3. WHAT IS BULLYING?  Bullying is an act of repeated aggressive behavior in order to intentionally hurt another person, physically or mentally.  Bullying is characterized by an individual behaving in a certain way to gain power over another person.

4. PROBLEM:  WHY IS BULLYING RAMPANT NOWADAYS ESPECIALLY IN SCHOOLS AND WITH THE YOUTH?

5. TYPES OF BULLYING  School bullying  Workplace bullying  Cyber-bullying  Gay bullying

6. SCHOOL BULLYING  Bullying in school sometimes consists of a group of students taking advantage of or isolating one student in particular and gaining the loyalty of bystanders who want to avoid becoming the next victim. These bullies may taunt and tease their target before physically bullying the target. Bystanders may participate or watch, sometimes out of fear of becoming the next victim.

7. Workplace bullying  Statistics show that bullying is 3 times as prevalent as illegal discrimination and at least 1,600 times as prevalent as workplace violence. Statistics also show that while only one employee in every 10,000 becomes a victim of workplace violence, one in six experiences bullying at work. Bullying is a little more common than sexual harassment but not verbal abuse which occurs more than bullying.

8. Cyber-bullying  Cyber-bullying is any bullying done through the use of technology. This form of bullying can easily go undetected because of lack of parental/authoritative supervision. Cyber bullying includes, but is not limited to, abuse using email, instant messaging, text messaging, websites, social networking sites, etc.

9. Gay bullying  Gay bullying and gay bashing are expressions used to designate verbal or physical actions that are direct or indirect in nature by a person or group against a person who is gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered (LGBT), or of questionable sexual orientation, or one who is perceived to be so, because of rumors or fitting gay stereotypes.

10. WATCH AND PONDER!

11. QUESTIONS:  What are the effects of bullying?  Why do some people bully others?  How can you minimize bullying in the classroom?  Can you be a steward to stop bullying?

12. References:  Wikipedia  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SMLAD gjDMU