What+is+Bullying?



Psychological, emotional, cyber, social or physical harassment of one student by another at school or within the school community. This includes at school and within its grounds, in transit between school and home, local shopping and sporting centres, at parties or local parks and in cyberspace. The playground is the most common place for bullying to occur.
 * What is school bullying?**

> **What types of behaviours does bullying include?** **Bullying is subjective** > **Targets:** > Both girls and boys can be bullies and victims. > Boys: Girls: **Families** > Bullies are bred in homes where inconsistent parenting patterns and inconsistent consequences and abusive, bullying behaviours become the role model. Some are bullies are spoilt children who never experience behaviour boundaries. > Some come from homes where there are so many problems that they are neglected emotionally or where the relationship between their parents is poor, stressful and even abusive. > There are two main types of bullies, the malicious who have been born with psychopathic or sociopathic tendencies (their brains are wired differently to ordinary children eg they like hurting animals) and those who are basically non-malicious but use bullying behaviours. > **They think:** **Injuries or Damage** > **The target can be affected at school:** **The Bully's Future** > According to Hara Estroff Marano, Psychology Today, (1995) research has found that many bullies embark on a 'downwardly spiralling course' for the rest of their lives because of their inability to deal with conflict and violence. > Society as a whole pays the price for their inability to relate to others in an assertive, empathic, respectful manner. They have a basic right to live a normal life, respected (not feared) by others and able to maintain healthy, rewarding relationships. > Parents: Peers: The school: > >
 * What are some of the forms of bullying?**
 * Verbal (most common, most painful & longest lasting impact) eg teasing, harassment and name-calling.
 * Extortion
 * Threats
 * Malicious rumours
 * Physical violence
 * Damage to property.
 * Verbal
 * Physical
 * Cyber instigated (can be traced and blocked)
 * Anti-social (exclusion, gossip and non-verbal body language)
 * What are the extents of bullying?**
 * Direct to indirect harassment,
 * From minor irritation to major assault, from "just having a bit of fun" to breaking the law.
 * When does bullying occur and for how long?**
 * A student can be bullied by one child or by a group for years.
 * Bullying can happen sporadically or over a long period of time.
 * Some children are bullied wherever they go, at any school.
 * Bullying occurs in any school: small, large, single sex, co-educational, traditional and progressive.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bullying occurs in primary, secondary, boarding school and tertiary institutions.
 * Who are the bullies and victims?**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Apart from saints or sociopaths, most children have the potential to bully or be targeted.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Both parents and teachers can bully or experience bullying within the school community.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some research shows that there is more bullying in the "staffroom" than the "classroom"; this creates a very negative, toxic role model.
 * What do children think about bullying?**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most children believe that bullying cannot be stopped.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They believe that if they report it that nothing is done or it gets worse.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most children say that they would feel happier and learn better if they felt safer at school.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bullying is one of the major reasons children contact help lines.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The crucial feature- target feels powerless and bullied.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The critical issue - extent of physical, psychological and other damage that injures the victim.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The impact on the target is made worse by fear of future attacks and fear adults won't help.
 * Bullies:**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many bullies don't realise at a conscious level that their behaviours are mean or abusive.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At an unconscious level they know that they're taking the target's power away because otherwise they couldn't do it.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most bullies don't know that their bullying behaviours can boomerang back later on and hurt them.
 * Gender stuff:**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Boys bully both boys and girls
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Boys bully more openly and experience more physical bullying and threats.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Boys use bullying tactics to make a reputation and girls use bullying tactics to protect their reputation.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Girls generally bully other girls.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Girls can be physical, but prefer indirect methods such as verbal, emotional and social bullying.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Girls use teasing, taunting, devaluing, isolation from the group and spreading malicious rumours to bully (all less obvious to teachers).
 * Statistics:**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most children have either been bullied, bully others or witnessed bullying at school.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">More than one in five children are bullied regularly at school.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">About one in five children can bully.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In American schools:
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">160,000 + children miss school every day, due to fear of attack or intimidation by other students.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">20% of students carry weapons to school to feel safer.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">22% of students are victimised at the beginning of the year and 8% are victimised during the remainder of the year.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">50% of students knew of a student who had switched schools to feel safer.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">40% of suicide victims had been bullied at school. (Victorian Coroner 2007)
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">National School Safety Centre, USA, estimates that 525,000 "attacks, shakedowns and robberies" occur in an average month in public secondary schools.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Two thirds of school shootings were conducted by victims of bullying.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">More than 50% of teachers report being bullied at school (BBC TV 2006, NSW Teachers Union Study 2004)
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The National Education Association USA reports that every day 6,250 teachers are threatened with bodily harm and 260 are actually physically assaulted.
 * How can school bullying be reduced?**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Effective anti-bullying policies, programs and procedures.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Parents need to their children social survival skills or social resilience. Let's face it, when their child leaves school for the day or for good, bullying is everywhere, on the road, among their friends and at work!
