School bullying among school students

Page: 49-51

Sumitra Chahar (Department of Education, J.G. College of Education, Sirsa, Haryana)

School rivalry is increasing day by day in India and is of growing concern for parents, teachers, and social thinkers. Bullying occurs at all age levels, but peaks in late childhood to middle adolescence, ages 9-15, and begins to decrease after these peak periods (Hazler, 1996). Common bullying activities that adolescents in are involved name-calling, teasing, taunting, ridiculing, obscene gestures, prejudice, threatening, hitting, kicking, rejection, or intentional expulsion from a group. The present paper reviews on various risk factors in the development of bullying behaviors among school children.