School bullying was never considered as a real social problem until 1980's. The recent escalation in School bullying has gained attention of the masses throughout the world. Several suicide and homicide cases were highlighted by media where bullying was found to be an important factor involved. Out of 37 shooting events in different schools, nearly two third of the shooters were found to be victims of bullying in their life but not particularly in schools. However, the cases where the shooters had been a victim of bullying in a school, the tormented experience was found to play an important role in motivation for the attack. (Dake, Price, & Telljohann, 2003) Why do children bully?

In this research paper, an interview was conducted from a professional psychologist having expertise in this field. She herself was witness to several bullying cases in her early life. According to her, most of the teenagers who are involved in bullying have severe psychological problems. The type of parenting style they face in homes is punitive and they tend to take the frustration out on peers who are physically weaker than themselves. This gives the bullying children a sense of mental satisfaction that they do have some sort of authority, and they can also punish others. Dake, Price and Telljohann (2003) also discussed that students identified as bullies were more likely to come from families having an authoritative style of child upbringing. Similarly, bullies themselves were victims to punitive behavior by their parents.

Bullying isn't Gender Specific

According to the psychologist interviewed, bullying cannot be regarded as a gender specific problem. Bullying in females is mostly verbal and seldom physical, while bullying in males is both verbal...

However, it has more to do with sexual orientation of a person. Students who are gay or lesbians are subjected to more bullying than students having straight sexual orientation. According to statistics, nearly 86% of gays and lesbian students are reported to be bullied throughout their school life. James (2010) also discussed in her research that most of the bullying whether physical or verbal is towards students having same gender sexual orientation, and that no strong evidences of bullying to be gender specific are found yet.
Preventing Bullying

In order to prevent bullying from happening, several other issues are important to consider and observe. Some of which are identifying the victims of bullying, helping them out whenever they are being bullied, identifying the forms of bullying, encouraging students to stand up for themselves, deciding bullying prevention tactics, employing a pro-active approach to bullying and so forth. All of these issues were discussed in the interview. According to the psychologist interviewed, victims of bullying are students who are physically weak or have some sort of disability whether physical or psychological. Similarly, some of the bright students who are physically not strong can be subjected to bullying and due to which, they are more likely to become introvert. The real problem with such victims is to inquire about any such incident because they may find it discomforting and shameful on personal grounds. (Owusu, Hart, Oliver, & Kang, 2011) A solid reason for it could be that the victims can find management reluctant to help. Similarly, most of the witnesses never get involved to prevent bullying to happen, because they may also face danger of retaliation. Sampson (2012)…