and
WHEREAS, Information about bullying suggests that there are
three interrelated reasons why students bully, including strong
needs for power and dominance, satisfaction in causing injury
and suffering to other students and reward for their behavior
with material or psychological rewards; and
WHEREAS, Bullying can take on many forms, including
derogatory comments and bad names, social exclusion or
isolation, hitting, kicking, shoving and spitting, lies and
false rumors, having money or other things taken or damaged,
being threatened or forced to do things and forms of racial,
sexual and cyber bullying; and
WHEREAS, Bullying is done by both girls and boys; and
WHEREAS, At first glance, many people may think bullying
behavior is easy to define as solely physical aggression, but,
while that can still be considered bullying today, bullying
behaviors can be much more complex and varied than the
stereotype; and
WHEREAS, Harmful bullying can occur quietly and covertly,
through gossip or on the Internet, causing emotional damage; and
WHEREAS, Although definitions vary from source to source,
most agree that an act is defined as bullying when the behavior
hurts or harms another person physically or emotionally and the
targets have difficulty stopping the behavior directed at them
and struggle to defend themselves; and
WHEREAS, Many definitions include a statement about
imbalance of power, described as when the student with the
bullying behavior has more power, either physically, socially or
emotionally; and
WHEREAS, Many definitions also include the types of bullying,
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