10 Realities About Bullying at School and Online | MindShift | KQED News - 0 views
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“most educators aren’t aware of the function bullying serves in school,”
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The majority of kids don’t bully other kids and haven’t been victimized
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Kids pick on others as a way to secure their standing among their peers or to move up a notch.
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aggression is intrinsic to status and escalates with increases in peer status until the pinnacle of the social hierarchy is attained.”
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Children from single-parent homes, and those with less educated parents, are no more apt to bully than kids with married and learned parents. African-Americans and other minorities show the same rates of bullying as their white counterparts.
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The popular notion of bullies as sullen social outcasts who come from broken homes is a myth.
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What adults call bullying kids call drama.
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Cyber-bullying is just an extension of what’s happening in the classrooms, halls, and cafeteria
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online cruelty merely makes visible what kids are doing in person behind the backs of adults.
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ust another way for kids to express hostility towards targets they’ve already gone after—or are in retaliation against those who have attacked them in school.
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Kids don’t intervene because doing so would jeopardize their own standing, they lack the tools to assist, and because they don’t think it will help anyway.
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Adolescents are fixated on their social standing, and anything that jeopardizes their fragile position will be avoided.
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students receive scant training on how to help in such a way that it won’t backfire.
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“Asking students to be empowered and responsible bystanders is tantamount to telling them to be good readers or safe drivers without giving them instructions, guidance, and opportunities to practice,”
