• Bullying  
    What are the different types of bullying?
     

    Bullying can be direct of inderent. What bullying takes a direct form, the bully confronts the victim face-to-face. Examples of direc bullying would include situations in which the victim is verbally harassed or threatened, physically attacked (e.g., punched, kicked, pushed down), or socially embarrassed (e.g., taunted, refused a seat on the school bus).
     
    In the case of indirect bullying, the bully attacks the victim's social standing or reputation - usually when the victim is not around. A student is engaging in indirect bullying if he or she spreads malicious gossip or writes insulting graffiti about a classmate, or organizes a peer group to ostracize that classmate. Victims are at a perticular disadvantage in direct bullying because the may never discover the identity of the person or group responsible for the bullying.