What is bullying?

 Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time

 

•Cyberbullying- •Bullying that occurs using technology •Relational –

Hurting someone’s reputation for their own social standing, spreading rumors, breaking up relationships

•Prejudicial-

Racial, discrimination against sex, sexuality.. etc

•Sexual-

 Harassing, favors for a specific goal, inappropriate comments

•Verbal-

Disrespecting, saying or writing mean things, name calling, teasing

•Physical- Hitting a person’s body or possessions, bodily harm from one to another

 Affects: 

More likely that you will become increasingly susceptible to becoming depressed and/or angry and/or bitter. •

Being bullied teaches you that you are undesirable, that you are not safe in the world

•When you are forced, again and again, to contemplate your relative lack of control over the bullying process, you are being set up for Learned Helplessness

•you have difficulty believing in yourself, you will tend to have a harder time persevering through difficult situations and challenging circumstances.

•Affects your education

•Peoplefind themselves having difficulty entering into or maintaining loving and warm intimate relationships. •Sometimes, even suicide

"17.1% of Antelope Valleys Population suffers from depression compared to 13.6% of the Los Angeles County As a Whole"

"11.4% committed suicide in the valley compared to 6.6% countywide"

"The antelope valley currently has the highest rate in suicides as of 2014"

                                                                                                                                 -Antelope Valley Press