Violence Awareness Presentation

1. Violence Awareness Presentation On Your Actions

2. Presentation Goal • To clarify what bullying is. • To stress that your actions affect others… • in a constructive way or • in a harmful way

3. Attention • Reflect on this presentation. • If you make a decision to bully after this session…you must be doing so intentionally.

4. Did You Know? People feel miserable because of the actions of others It’s Pretty Obvious

5. Everyone has a right to be safe in school Are you helping with this?

6. Thanks to people doing and saying cruel things Not all school memories are good …

7. Did You Know? Under the Law, a Junior High student can be legally charged for his or her actions.

8. British Columbia Teens charged after brawl posted online (2011) • More than a dozen bystanders watched as two girls (ages 13 and 14) repeatedly kicked another girl who fell to the ground after being punched in the face. • Police are recommending assault charges against the girls. The situation escalated through allegations posted on Facebook

9. What is Bullying? It’sNOTan accident. It’s anintentionalact that makes someone feel bad

10. It’sdeliberatehurtful behavior Done on Purpose To make someone feel bad

11. One key Aspect The person who bullies gains power by deeming their targets as objects.

12. They may view the target as: • Weak • Ugly • Dangerous • Athreat • Deserves the punishment

13. It’s Exactly What Hitler Did in World War 2

14. Bullying is Violence One Act Is Too Many

15. Forms of Bullying

16. Verbal • Bullying

17. Verbal Bullying • Belittling others • Insults • Teasing • Sexual taunts • Mocking others • Racial slurs • Threatening remarks

18. Verbal Bullying • “The psychological consequences of this social bullying could linger into early adulthood.” • “People carry these feelings with them.” University of Florida Study 2011

19. The more kids care about being popular, the more aggressive they may become.

20. If they have friends whocare about being popular, they are more likely to be aggressive.

21. Verbal Bullying is Abuse

22. Bullied StarEmma Watson Fellow students said that Watson was “mercilessly taunted” at school

23. Names Last a Lifetime

24. For The Person Verbally Bullying • You have no right doing this. • If you didn’t mean these words, prove it with positive actions. • Verbally abusive teenagers are at a higher risk of continuing this habit as adults.

25. For The Target of Verbal Bullying • The person bullying wants to lower your self-esteem. • You don’t deserve to be treated this way. • Talk to someone about it.

26. For The Bystanders of Verbal Bullying • Don’t laugh at the “joke”. • If it’s safe, tell the person to give it up. • Tell a trusted adult what happened. • Support the person targeted.

27. Physical • Bullying

28. Physical Bullying Pinching Elbowing Punching Shoving Kneeing Grabbing Any Unwanted Physical Contact Is Violence Slapping Wrestling Pushing Headlock Kicking

29. Hands Off!! • All schools have a hands-free policy to protect all students from violence. • Keep your hands to yourself.

30. Howard Stern "I got beaten up by a lot of people when I was younger."

31. Miley Cyrus "The girls took it beyond normal bullying. These were big, tough girls [known as] the Anti-Miley Club," Cyrus wrote. They were fully capable of doing me bodily harm."

32. WWE Champ Sheamus “I didn’t want to come to school. I hated myself. I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me.” “I was physically, unbearably bullied. I felt there was something wrong with me.”

33. Physical Aggression • Is assault – after the age of 12, these behaviours are considered criminal. • Can happen to anyone… even stars • Is illegal By Age 24, 60% of identified bullies have a criminal conviction

34. For The Bystanders of Physical Bullying • There are NO INNOCENT BYSTANDERS • Its your social responsibility to let an adult know about these incidents. • When you hear rumours of a planned fight, you have an obligation to inform an adult.

35. Relational • Bullying

36. Relational Aggression This intentional exclusion act is done to hurt someone. This is emotional abuse.

37. Relational Bullying • Can be hidden under the, “I didn’t know” excuses • Is psychological in nature

38. Justin Timberlake "If you didn't play football, you were a sissy. I got slurs all the time because I was in music and art . . . I was an outcast in a lot of ways . . .”

39. Christina Aguilera Girls in the singer's hometown ridiculed her performances in talent shows and slashed the tires on her family's car.

40. Trends In Junior High and High School the majority of bullying occurs from “Social Ladder Climbing”

41. University of California Study (February 2011) Most school aggression is an attempt by teens to improve their social status and occurs within their own social spheres. American Sociological Review Publication

42. Bullying Leads to Tragedy Didn’t deserve to die

43. Relational Aggression • Cannot be justified. • If you engage in relational aggression, you are at a greater risk of being targetedfor relational aggression.

44. Non-specific • Bullying

45. Blocking someone’s access This is intimidation

46. Taking someone’s things - Legally called Theft - Money From a Locker Electronics Assignments and Notes From a Knapsack

47. Homophobia Did You Know? 80% of all people that are targeted as being gay are not gay

48. Steve Nash "90% of gay teens being harassed is embarrassing to the human race." “Accepting torment as a rite of passage -- "everybody gets bullied" -- reeks of barbarism, and we as a society should want to be better than that.” Steve Nash

49. How People Look Taking a “verbal swing” at others

50. Prince Harry Prince Harry admitted that he had been bullied as a redhead and was teased "for being ginger."