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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.”

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.

The popular notion of bullies as sullen social outcasts who come from broken homes is a myth.

What adults call bullying kids call drama.

Cyber-bullying is just an extension of what’s happening in the classrooms, halls, and cafeteria

online cruelty merely makes visible what kids are doing in person behind the backs of adults.

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.

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.

Adolescents are fixated on their social standing, and anything that jeopardizes their fragile position will be avoided.

students receive scant training on how to help in such a way that it won’t backfire.

“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,”