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Policy on Disruptive Social Behaviours, Aitchison College
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● Actions that cause annoyance, hardship, physical or psychological harm to junior or newer students.
● Exploiting the services of a newer or junior student for completing the academic tasks assigned to an
individual or a group of students.
B. What is the difference between bullying & hazing?
Hazing is done by an older student (who has been in the school for longer) or a group of older students to a
newer student or by a senior student to a junior student whereas bullying is done by any individual(s) to another.
2.3 Harassment
A. Discriminatory Harassment
Harassment is a form of discrimination involving threatening, harmful or humiliating conduct based on
ethnicity, color, religion, caste, sect, sex, gender, disability or any other identifying feature. Harassment results
in a hostile environment that interferes with or limits a student’s ability to participate in or benefit from the
services, activities or opportunities offered by a school.
B. Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment refers to unwanted conduct of sexual nature that can occur online or offline. It is when an
individual’s dignity is violated and/or when they are made to feel intimidated, degraded and humiliated
resulting in a hostile, offensive or sexualised environment. This may include (note: this is not an exhaustive
list):
● Sexual comments such as telling sexual stories, making sexual remarks about clothes and appearance
and calling someone sexualised names.
● Sexual “jokes” or taunting.
● Physical behaviour such as deliberately brushing against/touching someone.
● Displaying photos/videos or drawings of sexual nature.
● Upskirting.
Online sexual harassment may include (note: this is not an exhaustive list):
● Consensual or non-consensual sharing of inappropriate videos/images.
● Sexualised online bullying.
● Unwanted sexual comments, messages on online or digital platforms e.g. gaming chat rooms, social
media.
● Sexual exploitation, coercion and threats online.
● Coercing others into sharing images of themselves or performing acts they are not comfortable with
online.
C. What is the difference between bullying & harassment?
Bullying and harassment are similar as they are both about:
● Power and control.
● Actions that hurt or harm another person physically, emotionally or sexually.
● An imbalance of power between the target and the individual demonstrating the negative behaviour.
● The affected individual having difficulty stopping the action directed at them.
The distinction lies in the fact that when the perpetrator targets an individual based on personal characteristics,
it is classified as harassment.