Bullying in this day in age is one of the biggest problems teens and pre-teens have to face on a day to day basis. According to stopbullying.gov, bullying is defined as “Unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance” (1). Whether it’s physical, verbal, or over the internet, any teen would tell you that they have been bullied or witnessed some type of bullying take place. This is a huge problem that needs to be resolved because the abuse of one may lead to both short and long term effects in their life. A fairly well known bullying scandal that occurred here on Long Island took place last year at Welden E. Howitt Middle School in Farmingdale. Austin Scheniderman was the …show more content…
About.com claims that there are six different ways in which bullying could be performed. There is physical, verbal, relational aggression, cyber bullying, sexual, and prejudicial, with physical being the most common out of all of them (3). An example of physical bullying would be punching, kicking, or any other physical act that would hurt another. Relational Aggression would take place if someone made up rumors about someone else or tried to exclude them from groups or activities. Cyber bullying could be through social media, texting, or any other technological form. As our world’s technology is advancing and more forms of communication are being developed, this will increase the amount of cyber bullying that takes …show more content…
Some that character.org list are “Unexplained physical marks, cuts, bruises and scrapes, afraid to be left alone: wants you there at dismissal, suddenly clingy, suddenly sullen, withdrawn, evasive; remarks about feeling lonely, marked change in typical behavior or personality, begins bullying siblings or younger kids” (5.) However, it may be difficult to get the truth out of the victim. Many kids that are bullied don’t seek help or even tell anyone in fear that the bullying would get worse because they would appear as a rat or a tattle to the