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Articles on bullying for teachers and other educators. "In colloquial speech, bullying is most often used to describe a form of harassment perpetrated by someone who is in some way more powerful than a weaker peer. Researchers accept generally that bullying contains three essential elements:

  1. the behavior is aggressive and negative;
  2. the behavior is carried out repeatedly;
  3. the behavior occurs in a relationship where there is an imbalance of power between the parties involved."
Source: Wikipedia.

1: "No Bully" Policy at Philadelphia Schools (0.80/5)
By Patricia Hawke Philadelphia Schools has a “just say no” policy, when it comes to school bullies and other related negative student behavior. Approximately, two thirds of all deaths among children and adolescents in the United States are the result of injury-related causes. These include motor vehicle crashes, unintentional injuries, homicide and suicide. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least 126 students committed a school-associated homicide or suicide

2: Character Education in Elementary Schools and Preschool: Give Bullying a Knockout! (3.14/5)
by Caroline Figiel Young children love to talk about their injuries. Band-Aids are conversation starters for kids. Luckily elbows and knees can heal pretty quickly but when a child says something mean like, "You're stupid. You're a baby", that hurts another child's feelings. Hurt feelings can take a longer time to mend and continued teasing and taunting can have long lasting consequences. My partner, Danny Jones and I are parents and national "edutainers" who have develo

3: The Surprising Truth About Bullying And Bullies (2.67/5)
By Ruth Wells So much attention is focused on bullying right now. In fact, in our workshops, when we ask participants to identify the top cause of school shootings, bullying is usually named. There is no doubt that bullying is a huge problem in nearly any setting where children and youth congregate, but you may not be able to stop or moderate the bullying by focusing on that issue alone. Yet, often that is what happens. When youth professionals focus solely or primarily on bullying, it m

4: When Your Child is the Target of a Bully or Excessive Criticism (3.75/5)
By: Laurie Hurley My seven-year old daughter is adopted from Kazakhstan. She came to this country when she was five and a half not knowing any English. She lived in an orphanage her entire life and knew none of the comforts most children experience when they are babies and toddlers. She was a scared, abused little girl who suddenly found herself in America with a strange family, attending a real school for the first time in her life. She was the target of some of the cruelest and meanest comm