Student harassment bullying - Lecture Notes William Allan Kritsonis, PhD

1. Student Harassment
William Allan Kritsonis, PhD

2. What Is Harassments?
 Harassment is a form of repeated aggression
that is directed by one or more people
towards another person.
 Also, harassment is some of the most serious
forms of peer harassment involve groups.
People often do things in groups that they
would not do alone. They may be fearful of
losing the group's approval if they don't go
along.

3. Forms of Harassment
 Physical
 Verbal
 Relational
 Cyber

4. What is Harassments ?
 Physical Harassment
 where a student uses
physical force to hurt
another student by
hitting, pushing,
shoving, kicking,
pinching or holding
them down.

5. What is Harassments ?
 Verbal Harassment
 is when a student
uses words to hurt
another student. This
includes threatening,
taunting, intimidating,
insulting, sarcasm,
name-calling, teasing,
slurs, graffiti, put-
downs and ridicule

6. What is Harassment ?
 Relational Harassments
 occurs when students
disrupt another
student’s peer
relationships through
leaving them out,
gossiping, whispering
and spreading rumors.

7. What is Harassments ?
 Cyber Harassment
 refers to the use of
cell-phones, text
messages, e-mails,
instant messages, web
blogs and postings to
bully another student
in any of the ways
described above.

8. The Affects of Being Harassed
 Low self-esteem
 Poor grades
 Loneliness (the need to stay home}
 They become introverted
 Faking sickness (because they don’t want to
face the bullies)

9. Who do Bullies Target?
 They target Children that are
 Smaller
 Younger
 Weaker

10. Locations of harassment in schools
 Playground (recess)
 Classroom
 Hallways
 Lunchroom
 Off campus

11. Who’s More Susceptible to Being
Harassment ?
 In a study of 15,686
students 6th
- 10th
found
that 13-23% of boys
experience being
bullied.
 Also, the same study
concluded that 4-11% of
girls experience the
same torment.

12. Common Characteristics of
Harassment
 A good student who normally loves school
suddenly hates school
 A student becomes fearful of coming to
school
 A student becomes depressed and is unable
to concentrate
 A formerly good student has a noticeable
drop in performance, resulting in poor grades.
 A student who was formerly content
considers suicide.

13. How to Educate Teachers and Fix The
Problem
 Create an anti-
Harassments program
for
 Elementary School
 Middle School
 Junior high School
 Interventions for
 Students Identified as
bullies
 Victims of
harassments

14. Court Cases in Student Harassment
 Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education,
the Supreme Court, in a 5 - 4 decision, held
that such monetary damages may be
recovered only where the district has "actual
notice" of the harassment and is "deliberately
indifferent" to the harassment. The Court also
noted that the harassment must be so
"severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive"
that it deprived the student victim of access to
educational opportunities or benefits provided
by the school district.

15. Court Cases in Student Harassment
 Gebser v. Lago Vista Independent School
District. In Gebser, which was decided in June
1998, the Court held that monetary damages
can be recovered under Title IX where a
school district employee sexually harasses a
student, if a school district official who has the
authority to take corrective measures has
actual notice of and is deliberately indifferent
to the employee's misconduct

16. Court Cases in Student Harassment
 Henkle v. Gregory, 150 F. Supp.2d 1067 (D.
Nev. 2001)Constant harassment,
discrimination, intimidation based on his sex
and sexual orientation, name calling,
assaults, punched in face, lassoed around
the neck, threatened, transferred from school
to school and told to keep silent about his
sexual orientation, put into adult education
program.

17. REFERENCES
 Burstyn, B. N., & Tallerico, M. (2004). Politics
and Paradox! The Case of Urban Alternative
school. Planning and Changing, 35(1), 22-
55.
 Dedman, B. (2000). Bullying, torment often
led to revenge in cases studied. Chicago
Sun-Times, October 15.
 Center for the Prevention of School Violence
(1995) Last retrieved November 10, 2005,
from http://www.ncdjjdp.org/cpsv/

18. REFERENCES
 Snell, L., Volokh, A., School Violence
Prevention: Strategies to Keep Schools Safe
(2005) Retrieved November 2, 2005, from
http://www.rppi.org/ps234/
 Svoboda, E. (2004) Everyone loves a bully.
Psychology Today. (pp. 1-20).
 Espelage, D. (2001). Schoolroom torment.
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