Bullying

by Diego Benitez (M)

This is one of the main problems in schools because people think they are more important than others or superior because they are bigger and stronger. There are many kinds of bullying but all are in means to hurt other people.

Verbal: The verbal bullying can be just saying like, "you are fat","you are small", "red hair" or even worse insulting like your mother or things like that.

Physical: this kind of bulling is when the bully is bigger than the victim so he takes advantage of him by hitting him and then he starts to ask for money or favors and if he doesn’t do them he hits the smaller kid.

Extortion: This is what they do to them; they say they are going to hit them if they don’t give them money so that’s extortion.

Cyber bulling: Is like bully from a telephone or through internet like you have a web page with pictures of yourself and they post things in the picture so you feel bad. This is a way of verbal bully.

Bullying

by Dmitriy (R)

Bullying is creating unbearable condition for a person by other or a group of people.
This problem is especially actual in teen age.
Others can tease, hit, take money away from a teenager.

Why some of teenagers are bullied?
Possible reasons are:
- a teenager is very different in study from his class. Often it happens with student who is only one with good grades.
- a teenager is very different in his behaviour, which seems strange to others
- others feel very jealous to somebody
- others want to get authority and show strength and bullying is the easiest way to raise in own eyes and eyes of peers.
- a teenager is from poorer family than peers, so they start to mock poorer clothes or possessions

It often happens that students take part in bullying even if they do not want to do it.
Why it happens? It is effect of crowd, to be like others. If others bully, one starts to bully too, not to drop his respect in peers eyes.

If you are under bullying, you must stop it. You must remember that people who bully you are cowards, because normal people never get authority by such means. People who bully expect you to live in fear of them but you must not do it. Tell them that you are going to complain to teachers, parents and even police. Do not be afraid and do not be alone in this situation.
If you keep silence and continue to endure, it will be only worse with time.

Source: interview with T.E. Zaikova, LNSTU psychologist

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