00000cab a22000004cb4500 IPP-00000643011 IPP 20220708112318.0 220708s2020 xx d | ||r |||||eng|| eng Leyaley, Rhonda Vail G. Discerning the bully and the bullied in the perspective of the bullied 2020 references Bullying is still an issue in schools and has become a nightmare among learners and parents as well. This issue is not experienced in the Philippine schools but is also a problem worldwide. This research tried to gain more understanding about this issue in the local context. The research used qualitative research design and used interviews and the respondents' reflection papers to gain insights from selected junior and senior high school students and newcomers college students. It was found out that verbal bullying is mostly experienced by the students, and 'teacher bullying' was identified to impact their morale greatly; the bullied has negative and positive coping mechanism from being bullied. The results of the study further validate other researchers on the causes of bullying. Foremost is they were once bullied. Other reasons are social discrimination and social comparison; parents and the social comparison; parents and school seem not to take bullying as social discrimination and social comparison; parents and the school seem not to take bullying as a serious matter, so they just tend to advise the bullied not to retaliate. Bullying does not stop after the bullied was confronted but instead will turn their attention to other individuals. Bullying School bullying KSU Research Journal Vol. 16, no. 1 (Jun. 2020), 95-104 Article FI