This document defines and discusses harassment, intimidation, and bullying (HIB). It defines HIB as any gesture, communication, or physical act that is motivated by a personal characteristic and substantially disrupts the school. The document outlines the different types of bullying including physical, verbal, emotional, and cyber bullying. It provides statistics on bullying and discusses why people bully and what to do if one is being bullied.

1. Harassment, Intimidation, &
Bullying
NJ HIB Law
Mrs. Bordas

2. WHAT IS HIB?

3. Harrasment, Intimidation, or
Bullying (HIB)
 Is any gesture, written, verbal or physical act or
electronic communication, single incident or a
series of incidents, that is:
 Motivated either by any actual or perceived
characteristic, such:
◦ race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender,
sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or
a mental, physical or sensory disability, or any other
distinguishing characteristic
 Occurs on school property, school-sponsored
function, on a school bus, or off school grounds
that substantially disrupts or interferes with the
operation of the school or rights of other
students

4. HIB Conditions
 A reasonable person should know under the
circumstances will have the effect of physically or
emotionally harming a pupil or damaging the pupil’s
property, or placing a pupil in reasonable fear of
physical or emotional harm to his/her person or damage
to his/her property; or
 Has the effect of insulting or demeaning any pupil or
group of pupils; or
 Creates a hostile educational environment for the pupil
by interfering with a pupil’s education or by severely or
pervasively causing physical or emotional harm to the
pupil.

5.  Bullying can be
defined as
behaviors that hurt
or scare another
who is vulnerable
or perceived as
weak

6. TYPES OF BULLYING

7. Physical Bullying
What does it look like?
 Pushing
 Shoving
 Spitting
 Kicking
 Stealing
 Threatening
 Verbal Bullying
 Mocking
 Name-calling
 Taunting
 Teasing
 Verbally threatening

8. Emotional Bullying
What does it look
like?
 Giving dirty looks
 Excluding people
 Spreading rumors
 Ignoring

9. Cyber bullying
What it looks like?
 Sending inappropriate
emails
 Sending inappropriate
pictures
 Sending inappropriate
texts
 Prank calling
 Writing inappropriate
blogs
 Writing inappropriate
posts in social
networking sites

10. STATISTICS

11.  1 in 7 students is either a bully or victim
 160,000 students stay home a day because they're
afraid of being bullied
 60% of boys who were bullies in high school had at
least one criminal conviction by the age of 24
 42% of students have been bullied while online

 18-25% of high school students are bullied
frequently

12.  Victims of bullying are more likely to
suffer physical problems such as
common colds and coughs, sore throats,
poor appetite, and night waking. (Journal
of the American Medical Association,
2003).
 Teens that come from homes with little
support are at greater risk for engaging
in bullying behavior
 Physical bullying declines in high school.
Verbal abuse remains.

13. WHY DO PEOPLE
BULLY?

14. Possible Motives
 They are bullied themselves
 Others are doing it and getting away
with it
 They want to feel like they belong
 Makes some people feel stronger,
smarter, or better than the victim
 It keeps others from bullying them

15. WHAT DO YOU DO IF
YOU ARE BULLIED OR
HARASSED?

16. What to do
 Tell an adult whom you trust
 Walk away
 Stay in a group as much as you can so you
won’t find yourself alone with the person
 If it feels safe to do so, stand up to the bully
by telling him or her why you find their
behavior unacceptable
 If you are being harassed online or by phone,
DO NOT REPLY. Print out and/or save the
harassing message. Share them with a
trusted adult.
 Join groups or clubs to meet people

17. What NOT to do
 Don’t bully back or bully someone else
 Don’t keep it to yourself or hope the
problem will just disappear
 Don’t hurt yourself
 Don’t skip school or avoid groups-
Remember up to 160,000 stay home
because of this

18. What happens to the bullied?
 Self esteem drops
 Feelings of overwhelming sadness,
loneliness, or anxiety
 Depression that can carry over into
adulthood
 Dropping out of social situations
 Cutting school and falling behind in
class work

19. GROUP WORK