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School Bullying

In schools, bullying usually occurs in areas with minimal or no adult supervision. It can occur in nearly any part in or around the school building, though it more often occurs in PE, recess, hallways, bathrooms, on school buses and waiting for buses, classes that require group work and/or after school activities. Bullying in school sometimes consists of a group of students taking advantage of, or isolating one student in particular and gaining the loyalty of bystanders who want to avoid becoming the next victim. Targets of bullying in school are often pupils who are considered strange or different by their peers to begin with, making the situation harder for them to deal with. Some children bully because they have been isolated, and they have a deep need for belonging, but they do not possess the social skills to effectively keep friends (see social rejection).^[7]

Bullying can also be perpetrated by teachers and the school system itself: there is an inherent power differential in the system that can easily predispose to subtle or covert abuse, humiliation, or exclusion - even while maintaining overt commitments to anti-bullying policies.^[16][17]

School shootings receive an enormous amount of media attention. The children who perpetrate these shootings sometimes claim that they were victims of bullying and that they resorted to violence only after the school administration repeatedly failed to intervene.^[8] In many of these cases, the victims of the shooters sued both the shooters' families and the schools.^[18]

Some suggest these rare but horrific events have led schools to try harder to discourage bullying, with programs designed to teach students cooperation, as well as training peer moderators in intervention and dispute resolution techniques, as a form of peer support.^{[citation needed]}

American victims and their families have legal recourse, such as suing a school or teacher for failure to adequately supervise, racial or gender discrimination, or other civil rights violations. Special education students who are victimized may sue a school or school board under the ADA or Section 504.

In one of his Narnia books, C.S. Lewis makes school bullying a minor plot point, along with a pointed dig against school administrators for using an experimental pedagogy which tolerated bullying. ^[1

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying#School_bullying

1. Where does bullying often take place? Explain in detail answer!

2. What does bullying in school consist of?

3. What kinds of pupils become target of bullying?

4. How can a student in a school become victim of bullying?

5. Can the teacher perpetrate bullying?

6. How can he do that?

7. Mention the forms of bullying in school?

8. Who was sued by the victims of the shooters in school shooting?

9. What does the school do to discourage bullying?

10. What kinds of failure can the American families sue to a school?