Understanding
BULLYING
What is bullying?
What are its
characteristics?
Where can
bullying happen?
Is there a long
time effect of
bullying?
What is Bullying?
It is the use of force, threat,
or coercion to abuse, intimid
ate, or aggressively to
impose domination over
others.
The behavior is often
repeated and habitual.
One essential prerequisite is the perception of an imbalance of
social or physical power.
Behaviors used to assert such domination can include
verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and
such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets.
What is Bullying?
Justifications and rationalizations:
Differences of class
Race
Religion
Gender
Sexuality
Appearance
Behavior, or
Ability.
What is Bullying?
Where can bullying happen?
School
Universities/Colleges
Workplace
Organization/s
Republic Act
10627
Anti-Bullying
Act of 2013
Bullying defined:
Bullying refers to any severe or repeated use by one or more
students of a written, verbal or electronic expression, or a
physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed
at another student that has the effect of actually causing or
placing the latter in reasonable fear of physical or emotional
harm or damage to his property; creating a hostile
environment at school for the other student; infringing on the
rights of the other student at school; or materially and
substantially disrupting the education process or the orderly
operation of a school. (Section 2)
Bullying:
Bullying:
That has the Effect of:
actually causing or placing the victim in reasonable
fear of physical or emotional harm or damage to his
property
creating a hostile environment at school for the other
student;
infringing on the rights of the other student at school;
or
materially and substantially disrupting the education
process or the orderly operation of a school
Bullying:
Specific types of bullying:
Any unwanted physical
contact between the bully
and the victim like punching,
pushing, shoving, kicking,
slapping, tickling, headlocks,
inflicting school pranks,
teasing, fighting and the use
of available objects as
weapons; (Physical Bullying)
Bullying:
Specific types of bullying:
Any act that causes
damage to a victims
psyche and/or emotional
well-being; (Social
Bullying)
Ex. social rejection
Bullying:
Specific types of bullying:
Any slanderous statement or
accusation that causes the
victim undue emotional distress
like directing foul language or
profanity at the target, namecalling, tormenting and
commenting negatively on
victims looks, clothes and
body; and (Verbal Bullying)
Bullying:
Specific types of bullying:
Cyber-bullying or any bullying
done through the use of
technology or any electronic
means. (Cyber Bullying)
Bullying:
Is there any penal sanction against the bully?
NONE under this law.
Under Republic Act No. 9344 as amended by Republic Act No. 10630:
SEC. 20-A. Serious Crimes Committed by Children Who Are Exempt From Criminal
Responsibility. A child who is above twelve (12) years of age up to fifteen (15)
years of age and who commits parricide, murder, infanticide, kidnapping and
serious illegal detention where the victim is killed or raped, robbery with homicide
or rape, destructive arson, rape, or carnapping where the driver or occupant is
killed or raped or offenses under Republic Act No. 9165 (Comprehensive
Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002) punishable by more than twelve (12) years of
imprisonment, shall be deemed a neglected child under Presidential Decree No.
603, as amended, and shall be mandatorily placed in a special facility within the
youth care faculty or Bahay Pag-asa called the Intensive Juvenile Intervention and
Support Center (IJISC).
Conduct of
Investigation
by the
Principal or
persons so
designated by
the Principal to
handle such
issues, or both
Conduct of
Investigation
by the
Principal or
persons so
designated by
the Principal to
handle such
issues, or both
Additional requirements:
NONE
But Davao City has Anti-Discrimination
Ordinance and there is already a proposed bill
against discrimination.