Bullying & Cyberbullying

The Texas Administrative Code Sec. 37.0832 states that bullying is a single significant act or a pattern of acts by one or more students directed at another student that exploits an imbalance of power and involves engaging in written or verbal expression, expression through electronic means, or physical conduct. This includes cyberbullying.

• Has the effect or will have the effect of physically harming a student, damaging a student’s property, or placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to the student’s person or of damage to the student’s property
• Is sufficiently severe, persistent, or pervasive enough that the action or threat creates an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational environment for a student
• Materially and substantially disrupts the educational process or the orderly operation of a classroom or school

OR

• Infringes on the rights of the victim at school 

• Physical bullying: using physical force or aggression against another person (e.g., hitting)
• Verbal bullying: using words to verbally attack someone (e.g., name-calling)
• Social/relational bullying: trying to hurt someone through excluding them, spreading rumor's or ignoring them (e.g., gossiping)
• Cyberbullying: using electronic media to threaten, embarrass, intimidate, or exclude someone, or to damage their reputation (e.g., sending threatening text messages).