Types of bullying

Bullying is divided into two categories:

1. Live Harassment: is the most common among children. Fighting and physical assault.
2. Indirect harassment: is more common among girls and in general from preadolescence. Claim is characterized by social isolation of the individual. This isolation is accomplished by various techniques including: spread rumors, refusing social contact with the victim, threaten to friends, criticize the person referring to their physical features, social group, dress, religion, race, disability, and so on.

Therefore, peer abuse can occur in very different ways. The most common are:

* Speech such as insults, name-calling, to speak ill of anyone, rumors, ...
* Psychological threats to achieve something of the victim, to exercise power over her.
* Physical aggression fights, beatings, but insignificant little things that put pressure on the individual to be made repeatedly, petty theft, ...
* Social isolation, marginalization, ignoring their presence and not counting on him / her normal activities with friends or classmates.

Bullying is an English word that means bullying. Unfortunately, it is a word that is in vogue due to the innumerable cases of persecution and attacks that are being detected in schools and colleges, and are leading many students to live truly frightening situations.

Bullying refers to all forms of aggressive attitudes, deliberate and repeated, which occur without clear reasons, taken by one or more students against another or others. The exercises that bullying does to assert his power over the other through constant threats, insults, assaults, harassment, etc., And thus bring it under its complete control over months or even years. The victim suffers shed in most cases. Intimidating abuse makes you feel pain, distress, fear, so much so that in some cases, can lead to devastating consequences such as suicide.

Specific cases of bullying
In Spain it is estimated that 1.6% of children and young students suffer from this phenomenon on an ongoing basis and 5.7% experience it sporadically. The data vary depending on the source from which it arises and managed approach when studying the phenomenon. A survey by the Institute for Youth (INJUVE) raises the percentage of victims of physical or psychological usual 3% of the students. It states that 16% of children and young people surveyed acknowledged having participated in peer exclusion or psychological aggression.

The Ombudsman notes that in 5% of the students recognized that a classmate hits, while the Institute for Educational Evaluation and Assessment (IDEA) indicates that 49% of the students reported being insulted or criticized in the school, and that a 13.4% saying that they have stuck to their peers.

Free, free. My eyes will even stop my feet. These were among the last words he left Jokin Zeberio written 14 years before committing suicide, jumping into the void with his bicycle, from the top of the walls of Hondarribia, Spain, in September 2004. Jokin had been harassed by his colleagues for years. The constant threats, humiliation, insults, beatings, beatings, they did suffer and led him to death. The fact sounded the alarm, and educational policy, and has generated many debates. But, unfortunately, did not stop the phenomenon. Bullying cases emerge every day and we realize they are not recent or rare.