Bullying why it happens

The awareness centre runs a set of awareness-raising activities for different target audiences including events, awareness tools, training and promotion of a positive online environment. It serves as a centre of expertise for the industry and decision-making bodies, including the legislative process, and co-organises safer and positive internet events and campaigns in partnership with industry and NGOs.

Email address: mail nedopusti. Helpline activities became part of the federal helpline consulting project ChildHelpLine providing consulting in difficult life situation for children and parents, with deep regional penetration and raising consultants' level of awareness. The SIC contribution to the project covers online environment issues including bullying, sexting, consulting on safety issues, and so on. The hotline performs assessment of reported content and initiates notice and takedown procedures about illegal content.

Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose. Bullying can occur during or after school hours.

While most reported bullying happens in the school building, a significant percentage also happens in places like on the playground or the bus. See also " Frequency of Cyberbullying.

While bullying can happen to any student, it is know that some are more likely than others to be bullied. Vulnerable groups include students with disabilities or special educational needs, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex LGBTI students and those perceived to be LGBTI, and students of a culture, race or religion that differs from the main culture, race or religion at the school.

Bullying sometimes involves students commenting on and judging other student's personal attributes and how they are different. These negative comments can relate to:. This type of bullying is linked to prejudices that students learn from their family group and their wider social community about the value of diversity in the community. There are social norms within groups of students and also the whole school.

The school's norms are modelled by the school staff and other adults in the broader community, including parents. Students who 'stand out' as different from the norms within their peer group are most likely to be bullied.

Students can use bullying as a way to enforce group norms about how to appear and behave. Student group norms and views about which students are of 'greater' social standing come from society's values about power and status.