III.
DEFINITIONS
2. “Verbal bullying” – includes name-calling; making insulting, racist, or rude
remarks, repeated teasing; harassment, threats, and intimidation; and
whispering behind someone’s back.
3. “Social bullying or Relational bullying” – is subtler than other types of bullying.
It involves destroying or manipulating relationships (such as turning someone’s
best friend against him or her). It can mean destroying a person’s status within a
peer group, destroying others’ reputations, humiliating and embarrassing
someone, gossiping or spreading malicious rumors or lies, creating hurtful
graffiti, excluding someone (social rejection or isolation), and stealing a boyfriend
or girlfriend to hurt someone. Displaying negative body language (glaring, casting
dirty looks, and turning your back to someone), threatening gestures, passing
mean notes, and circulating hate petitions (promising to hate someo