How to Recognize Bullying

If a students shows signs of being bullied, take action immediately and put a stop to disruptive behavior! If someone is being bullied they may:

• be frightened of walking to and from school
• change their usual route
• not want you to go on the school bus
• beg you to drive them to school
• be unwilling to go to school (or be ‘school phobic’)
• feel ill in the mornings
• begin truanting
• begin doing poorly in their school work
• come home regularly with clothes or books destroyed
• come home starving (bully taking dinner money)
• become withdrawn, start stammering, lack confidence
• become distressed and anxious, stop eating
• attempt or threaten suicide
• cry themselves to sleep, have nightmares
• have their possessions go missing
• ask for money or start stealing (to pay the bully)
• continually ‘lose’ their pocket money
• refuse to talk about what’s wrong
• have unexplained bruises, cuts, scratches
• begin to bully other children, siblings
• become aggressive and unreasonable
• give improbable excuses for any of the above

Don’t wait, act now! If you know someone is being bullied do something to help.

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