battling bullies

Teri S. LesesneSam Houston State University

ProfessorNana@yahoo.com

SOME FACTS TO CONSIDER

90% of middle school kids (grades 4-8) say bullying is worse than in other

grades

56% of K-12 students report witnessing bullying incidents

15% of absences may be due to bullying

10% of drop outs and school changes are attributable to bullying

More than 250,00 kids will be attacked each month at school

TYPES OF BULLYING

Physical

Verbal

Emotional

Cyber

AS NAOMI SHIHAB NYE NOTES…

“To me the world of poetry is a house with thousands of

glittering windows. Our words and images, land to land, era

to era, shed light on one another. Our words dissolve the

shadows we imagine fall between. "One night I dreamt of

spring," writes Syrian poet Muhammad al-Maghut, "and

when I awoke/flowers covered my pillow." Isn't this where

empathy begins? Other countries stop seeming quite so

"foreign," or inanimate, or strange, when we listen to the

intimate voices of their citizens. “

THE ALAN REVIEW, 1995

WHAT CAN ONE PERSON DO?

HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF SOMEONE