Question

1. How do adults in your school or community address bullying? Have you seen adults look the other way? What kind of interventions have you seen adults use to prevent or stop bullying?

2. How do you define cyberbullying? How is it different from traditional bullying?

Answer 1

In my community, adults address bullying by speaking to both the bully, and the one being bullied, directly. They try to see both sides of the story, and resolve the problem quickly. I have seen adults multiple times ignore issues. This only leads to furthering issues and making it more difficult for both children later on in life. Interventions I have seen are time-outs, time away from play, and talking about how bullying is bad. Although, the time away from play tactic never seems to work out well, as most kids bully because they need something to do. Rather than taking anger and energy out on a person, I think it would be much more beneficial to take it out on physical activity.

I define cyber bullying as a way from bullies to bully without much repercussion. It’s different from traditional bullying because it’s behind a screen, they’re hidden, and can’t really be held accountable for their actions.

Answer 2

A lot of adults around me don’t do much for bullying. They are alway looking the other way and ignoring kids. A lot of people around me have to get there family together and come to the school.

How I define cyber bullying different then traditional bullying is that people can’t see the harm they are doing through a screen and feel they can say whatever they want without consequences.