February 26th, 2014 is Pink Shirt Day or Anti-Bulling Day

The Westcoast Reader: Story about bullying
http://www.thewestcoastreader.com/

What is Bullying?

Bullying is behaviour that makes the person being bullied feel afraid or uncomfortable. There are many ways that young people bully each other, even if they don't realize it at the time. Some of these include: verbal( including cyber bullying), physical, and emotional.

Pink Shirt Day- Bullying Stops Here!

"Pink Shirt Day began in Nova Scotia in September 2007 as 'Stand Up Against Bullying Day' when a high school student arrived at school wearing a pink shirt. He was swarmed by a group of about 10 kids who called him gay and threatened to beat him up. Two older students, David Shepherd and Travis Price, witnessed the event and the next day showed up at school with 75 pink shirts, a pink basketball and material to make pink head and arm bands to spread around the school. Within 2 days, over 400 kids wearing pink. The bullies were made powerless.

 From Sir Charles Kingford- Smith Elementary newsletter.

Pink Shirt Day is taking place on February 26th, 2014. Please show your support by wearing something pink on that day.

Different kinds of bullying:
Physical bullying means:

• Hitting, kicking, or pushing someone…or even just threatening to do it
• Stealing, hiding or ruining someone’s things
• Making someone do things he or she don’t want to do

Verbal bullying including cyber-bullying means:

• Name-calling
• Teasing
• Insulting

Watch the video to hear some examples of name calling and using hurtful language.





Non-verbal (Relationship) bullying means:

• Refusing to talk to someone
• Spreading lies or rumors about someone
• Making someone feel left out or rejected

What do all these things have in common? They’re examples of ways one person can make another person feel hurt, afraid, or uncomfortable. When these are done to someone more than once, and usually over and over again for a long period of time, that’s bullying.
The reason why one kid would want to bully another kid is this: when you make someone feel bad, you gain power over him or her. Power makes people feel like they’re better than another person, and then that makes them feel really good about themselves. Power also makes you stand out from the crowd. It’s a way to get attention from other kids, and even from adults.

 Cyber bullying is a type of verbal bullying that happens online or electronically (the Internet, mobile phones or other technology).

Click on the link below to listen to the news about cyber bullying.
Cyber- Bullying

  Here is the answer key for the listening on bullying.

TRUE / FALSE:

a. T

b. F

c. T

d. F

e. F

f. T

g. F

h. T

SYNONYM MATCH:

1.	influence	a.	impact
2	victims	b.	injured parties
3.	menacing	c.	threatening
4.	consent	d.	permission
5.	spread	e.	circulated
6.	vulnerable	f.	weak
7.	commented	g.	remarked
8.	impulses	h.	urges
9.	magnified	i.	increased
10.	profile	j.	description

PHRASE MATCH:

1.	A new report on the influence	a.	of the Internet on US teens
2	annoying and potentially	b.	menacing online activities
3.	having rumors about them	c.	spread online
4.	the most common	d.	complaint from online teens
5.	Teenagers still believe that worse	e.	bullying happens offline
6.	making themselves	f.	vulnerable
7.	39% of social network	g.	users had been cyber-bullied
8.	Bullying has entered the	h.	digital age
9.	the effect	i.	is magnified
10.	through a website, online profile	j.	or blog posting

GAP FILL:

Cyber-bullying spreads in the US

A new report on the influence of the Internet on US teens reports that one third of teenagers who surf the Net have been victims of cyber-bullying. The research, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, says: “About one third of all teenagers who use the internet say they have been targets of a range of annoying and potentially menacing online activities – such as receiving threatening messages; having their private emails or text messages forwarded without consent; having an embarrassing picture posted without permission; or having rumors about them spread online.” However, the most common complaint from online teens was about private information being shared rather than direct threats or physical violence. Teenagers still believe that worse bullying happens offline.
The report discovered that as more young people join social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, they are making themselves vulnerable by sharing more of their personal information online for cyber-bullies to find. The survey found that 39% of social network users had been cyber-bullied in some way, compared to 22% of online teens who had never used social networks. Report author Amanda Lenhart commented: "Bullying has entered the digital age. The impulses behind it are the same, but the effect is magnified. In the past, the materials of bullying would have been whispered, shouted or passed around. Now, with a few clicks, a photo, video or a conversation can be shared with hundreds via e-mail or millions through a website, online profile or blog posting."