WHAT IS BULLYING?

Bullying is a situation which is characterized by intentional assault, verbal or physical, done repetitively, on one or more students against one or more colleagues. The term bullying comes from the English word bully, which means bully, bully. Even without a name in Portuguese, is perceived as a threat, tyranny, oppression, intimidation, humiliation and abuse.
"It's a form of violence, the fastest growing in the world," said Cleo Fante, educator and author of Bullying Phenomenon: How to Prevent Violence in Schools and Education for Peace (224 pp., Ed Verus, tel. (19 ) 4009-6868). According to expert, bullying can occur in any social context, such as schools, universities, families, neighborhoods and workplaces. What at first glance it may seem a simple harmless nickname emotionally and physically can affect the target of the offense.
Besides a possible isolation or decrease in school performance, children and adolescents who undergo humiliations racist, defamatory or separatist podesm present psychosomatic illnesses and suffer from some type of trauma that influence personality traits. In some extreme cases, the bullying gets to affect the emotional state of the young so that he chooses solutions tragic as suicide.