ABCP Policy | Page 40

I. DEFINITIONS Bullying may consist of one or more of the following: 1. Threats to inflict a wrong upon the person, honor or property of the person or on his or her family. 2. Stalking or constantly following or pursuing a person in his or her daily activities, with unwanted and obsessive attention. 3. Taking of property. 4. Public humiliation, or public and malicious imputation of a crime or of a vice or defect, whether real or imaginary, or any act, omission, condition, status, or circumstance tending to cause dishonor, discredit or expose a person to contempt. 5. Deliberate destruction or defacement of, or damage to the child’s property. 6. Physical violence committed upon a student, which may or may not result to harm or injury, with or without the aid of a weapon. Such violence may be in the form of mauling, hitting, punching, kicking, throwing things at the student, pinching, spanking, or other similar acts.