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">All students need to develop their social and emotional resilience by developing their social survival skills. Then they can create true friendships, a supportive network and block bullying.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The peer group needs to know how to take action to protect vulnerable kids and intervene respectfully. This is the role of the school.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Targets need to learn successful social survival and communication skills to find true friends and belong to a supportive group.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The bully needs to learn more effective ways of relating and feeling empathy.
 * Some difficulties in reducing school bullying:**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bullying is reflected by the attitudes towards bullying in the wider community eg sports field, parliament,
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Limited state legislation inadvertently condones school bullying or limits funding programs,
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Restricted funding limits training for teachers, parents and students and limits implementation opportunities for schools to deal with it effectively.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many school deny bullying and refuse to confront it,
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some schools pretend to care, show their policy but don't implement or intervene effectively when students report bullying.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many teachers are handicapped by a lack of support from their school.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most schools don't actively involve or assist the families who role model inappropriate behaviours to their children, influencing them to become targets, bullies or both.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most schools allow teachers or parents to bully or vice versa, creating an inappropriate role model for their children. How can a bullied teacher help a bullied child?
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Most schools don't expect onlookers/peer-group/ witnesses to intervene, challenge, report or support targets and bullies.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many schools adopt the latest fad in reducing bullying without considering an overall plan and evaluating it regularly, or they use band-aid approaches.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It's a game
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">I can get away with it
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It will make me popular
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They are so weak
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It does not hurt
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Everyone does it
 * The target:**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Wrong place/wrong time
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Does nothing
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Reacts and becomes upset, angry, sad
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Has poor social or assertive skills
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Limited support network
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Over protective parents
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Not used to blocking mean kids
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Special child
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Doesn't know how to stand up for themselves because they come from caring homes
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Experience severe life stressors, (eg parents difficulties, financial problems) which interfere with their ability to develop social resilience and protect themselves.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some children believe in justice and fight back. "How dare they tease me?" "He started it."
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sensitive children expect others to treat them as carefully as their families do. Whereas other kids don't care how they feel and take advantage of the target's vulnerabilities to play the bully game.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some expect to be treated with respect and regard to their feelings but have no interest in how they use, abuse or treat others. The other child retaliates and bullies back.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Girls become sad and boys become mad.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The target can be injured emotionally, physically, academically and socially.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They can lose motivation, concentration and their schoolwork suffers.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">This may affect their choice of career.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They experience poor self-esteem, physical health difficulties, anxiety disorders, including panic attacks, depression, suicide attempts (some are completed) and posttraumatic stress disorder.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bullying can lead to shyness, social isolation or a social phobia.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Children who are victims of bullying may become school refusers.
 * The damage can affect targets of school bullying later on:**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The victim's choice of partner, career, social life, physical and mental health can be affected over a long period of time.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Adults who were severely victimised at school can be less successful in achieving satisfactory intimate relationships.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Some victims are bullied at work.
 * Damage to bully:**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many bullies find it hard to cope with their studies in higher grades; they are more likely to drop out of school earlier.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Once the peer group have developed a sense of identity they associate with kids who respect equality in friendships. They abandon the bully because they don't want to be bossed or bullied and told what to do and say, what to wear, where to go or whom to befriend.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Many students want a career and want to achieve at school, thus the lazy bully can be forced to hang around other losers.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Their bullying behaviours can interfere with their learning, friendships, work, intimate relationships, income, physical and mental health.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They are more likely to become anti-social as adults and have difficulty creating close friendships.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Male bullies are more likely to batter and bash their wives, abuse their children, abuse alcohol and drugs.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Female bullies tend to lose their friends.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Bully dropouts are more likely to have a criminal record by the time they are 24.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The bully who is successful in his career can be tripped up later on, when the impact is greater.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">They are more likely to create another generation of bullies.
 * Sadly, bullies end up being losers in a big way.**
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Feel powerless when they are unable to protect their children.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It can remind them of their own school difficulties or other difficulties eg shyness.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Parents become very angry when schools don't deal with it immediately or can't do enough.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It can be a very traumatic experience for parents.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Become threatened if their parenting patterns are challenged.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't always want to be referred for help.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Feel bad and guilty because they don't know what to do.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fear that they will become the next target.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Torn between their friends.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Realise that the target may exacerbate the situation but can't tell them or are not heard by the target.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Can't confront the bullies.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Don't want to be involved.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Can become a secondary victim or affected by poor class morale.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Does not like students leaving, poor morale, reduced class motivation to study, lower academic results, poor public relations, lowered school results.
 * <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; url(http: //www.bullying.com.au/images/arrow.gif); background-origin: initial; background-position: 0% 3px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 22px; list-style-type: none; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-left: 24px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In many schools a few students leaving due to bullying can equate to a teacher's salary.