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3rd Grade Bystander Skits

5/19/2015

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Dear 3rd Grade Parents and Guardians,

This week we continued our work on bullying in grade classrooms.  For this lesson, we are focusing on the bystanders, the people who see bullying happen, and their role in helping victims of bullying.  Students learned that when researchers study bullying by asking students what they would do if they saw someone being bullied, the most frequent response is that they would stand up to the student doing the bullying.  However, when bullying is actually taking place, bystanders rarely confront the bully.  The reality is that bullying is scary and it is hard to stand up and put oneself in the position of possibly becoming the next target. 

          What, then, can bystanders do?  As a class, we discussed safer possibilities that can help the student being targeted without having to say anything to the person bullying.  Some ideas students generated include:

·        Get help from an adult

·        Help the targeted student walk away from the bullying

·        Make the targeted student feel included

·        Say something nice to the targeted student

·        Encourage the targeted student to reach out to an adult

Students took these strategies and used them to create their own skits about supporting students who are being bullied.

If you can, please remind your children about the important role of the bystanders in a bullying situation and the safer choices they can make to help.

Thank you for your help supporting this important lesson.

Sincerely,

David Starr

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