HRP: ANTI-BULLYING: DON’T BE MEAN ON THE SCREEN
Bullying is an intentional form of 1. Deliberate. The bully intends to hurt
inflicting pain to someone; could be physical,
verbal, emotional, or psychological. It could
damage one’s health, wellbeing, and
learning. Since students are now engaging in
online distance learning, cyberbullying could
circulate on the internet. To prevent this, we
can all play a role in preventing cyberbullying
to have a great change in the virtual school
community.
Objectives:
Students will:
1. Learn how to show respect to others
and be aware of how one can be
unique from the other;
2. Be aware of how bullying can happen;
and
3. Know and respect others’
individuality.
Day 1: Lecturette
Bullying negatively impacts the youth
today. It is a repetitive unwanted aggressive
behavior by youth or group of youths that can
bring harm or distress to a target person. This
can be through physical, psychological, social
harm. Bullying can result in injuries of social
and emotional distress, self-harm, or even
death.
Common Types of Bullying:
 Physical: Hitting, kicking, and tripping
 Verbal: name-calling and teasing
 Relational/Social: Spreading rumors
and leaving out of the group
 Damage to property of the victim
 Cyberbullying: Sending messages or
images through the internet or mobile
phones.
Forms of bullying:
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the target.
2. Repeated. The bully attacks the same
person oftentimes.
3. Power Imbalanced. The bully chooses
targets, whom he perceives, are
vulnerable.
Consequences of Bullying:
Psychological Effects. Bullying can
lead to mental health problems such as
depression, low self-esteem, aggression, and
anxiety.
Physical Effects. Due to dealing with
trauma and stress, students who are victims
of bullying most likely think of ending their
lives by self-inflicting behaviors, suicides, and
sleep disorders.
Academic Effects. Bullying can greatly
affect studying negatively. They tend to be
absent from the class and lose interest in the
subjects as they seem to be conscious of
their surroundings.
WHY IS BULLYING HAPPENING?
There is no right reason to bully
anyone. However, becoming a bully is
determined based on one’s family
backgrounds, upbringing, and many others
such as:
Environmental Factors:
Low self-esteem. Students who
become bully tend to have low self-esteem.
However, the bullies try to offset this feeling
by bringing pain to someone so that he feels
that has power over the bullied student.
Lack of compassion and empathy.
Bullies often lack these. They react
aggressively to someone whenever he feels
threatened. This makes the bullies insensitive
to the situation of others.
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Societal Factors:

Peer groups. This has contributed a

lot to bullying. Bullying happens usually in
peer pressure, in which the person is being
influenced by the other to join the act.

Craving attention. People tend to bully

a certain target to get attention from other
people and be perceived as brave and
confident from his acts.

Dysfunctional families. People that

have family problems are more likely to
become a bully due to being unable to
express their feelings at home. Abuse and
neglect from their own family could also be a
factor. They may do this to others because he
also experiences it inside their own homes.
Day 2: Accepting Others’ Individuality
Becoming different from the rest can
make one stand out among the others.
Having a different culture, religion, belief can
make a person be a target of bullying
Activity: Accepting Others’ Individuality
Procedure:
1. Ask students to prepare a clean sheet
of paper to write things down.
2. Instructions: Think of three friends
that you would like to observe for this
activity. Write their names and
describe them through the given
descriptions on each row.
3. Ask three students to share their
answers.
Processing Questions:
1. Which among the descriptions is the
most observable?
2. Which among the descriptions are
difficult to observe? Explain.
3. What can you say about the
differences that you observed among
these three persons?
4. In what ways do these people differ?
Day 3: Respecting Individual Differences
Individual differences make us all
unique from others. We all differ in physical
appearance, behavior, thoughts, strengths,
weaknesses, interests, and alike. We need to
respect the differences among others as we
should also accept the different facets of
ourselves.
Ask students:
1. Does someone get your respect
because of their intelligence? Do
you give someone respect
because they are smart?
2. Is it about them being at a certain
age? Do you give respect more to
older people than the younger
ones?

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3. Does someone need to earn your
respect? (If yes, ask them how
can respect be earned.)
4. Does someone get your respect
for just being a human?
Sources:
https://www.helpguide.org/articles/relations
hips-communication/making-good-
friends.htm

Remember that respect is earned. A

prestigious person in an organization should
be respected because of his job title.
However, if this person does not even respect
you, how can you respect someone who
cannot even give respect to others? He must
know to respect others to be reciprocated to
him. Not giving respect is not the same as
being rude.

Activity: RESPECT ONESELF AND OTHERS

Procedure:

1. Ask students to prepare a clean sheet

of paper.
2. Instructions: Write on your paper how
and when do you wish to feel
respected in school.
3. Ask at least three students to share
their answers.
4. After this, at the back of their papers,
ask them to finish the sentence:
 My teacher respects me when they…
 I respect my teacher by…
 My classmates respect me when…
 I show respect to my classmates by…

Processing Questions:

1. How important is “respect” in our

lives? What are the benefits of people
treating each other with respect?
2. Describe one person you respect in
your life. What does this person do to
earn your respect?
3. Does everyone deserve respect? Why
or why not?

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