Bullying can happen anywhere. Bullying takes place mostly where kids hang out together, for example, at school during free play, recess or lunchtime, or after school. Bullying may occur in the classroom but it is usually non-physical such as cruel teasing, making faces at someone, or making unkind and sarcastic comments. Bullying at school can happen at any place and any time.
- Yamaji wangi
- ‘Bullying just happens at school because that is where our kids are … it is a meeting place.’
- Yamaji parent/carer
- Yamaji wangi
- ‘They bully each other at the swimming pool and at the footy oval. When they have a big football carnival they get jealous of the team that is winning and they start fighting too.’
- Yamaji Elder
- Yamaji wangi
- ‘Mainly in the playground, on the oval or the undercover area. When the teacher leaves the class, even for a second, the other kids start teasing and calling names and when we tell the teacher they don’t do nothing.’
- Yamaji student
- Yamaji wangi
- ‘Teasing all the time, where there is no teacher; and when we are playing or in sports time it happens.’
- Yamaji student
