Skip to main content

Togerther Against School Bullying

This video explains the stories of 3 student’s victims of bullying in various parts of the world.

Emir prefers writing poetry and acting instead of playing sports like other boys. That makes the boys laugh at him due to that fact. A sad thing is that a teacher tells him that that behavior of the guys that they are making him bully is normal and part of growing up. Otherwise, his father tells him, “Grow up and be a man".

Rani has already moved to a new country, and she is entering into a new language, culture, and ethnicity. She begins to experience cyberbullying, and her mates post on social media things like “go back to your country”.

Kaya is bullied for the way she looks because her parents are poor, and they cannot buy her shoes. Some of the boys from the school wait for her and make rude comments about the way she looks.

The video also gives some information related to the stories.

  • One of every 3 students is bullied by their peers.
  • Physical bullying is the most common.
  • The most common reason for bullying is physical appearance.  
  • Ethnicity, nationality, or skin color is the second most common reason for bullying.

The consequences of bullying mentioned in the video are:

  • Isolation, depression, and less concentration.
  • Some of the students drop out of school due to the negative effects of bullying.

The video ends with the idea that it is necessary to take a Holistic Approach to stop bullying when teachers, parents, students, etc. work together to promote a safe environment at school.

In summary, the video comments on the global issue of bullying, explaining three stories and calling for a collective move to cope with bullying.


Aina Llastarry Pons


Comments

Popular posts from this blog

Gender Differences in Bullying

  Gender Differences in Bullying Bullying is a serious problem that happens in many places with children and teenagers like in school in sports and in summer camps I work as a coach and monitor with boys and girls in these kinds of spaces so this topic is important to me One thing that I see often is that bullying is not always the same for boys and girls boys usually show more physical bullying like hitting pushing or shouting girls usually use more relational bullying like ignoring others spreading lies or leaving someone out of the group this is something that many studies say too For example a study by Villardón Gallego et al says that boys are more likely to be involved in direct and physical bullying while girls show more indirect forms like social exclusion or emotional pressure (Villardón Gallego et al 2021) this means that sometimes bullying by girls is harder to see but it can hurt just as much Also according to the International Journal of Environmental Research an...

Audrie and Daisy (my opinions and way of thinking about it)

In this blog post, I brought you a documentary film mostly about 2 girls, Audrie and Daisy who had been sexually assaulted while being filmed and then cyberbullied. Audrie committed suicide in 2012 after all the things and the case happened to her. Daisy also tried to end her life by suicide multiple times right after the sexual crime and cyberbullying, but she was saved by her family every time (unfortunately in 2020, her attempt was fatal).    In the whole documentary we can meet both girls’ family and friends, talking about the things happened, which gives us a more emotional and devastating way of understanding what a sexual assault and cyberbullying can do to one person.   I do not want to give you spoilers or tell you the whole story; therefore, I would like to end my description here and truly advise you to watch it.     According to the World Health Organization, around 1 in 6 adolescents experience cyberbullying day by day and surprisingly and dev...

New Definition of Bullying

 Hi everyone! The World Anti-Bullying Forum, together with UNESCO, created a Working group for establishing a new definition of school bullying. Its new definition keeps the idea that bullying requires unwanted repetitive aggressiveness and imbalance of power, and adds the idea that this power imbalance is supported by societal and institutional norms. The emphasis is now in the idea that bullying is not an affair among students but a social process. The new definition is this one: School bullying is a damaging social process that is characterized by an imbalance of power driven by social (societal) and institutional norms. It is often repeated and manifests as unwanted interpersonal behaviour among students or school personnel that causes physical, social, and emotional harm to the targeted individuals or groups, and the wider school community. You can find the document where it is explained  here . Fes