1. Bullying
BOE Policies  
Prohibition Against Discrimination, Harassment, and Bullying  
Discrimination, Harassment and Bullying Complaint Procedure
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Title IX Protection Against Sex Discrimination (Administrative Regulation Related to Sex Offenders)

2. Bullying In The Workplace
Three Major Types:
Bullying At School
Cyberbullying
Bullying In The Workplace

3. What Is Bullying?
Harassment or bullying behavior is any pattern of gestures or written, electronic or verbal communications, or any physical act or any threatening communication that:
(1) places a student or school employee in actual and reasonable fear of harm to his or her person or damage to his or her property; or 
(2) creates or is certain to create a hostile environment by substantially interfering with or impairing someone’s educational performance, opportunities or benefits.

4. Bullying At School
Students can learn and achieve at optimal levels ONLY if they know they are both physically and psychologically safe at school. Furthermore, if they don’t feel safe they are more likely to drop out before high school graduation.
(Rumberger, R.W. (1995) American Educational Research Journal, 32, )

5. Examples Unwanted teasing Threatening, intimidating, stalking,
Cyberstalking, cyberbullying
Physical violence
Theft
Sexual, religious, or racial harassment, public humiliation
Destruction of school or personal property
Social exclusion, including incitement and/or coercion Rumor or spreading of falsehoods

6. Bullying: Trends
Bullying appears to be on the rise. A follow-up study by Dan Olweus in 2002 showed the percentage of victimized students had increased by 50%. Serious bullying by degree and frequency was up by 65%.
The number one reason adolescent boys and girls gave for being targeted for abuse is “I don’t fit in”.
Approximately 160,000 school children stay home each day out of fear, often without telling their parents why.

7. Bullying: Trends Bullying is 4x more prevalent than sexual harassment.
29% of workers 55 years of age or older have been bullied.
18% of disability claims were based on psychological distress attributed to workplace bullying.

8. Where Can This Occur? School premises before, after or during school.
Bus stops.
Any time a child is under the authority of school personnel.
On the bus or other school-related vehicle.
Regular or extracurricular activities.
Any time or place it directly impacts behavior/order within the school.

9. CyberBullying
Cyberbullying can occur in many electronic spaces including:
Chat Rooms or Discussion Posts s
Instant Messaging
Cell phones/Text messages
Webpages
Blogs
FACEBOOK

10. Examples of CyberBullying
Sending mean, vulgar, or threatening messages or images.
Posting sensitive, private information about another person.
Pretending to be someone else in order to make that person look bad.
Intentionally excluding someone from an online group. (

11. Impact of Bullying and Harassment In The Workplace
Fear/Stress/Anxiety
Depression
Physical symptoms
Loss of motivation, concentration, self-confidence and morale
Financial costs
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12. Organizational Culture
Determines what attitudes and behaviors are tolerated and even encouraged.

13. Hint: see Policies1720/4015/7225 when reporting.
You Must Report!
Employees are required to report any actual or suspected violations of this policy.
Reports may be made anonymously!
Hint: see Policies1720/4015/7225 when reporting.