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Student Harassment

William Allan Kritsonis, PhD



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 seriousforms 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.



Forms of Harassment

Physical

Verbal

Relational

Cyber

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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.




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



What is Harassment ?

Relational Harassments occurs when students

disrupt another

student’s peer

relationships throughleaving them out,

gossiping, whispering

and spreading rumors.

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Cyber Harassment refers to the use of

cell-phones, text

messages, e-mails,

instant messages, webblogs and postings to

bully another student

in any of the ways

described above.

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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)



Who do Bullies Target?

They target Children that are

Smaller

Younger

Weaker



Locations of harassment in schools

Playground (recess)

Classroom

Hallways

Lunchroom

Off campus



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.

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Common Characteristics of

Harassment

A good student who normally loves schoolsuddenly hates school

A student becomes fearful of coming to school

A student becomes depressed and is unable toconcentrate

A formerly good student has a noticeable drop inperformance, resulting in poor grades.

A student who was formerly content considerssuicide.



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



Court Cases in Student Harassment

Davis v. Monroe County Board of Education,the Supreme Court, in a 5 - 4 decision, heldthat such monetary damages may berecovered only where the district has "actual

notice" of the harassment and is "deliberatelyindifferent" to the harassment. The Court alsonoted that the harassment must be so"severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive"

that it deprived the student victim of access toeducational opportunities or benefits providedby the school district.




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




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 educationprogram.



REFERENCES

Burstyn, B. N., & Tallerico, M. (2004). Politicsand Paradox! The Case of Urban Alternativeschool. Planning and Changing, 35 (1), 22-55.

Dedman, B. (2000). Bullying, torment oftenled 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/



REFERENCES

Snell, L., Volokh, A., School ViolencePrevention: Strategies to Keep Schools Safe(2005) Retrieved November 2, 2005, fromhttp://www.rppi.org/ps234/

Svoboda, E. (2004) Everyone loves a bully .Psychology Today. (pp. 1-20).

Espelage, D. (2001). Schoolroom torment .People (pp. 91-92).

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