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Bullying Prevention @ IWHS

Bullying Prevention & Awareness

Bullying is defined as a situation in which a student is exposed repeatedly and over time to negative actions on the part of one or more students. Negative actions can include inappropriate gestures, written statements, verbal remarks, or physical acts of aggression that place the student in reasonable fear of harm to his person or property, or that has the effect of insulting or demeaning any student in such a way as to interfere with their education.

Bullying most often will occur when a student asserts physical or psychological power over or is cruel to, another student perceived to be weaker than they are for an ongoing period of time.

Bullying revolves around the basic premise that there is some imbalance of power between the aggressor and the victim. This can be either physical or psychological in nature. Therefore, conflicts and arguments that develop between friends or students of comparable social and physical standing do not fall into the arena of bullying. These situations need to be mediated and are met with consequences in accordance with the School Handbook, but they are typically not considered bullying-related incidents.

REPORT AN INCIDENT ANONYMOUSLY* 

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Download Incident Reporting Form (PDF)

 

Other ways to report bullying:

  1. Safe2Help
  2. CrisisGo Student App (on school provided devices)

Types of Bullying

In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:

  • An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people.
  • Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once.

 

Types of bullying:

  • Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things. Verbal bullying includes:
    • Teasing
    • Name-calling
    • Inappropriate sexual comments
    • Taunting
    • Threatening to cause harm
  • Social bullying, sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships. Social bullying includes:
    • Leaving someone out on purpose
    • Telling other children not to be friends with someone
    • Spreading rumors about someone
    • Embarrassing someone in public
  • Physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Physical bullying includes:
    • Hitting/kicking/pinching
    • Spitting
    • Tripping/pushing
    • Taking or breaking someone’s things
    • Making mean or rude hand gestures

Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Electronic technology includes devices and equipment such as cell phones, computers, and tablets as well as communication tools including social media sites, text messages, chat, and websites.

Examples of cyberbullying include mean text messages or emails, rumors sent by email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or fake profiles.

Cyberbullying is different because kids who are being cyberbullied are often bullied in person as well. Additionally, kids who are cyberbullied have a harder time getting away from the behavior.

  • Cyberbullying can happen 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and reach a kid even when he or she is alone. It can happen any time of the day or night.
  • Cyberbullying messages and images can be posted anonymously and distributed quickly to a very wide audience. It can be difficult and sometimes impossible to trace the source.
  • Deleting inappropriate or harassing messages, texts, and pictures is extremely difficult after they have been posted or sent.

NOTE:  For the school to have jurisdiction over cyberbullying events, one of the following criteria must be met.

  1. Occurred on school property, on school vehicles, at school bus stops, or at school-related functions or activities.
  2. By use of devices or software that is accessed through a computer, computer system, computer network, or other electronic technology of the school.
  3. Off-campus and results in a disruption of the educational process.

Related Documents

Bully Prevention Policy

Bullying Response Plan

 

RESOURCES

 

Stopbullying.gov

A federal government website managed by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. It has resources to prevent bullying at different environments, as well as how to respond to bullying.

http://www.stopbullying.gov/prevention/index.html

Common Sense Media

An organization led by concerned parents and individuals with experience in child advocacy, public policy, education, media, and entertainment.

Resources for Kids and Teens

http://www.athinline.org/

http://www.nick.com/thebighelp/digital-citizen-hub-page.html

http://www.thatsnotcool.com/

http://pbskids.org/webonauts/

http://www.nsteens.org/

Resources for Parents

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/cyberbullying

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/uploads/pdfs/k-5-familytip-cyberbullying.pdf (for elementary school K-5)

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/uploads/pdfs/6-12-familytip-cyberbullying.pdf (for middle school and high school)

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/5-ways-to-stop-cyberbullies-0

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/bullying-is-everybodys-business

https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog

 

 

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