Sometimes, your friends aren’t really your friends. Maybe they talk behind your back, tell your secrets or your embarrassing stories to the popular kids.

Have you ever gone to school wondering what you did for your friends to be so mean to you? It’s not you, it’s relational aggression.

If you feel trapped by your friendships or hide your true opinions from your friends out of fear, then you are faced with relational aggression.

Know that you can take control, be yourself and be free of those types of harmful friends.

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	Be sensitive to the feelings of others.
	Walk in another’s shoes before judging them.
	Learn to respect others.
	No one’s perfect.
	Everybody’s different - but we all have feelings.
	Learn to like yourself & others will like you too.
	Do a good deed and see how much better you feel.

	1 in 3 students say RA is a big problem at their school
	19% of students do not feel safe at school
	14.5% do not want to come to school because they are afraid that other kids will be mean to them
	17% reported adults do not care about them
	The more relationally aggressive students are the lower academic grades they report.