Bullying

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“Bullying is the act of intentionally causing harm to others, through verbal harassment, physical assault, or other more subtle methods of coercion such as manipulation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. Although the UK currently has no legal definition of bullying, some US states have laws against it. Bullying is usually done to coerce others by fear or threat.”

Taken from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying

Bullying is popular outrage, this kind of behaviors are more common in school this topic was presented by Pedro, Fabian and Claudio, they talk about the meaning of this word and then they explained their causes and our labor as a parents and as a teachers.

People that suffer this kind of situations have a lot of bad consequences in the future, because they live with the grief in silence and isolation. So our labor as adults is crucial and we must pay attention to ours students or children.

This topic is an old one, but now with Internet, cell phones with camera, and other resources is more well-known and we can be more informed about what kinds of steps we must take.