• Someone threatens to beat you up at school, including when walking to or from school, when you get off the bus, while talking to you on your cell phone or while you are online.  
• Someone is taking something of yours without your permission.
• Someone is spreading rumors about you or your family.
• Someone is embarrassing you in front of others by either calling you names or doing something to you like hiding your books, pulling your seat out from under you, etc.
• Someone is telling other kids not to talk to you or be friends with you. Someone continues to shove into you in the halls and says it is always an accident.
• Someone is sexually harassing you. (following you around, whistling at you, making comments about your body or doing something to your body, touching you inappropriately, etc.)

Why do people bully?
Two basic reasons: Have a deep troubling need of their own and is picked on or feels that their life is not very successful. They try to make themselves feel better by picking on someone else. They fall into a trap by thinking that bullying is just the cool thing to do in front of their peers. Too often, a bullies behavior is encouraged and not stopped. Witnessing bullying and not reporting it is encouraging bullying.

All reports of suspected bullying shall remain confidential. Click on the button to complete an anonymous bullying report.