Physical Bullies: Physical bullies are action-oriented.
This type of bullying includes hitting, punching or kicking
the victim, or, taking or damaging the victim's property.
Verbal Bullies: Verbal bullies use words to hurt or
humiliate another person. Verbal bullying includes
name-calling, insulting, making racist comments and constant
teasing. Its effects can be more devastating in some ways than
physical bullying because there are no visible scars.
Relational Bullies: Relational or relationship bullies
try to convince their peers to exclude or reject a certain
person or people and cut the victims off from their social
connections. This type of bullying is linked to verbal
bullying and usually occurs when children (most often girls)
spread nasty rumors about others, this can be face to face or
indirect (behind their back). The most devastating effect with
this type of bullying is the rejection by the peer group at a
time when children most need their social connections.
Cyber-bullying: relatively new this began surfacing as
modern communication technologies advanced. Through email,
instant messaging, Internet chat rooms and camera cell phones,
cyber bullies forward and spread hurtful images and/or
messages. Bullies use this technology to harass victims 24/7,
across the miles, at warp speed.
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Racist bullying:
preys on people through racial slurs,
offensive gestures, or making jokes about their cultural or
religious traditions.
Sexual bullying:
involves unwanted physical contact
unwanted sexual touching, date-rape or sexually abusive or
inappropriate comments about sexuality and sexual preferences.
Students should always view their bodies as worth caring for
and protecting, respect your body and set verbal and
behavioral limits, sexual harassment usually decreases. Sexual
harassment exists when students are intimidated or terrified,
once they are no longer afraid or embarrassed, they can
respect themselves and others. Address attitudes toward sexual
harassment, respect for body shapes and size, zero tolerance
for teasing or emotional injuries.
Cell Phone
Bullying: A cell phone sends a signal, the caller may have
concealed their number from you, this is information which
phone companies will have on their system, and police may be
able to find out the Bullies phone number. It is the law,
Section 372 (3) everyone who, without lawful excuse, intends
to harass any person by making or causing to be made repeated
telephone calls to that person making anonymous, harassing or
abusive, phone calls, is guilty of a summary offence in which
a criminal record would apply, this also applies to answering
machines, Voice mail, and hang up calls. The phone companies
who provides your cell phone service along with your local
Police will respond to and deal with your complaints about
being telephone-bullying.
Cell Phone
Bullying includes:
• Silent calls / phone harassment
• Abusive verbal messages
• Insulting and threatening texts
• Identity fraud |
