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Anti-Bullying Week is an annual UK event held in the third week in November which aims to raise awareness of bullying of children and young people, in schools and elsewhere, and to highlight ways of preventing and responding to it.
Stop Bullying: Speak Up [1] was created in 2010 and has partnered with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (Stop Bullying.gov), Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), as well as The Anti-Defamation League and The Southern Poverty Law Center through its project, Teaching Tolerance, and other corporate sponsors.
Increased concern regarding school bullying has been raised in part due to publicized suicides of childhood victims. [6] Around 40% of middle school children are directly involved in bullying at least once a week according to the National Center of Education Statistics. [5]
Bullying can cause loneliness, depression, anxiety, lead to low self-esteem and increased susceptibility to illness. [74] Bullying has also been shown to cause maladjustment in young children, and targets of bullying who were also bullies themselves exhibit even greater social difficulties.
Bullying, one form of which is depicted in this staged photograph, is detrimental to students' well-being and development. [1]School bullying, like bullying outside the school context, refers to one or more perpetrators who have greater physical strength or more social power than their victim and who repeatedly act aggressively toward their victim.
For preschool children, family is the main consideration for the context of intervention and treatment. The interaction between children and parents or caregivers, parenting skills, social support, and socioeconomic status would be the factors. [20] For school-aged children, the school context also needs to be considered. [20]
International STAND UP to Bullying Day is a special semi-annual event in which participants sign and wear a pink "pledge shirt" to take a visible, public stance against bullying. The event takes place in schools, workplaces, and organizations in 25 countries around the globe on the third Friday of November to coincide with Anti-Bullying Week ...
Furthermore zero-tolerance policies have been struck down by U.S. courts [40] and by departments of education. [41] Another criticism is that the zero-tolerance policies have actually caused schools to turn a blind eye to bullying, resulting in them refusing to solve individual cases in an attempt to improve their image. The zero-tolerance ...