摘要：The aim of this study is to investigate the fact of upright/vertical bullying. In this study, on duty teachers who
were bullied by their students were determined and interviewed. The study has been formed in qualitative design. Among the
qualitative research designs phenomenology which is suitable to the nature of the study has been used. In the study open
ended interview has been used as the means of data collection. Categorical analysis one of the content analysis types has been
used to analyze the data. According to the results of the study, it has been found that teachers are exposed to group focused
bullying, high school students mostly bully in tenth grade and this decreases as they grow, there are problems in students’
family life and values, media, internet and social environment trigger bullying, teachers are bullied by order of verbal,
emotional and mixed bullying. Among the reasons of exposure to bullying are the teachers’ inadequacies in classroom
management, the personality of teacher, being a female teacher, the decline of classroom atmosphere and especially bad
instruction, the worsening of physical and mental health. It has been suggested that teachers should be supported in terms of
classroom management in general and particularly coping with such problems. In addition to these, in media there should be
programs about bullying.
