School bullying

School bullying is a type of bullying in which occurs during the time period a child is in school.Bullying can be physical, verbal, or emotional.

There is some research suggesting that a significant portion of “normal” school children may not evaluate school-based violence (student-on-student victimization) as negatively or as being unacceptable as much as adults generally do, and may even derive enjoyment from it, and they may thus not see a reason to prevent it, if it brings them joy on some level.^[4] Both males and females have differently toll on how they bully their victims. Men/boys usually bully other boys in physical ways like pushing, punching, and aggression, whereas females are more likely to spread rumors, talk bad about the person, etc. Although they are different ways in which boys and girls do bullying a lot of the ways may be similar as well, and they both can be bullied or be the bullies^.

Bullying can also be perpetrated by teachers and the school system itself. There is an inherent power differential in the system that can easily predispose to subtle or covert abuse (relational aggression or passive aggression), humiliation, or exclusion — even while maintaining overt commitments to anti-bullying policies.

Anti-bullying programs are designed to teach students cooperation, as well as training peer moderators in intervention and dispute resolution techniques, as a form of peer support.

Types of school bullying include

Physical

Physical bullying is any unwanted physical contact between the bully and the victim. This is one of the most easily identifiable forms of bullying. Examples include:

• punching
• pushing
• shoving
• kicking
• inappropriate touching
• tickling
• headlocks
• school pranks
• teasing
• fighting
• use of available objects as weapons

Emotional

Emotional bullying is any form of bullying that causes damage to a victim’s psyche and/or emotional well-being. Examples include:

• spreading malicious rumors about people
• keeping certain people out of a “group”
• getting certain people to “gang up” on others (It also could be considered physical bullying)
• making fun of certain people
• ignoring people on purpose – the silent treatment, also known as ‘Sending to Coventry‘
• harassment
• provocation
• saying hurting sentences

Verbally

Verbal bullying is any slanderous statements or accusations that cause the victim undue emotional distress. Examples include:

• directing foul language (profanity) at the target
• using derogatory terms or playing with the person’s name
• commenting negatively on someone’s looks, clothes, body etc. – personal abuse
• tormenting
• harassment
• being laughed at
• teasing