CHAPTER I - Introduction and Background of the study

CHAPTER III
“Introduction and Background of the Study”

A. Introduction
Phoebe Prince is a wonderful and talented 15-year old girl. She was bullied ever since 6th grade, she said her classmates were talking about her since she got pimples and acne. Her family wasn’t rich, they couldn’t afford socks for her. She said she never cared about the fact that her family couldn’t buy her even socks. She knew they were trying hard. She never had cellphone, nice shoes, or anything really nice, instead she wears hand-me-downs clothes from cousins and clothes from Good will. Her problem was that her friends usually mocked her everyday in the classroom to what she wears. She remembered what every word came out of their mouth: "Your so f-ing ugly, ew." "Your really wearing that sh-t?" "EW OH MY GOD, you are seriously wearing that?"
    The Bullying eventually continued and she cried every day and every night. She was getting beat up with textbooks, too by her classmates. She said she had told the teacher, who comforted her and yet done nothing but informed her parents. On the second teacher that comforted her, she stood in front of the class and yelled at the 'bullies’. That made her situation worse. She drank a bottle of sleeping pills, when she was 11 but her mother made her vomit it.  She was scared, she lost her confidence. Finally, after being bullied for years, she finally dropped out and homeschooled. And yet when her past classmates humilate her in front of the street, that night, she hung herself to death.
    Phoebe Prince’s story is just as worse as many millions of story. As you can see, Bullying is everywhere--schools, work and at public places. This kind of problem was never completely solved. And we will get possible answers or solutions to this present burden in the society that keeps us trapped in a terrible nightmare. As worse as it can get, suicide becomes a very common headline in the newspaper but the most common cause is bullying. In time, we will know all about this problem.

B. Statement of the problem
    1. What is Bullying?
    2. How often does Bullying occurs?
    3. What are the different positive and negative effects of bullying?
    4. Who are the bullies and the victim of bullying?
     5. What are the different factors that affects the bully and its victim?
    6. How can we stop it?

C. Significance of the problem
    The problem is very essential in the society to provide a good answer to the multiple questions of why is our society and government not that productive. The problem is about Bullying, which is an important factor on the degrading of morality of humans. This problem is important because the knowledge we will gain can be also used by the future generation as their reference/source. This will broaden our minds with cautious details about it.
D. Hypothesis
    As students of HCA, we should give concern on this matter. Our hypothesis is that by finishing this term paper, we would be able to define the purpose of the bully and the victim of bullying in the society. Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.



E. Scope and limitations of the study
    We have conducted our study in St. Mary’s Rafaela, where we surveyed 25 students by a shade-only questionnaire. We browsed books as references in National Library of the Philippines. Overall, we have researched for 3 months.

E. Definition of terms
Bullying- to treat abusively, to affect by means of force (source: www.merriam-webster.com)
St. Mary’s Rafaela-is a private school in Novaliches, where we conducted our research.