Is It Bullying?
Bullying is different from a regular "disagreement" because it involves an imbalance of this.
What is Power?
This is the most important thing to do with a mean message or post before you delete it.
What is take a screenshot?
This person watches bullying happen but doesn't say or do anything.
What is The Bystander?
This is the difference: "Snitching" is to get someone in trouble; "Reporting" is to keep someone ______.
What is Safe?
This is the official US government website for all things related to bullying prevention.
What is stopbullying.gov?
For a behavior to be called bullying, it usually has to be "repeated," meaning it happens _______.
What is more than once / over and over?
This 2025 safety feature on apps like Instagram and TikTok allows you to hide a bully’s comments from everyone but them, so they don't get a "reaction."
What is Restrict?
This person takes a stand and helps the person being targeted.
What is The Upstander?
This "D" strategy involves using a distraction, like asking a random question, to "break the momentum" of a bully.
What is Distract?
In Florida, this law requires schools to have a plan for investigating and stopping bullying.
What is The Jeffrey Johnston Stand Up for All Students Act?
This type of bullying doesn't use fists or words, but instead uses social exclusion and spreading rumors to hurt someone's reputation.
What is relational aggression?
This term describes someone who posts your private information—like your home address—online to encourage others to harass you.
What is Doxing?
Research shows that most bullying stops within 10 seconds when this person speaks up.
What is a peer or classmate?
This "D" strategy involves asking a teacher, coach, or parent to handle the situation.
What is Delegate?
These are two common physical or emotional signs that someone is being bullied.
What is Not wanting to go to school, headaches, anxiety, or "losing" belongings?
True or False: If you say "just kidding" after a mean comment that was meant to embarrass someone, it is still considered bullying.
What is True?
This Florida-based app allows students to report bullying or school threats anonymously and directly to law enforcement.
What is FortifyFL?
These are people who don't start the bullying but join in once it has begun so they can feel "safe" or "cool."
What are reinforcers or followers?
If you are afraid to speak up in the moment, you can still be an Upstander by doing this "check-in" after the bully leaves.
What is offer support or show empathy to the target?
True or False: In 2025, schools can often discipline students for cyberbullying that happens off-campus if it makes the school environment unsafe.
What is True?
This term refers to the feeling that you cannot escape or change a bullying situation, which can happen if it goes on for a long time.
What is Learned Helplessness?
Explain the "Permanent Record" of the internet: Why is cyberbullying often harder to stop than in-person bullying?
What is It can happen 24/7 and creates a "digital footprint" that is hard to delete?
This psychological effect explains why people are less likely to help if they are in a large group, because they think someone else will do it.
What is the Bystander Effect, or, Diffusion of Responsibility?
These are the "Three Ds" of intervention:
What is Direct, Distract, and Delegate?
This term refers to "standing in someone else's shoes" to understand their pain.
What is Empathy?