A bully is a mini terrorist to the school population. Unchecked it can get worse.
They look for easy "targets."
What’s an easy target?
A child who unknowingly puts themselves in a position to get bullied and teased by another child or group of children.
But this is not always the case, it depends on the situation, and how well your child tolerates the acts.
Bullies are predatory and opportunistic.
You might be:
Popular with people.
The bully fears exposure of their inadequacy and incompetence, your presence, popularity and competence unknowingly and unwittingly fuel that fear.
The person to whom people come to for advice, getting more attention than the bully.
Seen as a well-defined set of values which you will not compromise.
Seen as having a sense of integrity.
Seen as having at least one vulnerability that can be exploited.
Jealousy and envy are strong motivators of bullying.
Giving unwarranted or invalid criticisms.
Overruling, ignoring and isolating a person.
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They regularly choose the target by offensive remarks and language or give the silent treatment.
They single out and unfairly treat a person differently to other peers.
They Degrade, threaten, or humiliate.
They encourage you to feel guilty and to believe you are always the one at fault.
Bullies also know that they are doing this behavior, and on some scale are like a little terrorist running around the school.
Bullies have a demeanor about them that signifies self justification for their acts.
Bullies are predatorial and usually pick on people of less strength or size.
They threaten, intimidate, and force physical violence on others.
Bullies also do this because they may have issues that are bothering them and they may not know how to deal with their stress properly.
Bullies also look for easy targets for domination purposes, to gain or regain their popularity. Some bullies do it just because it makes them feel better, and it is a learned response to having been bullied, or to other things happening in their home life.
Some will do it to get the attention off them to hurt someone of less popularity or non liked. Some have a bad demeanor about them because of home situations or abuse.
Females are vicious in acts toward each other, in all areas of their physical self, including how they dress and act. Often, violent events can occur due to online postings, and that of rumoring.
Typically kids will use the grapevine in school to demote others. This has a bad aftereffect. Schools should disrupt this as much as possible.
Bullies will offend time and again, it is up to the school how much they monitor a child that bullies but, one thing is definitely for sure; the lawsuits will continue to rise as long as they don't get a good handle on them. Policies are one thing, good management is another.