Bullying can come in different ways that are not always face to face, at Corona High out policy is much different. If you are a new student to corona you must know that verbal, visual, social, and physical violence are all considered bullying. When someone with more power unfairly hurts someone with less power repeatedly, it's considered bullying. According to the National Association of School Psychologists approximately 160,000 students miss school everyday for fear of being bullied.
When it comes to verbal violence it's calling names, threatening comments, spreading rumors, sexual harassment, ridicule, and abusive language. Visual violence is drawing degrading pictures, glaring, smirking, and stalking. Social violence is excluding a student, betraying trust, and sabotaging a friendship. Then physical violence is
Hitting, shoving, grabbing, kicking, spitting, and blocking a path.
This policy applies whenever a student is on school grounds, traveling to and from school or a school sponsored activity, during the lunch period whether on or off campus, during a school-sponsored activity, and or otherwise related to school attendance. If you are being bullied realize that it is not your fault and you need to ask for help.
Keep an accurate record of the dates, times and locations that you have been bullied. Talk to a trusted adult and report it to a teacher, counselor, or administrator.
Nature of Bullying
Bullying surprisingly can be direct or indirect. No matter where you go you will see different types of bullying. Rarely will you run into direct bullying, but sometimes you do. The difference between direct and indirect is direct is when the bully confronts the victim face to face. Indirect bullying is anything else that makes the victim feel hurt, uncomfortable. As children grow up and go through different schools bullying changes. This is because maturity differs through each individual. Sometimes as kids get older they bully