How students react to bullying

Students can react in many ways to bullying. They can accept the bully and keep in mind that the bully may have more underlying issues that are affecting them than what they are bullying the other student with. Students can stand up to a bully; they can do this in several different ways too. Ways to stand up to a bully include: going to a trusted adult or teacher and telling them about it, standing up to the bully in person, or they could just try to avoid the bully all together. Some students that have been bullied will want to switch to a different school or have switched schools just to feel safer. They feel that if they get away from the bully then the bully cannot hurt them, when in reality if a bully wants to hurt them, they may find a way to hurt them anyways, such as cyber-bullying them. Students that are bullied also tend to avoid certain areas in school or on their way home to avoid running into the bully. They may avoid the school bathrooms all together for the fact that they are scared a bully will corner them and give them a swirly or just attack them in general.  Students would rather teachers intervene rather than them ignore the teasing and bullying. They would feel this way because usually only about twenty-five percent of teachers or administrators actually intervene, even though about seventy percent of teachers believe they do intervene, they really do not. Teachers need to intervene more often whether they believe they are or are not, they need to show it by their actions. Even if the teachers’ action was only to give the bully a detention for one day. A detention for one day may help the victim get away and make it home without being harassed.  Help try to prevent bullying, do not just ignore it. It does not go away for the victim so why push it away and out of your mind.