ABSTRACT
The bullying problem fell into four main categories: children bringing into school incidents of bullying which had arisen in an out-of-school situation; incidents of bullying which had taken place in the playground before school and at break times; incidents arising in the classroom from in-school situations; children bullying teachers through classroom behaviours. A number of studies had addressed bullying behaviour in children. The literature on the whole confirmed my ideas on the beginnings of bullying and some made suggestions as to how to deal with the problem. However, the main bulk of the literature was concerned with the post-primary child and remediation, whereas the author was involved with children in the primary sector and was concerned with attitude development and pro-active measures. The characteristics of a bullying culture in the local environment were very familiar and served to emphasise the enormity of their task.
