http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/sept11/vol69/num01/What_Students_Say_About_Bullying.aspx

Responding to bullying, what students try, and how well it works

• 73% Pretend it didn’t bother me.
• 67% Told a friend
• 66% Told the person to stop
• 66% Walked away
• 58% Reminded myself it is not my fault
• 49% Told an adult at home
• 47% Did nothing
• 42% Made a joke about it
• 38% Told the person how it made me feel
• 32% Told an adult at school
• 27% Made plans about how I was going to get them back
• 20% Hit of fought them

[[Schools can’t be very effective if we’re third to bottom in this list.]]

Least effective strategies? Trying to handle it yourself
Somewhat more effective? Putting responsibility where it belongs
Most effective? Seeking help from others.

What can schools do?

• Seek staff and student input in developing rules, expectations and consequences
• Build a school-wide framework of nurturing, warm relationships
• With student input, develop procedures for staff to follow when witnessing or hearing about specific negative student behaviours
• When possible, use smaller, consistent consequences instead of large consequences
• Support student reporting by making retaliation for ‘telling’ a serious issue.