ABSTRACT
Teachers know they must constantly be alert to bullying and be proactive in giving students strategies to recognize and deal with it. Moms Fight Back, an anti-bullying organization, reports that “74 percent of eight- to 11-year-olds say teasing and bullying happen at their school, and 15% of high school students report experiencing cyberbullying in the past year.” Victims of bullying, the bullies themselves, and even those children who simply witness bullying will struggle in school and sometimes stop attending out of fear, experience low self-esteem, live in a constant state of stress response, become depressed, and often turn to violence themselves. The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry states that “close to half of all children will experience school bullying at some point while they are at primary or secondary school.” 1 Many others, obviously, will do the bullying.
