Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Big Bully A student who is in elementary school is overweight. The student is often made fun of, called names and verbally abused. The teacher has gained information on this situation and wants to handle it as delicately and effectively as possible. What should be her first plan of action? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I would have a strict set of consequences for students who violate the "No Bullying" policy that the school and my classroom would enforce. As an activity, I would have a "Words Hurt" project that my students would do at the beginning of the year. Each student would watch a short video about bullying and we would have a class discussion, but then the students would be required to write as many "hurtful words" that they could think of onto a sheet of paper. Afterwards, I would share those words that my students picked and I would make a poster/bulletin board with all of the words that the students deemed hurtful and those words would be off limits to the students using them toward another student. Throughout the year, we could even add those words to the wall. Consequences would be such as a phone call or note home to parents, ISS, or a referral to the Principle's office. I would also remind students that each and every one of them had come up with words that they felt were hurtful and it is never okay to say something to someone that would hurt their feelings.