IMPLEMENTING THE SCHOOL BULLYING PREVENTION SYSTEM IN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS OF THE BELGOROD REGION
School bullying as a type of unacceptable behavior of students is considered by researchers to be an old phenomenon with new specific features. The definite psychological characteristics of children of the digital era: empathy drop, communicative culture weakness, the displacement of pickup games as a unique means of assimilation of social norms, the entry of new digital agents of socialization are the triggers of increasing child aggression. Some scientists consider it the background of the time-consuming harassment characterized by force imbalance. The development of information technologies has led to the spread of new forms of network violence, which is actively penetrating the school environment. Negative results of the personal development of all the participants in the «cycle of bullying» allow considering bullying as a signal. The article is based on the results of the project «Creating and implementing a system to prevent school bullying in educational institutions of the Belgorod region» (2017-2019). The goal of the project team was to reduce the number of schools with a high and medium risk of bullying by at least 10%, and to reduce the number of children in the sociometric risk group in 22 districts of the Belgorod region by at least 7% before the end of 2019. The research method is a longitudinal one. Empirical methods: project-based techniques, questionnaires. Methods of processing the results obtained - qualitative analysis and quantitative analysis. The method of interpretation of the obtained results is a structural one. During the project implementation, a system of bullying prevention was developed and tested in 22 educational organizations in 22 districts of the Belgorod region. As the result of its implementation the risk of school bullying in pilot educational institutions was reduced. The results of the project clearly demonstrated a clear correlation between the risk of bullying at schools reduction and the school atmosphere improvement; the number of children in the sociometric risk group reduction; and public opinion about school bullying in the parent and teacher community reconsideration.