Standing up for yourself is all well and good if you are being bullied by a physical person but let me paint another scenario. What if you face a constant barrage of demeaning text messages and emails. What if someone takes over your social networking account and does with it as they please? What if someone photoshops your face in a variety of embarrassing pictures and posts them to the whole school? These are all examples of cyberbullying, which is more common than many people in this thread seem to realize.
How do you teach kids to to stand up to something that isn't actually there? Also, if the bullying is something of this nature do you also solve it by giving someone a "whoopin'"?
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