In my old school, where I was from 4th grade to 7th grade, bullying was a big problem. People were constantly being bullied around me. It was at a point where it became a continuous loop. Someone would be bullied; in couple weeks he would bully someone else and it would continue like this. For example in 5th grade they kept bullying this girl and one girl even got in a fist fight with this girl. In 6th grade that girl that was getting bullied became the lead bully of the school.

Dr. Tracy Vaillancourt, Canada Research Chair in Children’s Mental Health and Violence Prevention is calling these people bully-victims (both a bully and a victim). She says that bully-victims tend to have more mental health problems. In a research she did in 2014, she found that most bully-victims have poor social skills and that they are more likely to commit physical bullying because they can’t convince people to support their bullying. She says that the best way to stop the cycle is to stop kids from being bystanders.

This is exactly what were trying to in our Do Not Bully (DNB) campaign. The whole purpose of DNB is to inform students about bullying and raise them as Upstanders and not Bystander. I don’t want to see more victims turn bullies.

Trackback from your site.