No Name Calling Week

No  Name-Calling Week is observed during the third week of January to  educate students, teachers, and the public on the harms of name-calling.  . People have been  called unpleasant names for their weight, height, intelligence, sexual  orientation, and others things they have little or no control over.  While some consider name-calling harmless fun, victims of such names  generally feel insecure, ashamed, and bullied, to extents that cause  them to lose their self-esteem, feel unwanted in their immediate  environments, and suffer emotional distress. Name-calling inflicts  psychological injuries on victims and forces some of them into seclusion  or to consider suicide.