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Friday, 17 October 2008 18:42 |
 Adults, like children, resent being bullied, except that adult victims have more options available to them than do child victims. Children cannot escape the school yard, the change room, or the cafeteria. Sometimes, victims do not survive the torture and humiliation of bullying.
In most situations, victims do survive, but carry their emotional scars for a lifetime.
By senior high school, regular bullying incidents are often a thing of the past, but all victims know who the bullies are, and avoid them. By age 16 or 17, bullies and victims are usually moving in different directions in terms of curricular interests in school, therefore their paths rarely cross. Social groupings are clearly defined by this time in a student's life and invisible boundaries have been drawn.
When a child has been repeatedly victimized, certain behaviors and attitudes tend to emerge which are inconsistent with his/her typical behaviors. Often children are too embarrassed and humiliated to report victimization.
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