Peer Groups and Bullying Incidents

On April 9, 1999, Eric Klebold and Dylan Harris entered Columbine High School and two boys committed suicide with eleven shooting. On March 5, 2001, Charles "Andy" Williams began shooting at Santana high school in Santi, California, killed two students and injured 13 people. In another case, four students and one teacher were murdered outside the Arkansas junior high school and another 10 people were injured.

Bullying often involves students in three different groups: bullying, victims, and bystanders. Young people in each of these groups have many similarities, but each group can be further divided into subgroups of students with different personality, motivation and behavior. In order to effectively plan and provide bullying prevention activities it is important to understand the nature and scope of young people classified in each of these three groups. Radical bullies are the most common type of bullying. Young people of this category tend to be physically strong, impulsive, sullen, radical, fearless, impulsive, confident and lacking sympathy for the victims. They are aggressive in character and motivated by the desire to control power and others. They may also have negative attribution and are often seeing minor or hostile feelings around them that do not actually exist.

A bystander who witnessed bullying can choose to ignore or intervene. Interviewed bystanders usually can break through the situation. People who stop bullying, keep goals, or who draw attention from colleagues will stop nearly 60% of bullying. Students who do not intervene often see the incident as a problem, but I do not know how to respond. Looking at those bullied, fear and helplessness are planted, and bystanders may ignore the situation or line up with the bully.

According to the survey, there are 9 people out of 10 bullying cases - however, victims are intervened at a rate of less than 20%. However, if a friend intervenes to stop bullying, the episode will stop more than half in 10 seconds. Therefore, adults are responsible for finding the best way to promote colleague intervention. In order to give power to children, we need to believe that stopping bullying begins with children. They know that they connect with bullied children, that their friendship can endure the right thing, knowing how to use confident communication, and convinced that their intervention will have a positive impact I will learn.