What is Bullying?

What is Bullying? 

  1. As defined by the school corporation, bullying means aggressive behaviors that involve unwanted negative actions that are repeated over time and involve an imbalance of power.
  2. As defined by IC 20-33-8-.2, bullying means overt, unwanted, repeated acts or gestures, including verbal or written communications or images transmitted in any manner (including digitally or electronically), physical acts committed, aggression, or any other behaviors, that are committed by a student or group of students against another student with the intent to harass, ridicule, humiliate, intimidate, or harm the targeted student and create for the targeted student an objectively hostile school environment that:
    1. Places the targeted student in reasonable fear of harm to the targeted student’s person or property;
    2. Has a substantially detrimental effect on the targeted student’s physical or mental health;
    3. Has the effect of substantially interfering with the targeted student’s academic performance; or
    4. Has the effect of substantially interfering with the targeted student’s ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, and privileges provided by the school.