 5 students ages 12-18 have been bullied during the school

year. Bullying is defined as “a repeated aggressive behavior where one person (or group of

people) in a position of power deliberately intimidates, abuses, or coerces an individual with the

intention to hurt that person physically or emotionally.” Let’s take a look at the bolded words

again...Intentional - the behavior was aggressive and the individual had a deliberate attempt to

hurt another person, Repeated - these actions occur repeatedly (over and over again) over time to

the same person or same group of people.

It is important to take bullying seriously and not brush it off as “kids being kids” or “it’s a

part of life.” Bullying takes an emotional toll upon the child being bullied day after day and can

affect a student’s safety and self-worth.

Take a moment to think about it and put yourself in the victims shoes. You go to school

everyday thinking it is your safe place but instead get verbally picked on everyday by the same

student. It happened once, so you ignored it but you hear it day after day...different comments

about how you look or how you dress. Then they start attacking your physical appearance,

something that you don’t have control of. Instead of being excited to go to school, you are now

afraid or embarrassed going to school. You start covering up more physically and start talking

less so that people just don’t notice you. Unfortunately, that victim was actually me in

elementary school in the third grade. I still remember how I felt being bullied as a child and I
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remember exactly where I got bullied day after day. The reason I share this is because if I still

remember those details as an adult, kids are definitely affected by it.

There are many different types of bullying that can be experienced by children in

classrooms, in their schools or outside of school, some are obvious to spot while others can be

more subtle. The different types of bullying seen in schools include physical bullying, verbal

bullying, social bullying, or cyber bullying.

(Show picture or video of physical bullying)

“Physical bullying includes hitting, kicking, tripping, pinching and pushing or damaging

property. Physical bullying causes both short term and long term damage.”

(Show picture or video of physical bullying)

“Verbal bulling includes name calling, insults, teasing, intimidation, homophobic or racist

remarks, or verbal abuse. While verbal bullying can start off harmless, it can escalate to levels

which start affecting the individual target.” This form of bullying is seen most often and starts at

a young age.

(Show picture or video of social bullying)

Social bullying is harder to recognise and can be carried out behind the bullied person’s

back. It hurts someone’s social reputation or it is to cause some sort of humiliation.

(Show picture or video of cyber bullying)

The Cyberbullying Research Centre defines cyber bullying as: Intentional and repeated

harm inflicted through the use of computers, phones, and other electronic devices. This is a form

of bullying that is growing rapidly since it makes for an “easy target.” Because this type of

bullying is done behind a digital platform/device, it can happen at any time. It can be public for

the world to see or private between the bully and the victim. It can include things such as hurtful
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texts or emails, posing photos or videos of an individual, imitating another person’s profile, or

spreading gossip publicly.

Bullying is a serious and on-going problem and it is our job as educators to have a

consistent effort to keep it away from our schools. Many schools bring in a speaker to raise

awareness or have anti-bullying assemblies but this is just a short-term fix. Students fix their

behavior for a week but then go back to their old ways. Schools have to have policies in place

and enforced rules and consequences for the ones who are bullying others. Bullying is a tough

issue to tackle, with consistent and united efforts by everyone in the building, including students,

it can be stopped.
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References
11 Facts About Bullying. (2021). DoSomething.Org.

https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-bullying

Hochman, A. (2021, February 11). Definition of Bullying. University of the People.

https://www.uopeople.edu/blog/definition-of-bullying/

Types Of Bullying | National Centre Against Bullying. (2021). National Centre Against

Bullying.

https://www.ncab.org.au/bullying-advice/bullying-for-parents/types-of-bullying/

What is bullying? | preventingbullying.promoteprevent.org. (2021). PromotePrevent -

Preventing Bullying. http://preventingbullying.promoteprevent.org/what-bullying

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