MEAN TEENS- Prevention of social aggression at school

“MEAN TEENS”
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Creating a Peaceful School
Creating a Peaceful School
Middle and High School
Comics Workbook
Prevention of Social
Aggression at School
MEAN TEENS
Stuart W. Twemlow, Ph.D. & Frank C. Sacco, M.D.
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SOCIAL BULLYING
When you arrive at Middle, Junior, or High School you will have
to face the MEAN TEENS that are your peers at school. This
problem can seem worse when you first get to a new school.
Making people hurt is sick! Shame and humiliation is not
necessary. Everybody should be able to come to school and not
have to worry about being teased, picked on, left out, tricked, or
threatened.

The first step in making your school free from social bullying is
to start thinking and talking about it. Most students handle these
issues among themselves. Adults usually are around, but not in-
volved in the day-to-day bullying.
This workbook is designed to stimulate thinking, writing, and
talking about social bullying. Stand up for safe and creative
schools for yourself and your friends. Try to become aware of
social or relational aggression IN YOUR SCHOOL. When you
see a peer being bullied, notice it, think about it, and somehow
get involved. Do not just watch, the next victim may be YOU or
someone you care about.
Teachers are trying to be helpful. Students have to start the
process and use the teachers as helpers in creating a safe school.
“MEAN TEENS”
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What is Social Aggression?
It is humiliating and shaming a peer.
• Teasing- Public verbal put-downs that make a peer feel shame in front of
other peers.
• Rumors- Targeting someone with mean and untrue stories that make a
peer feel humiliated behind their back.
• Ostracism- Knowingly leaving a peer out of group activities.
• Harassment- Reheated, unwanted social and/or physical contact
between peers.

• Mean Tricks- Planned public humiliations causing a peer to be publicly
shamed or made fun of.
• Physical Bullying- Pushing, tripping, grabbing, poking, holding, pinch-
ing, sex grabs.
• Threatening or Hate Speech- Targeting an individual or group with
threats of violence or physical harm.
• Intimidation- Face to face threat that causes fear or public humiliation.
• Exploitation- Taking advantage of a weaker peer and taking money, ser-
vices, or favors in exchange for a fake friendship.
• Intolerance and Hate- Peers who express and condone racist, sexist, or
other intolerant ideas that target specific groups.
“MEAN TEENS”
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CYCLE OF REVENGE & RETALIATION
Bullying focused on
a person or group
Ongoing public shame
and humiliation
Isolation of
target
Victim group plans
to get even
Victim’s plan is
talked about seriously

How violence builds up at school.
Step One: Targeting
Step Two: Fueling
Step Three: Fringe
Group Forms
Step Four: Research
and Recruitment
Step Five: Leakage and
Pleas for Help
EXPLOSION
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MEAN TEENS
“MEAN TEENS”
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“MEAN TEENS”
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MEAN TEENS
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MEAN TEENS
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“MEAN TEENS”
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Creating a Peaceful School
MEAN TEENS
“MEAN TEENS”
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What do you think the point of this comic is?
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What is mean about this comic?
Make up your own comic showing more social bullying or show a positive way of dealing with the situation:
Name:__________________________________________________ Date:_______________
Creating a Peaceful School