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Hazing/Harassment/Intimidation/Bullying/Menacing/Cyberbullying/Teen
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The Board is committed to providing a
positive and productive learning environment. The principals
and the superintendent are responsible for ensuring that
these policy are implemented.
 Definitions
District
Hazing
Harassment,
intimidation or bullying
Protected
class
Cyberbullying
Retaliation
Menacing
Reporting
Complaint
- May 18, 2012 School Board Meeting - David
Wohlman
Complaint
- June 19, 2013 School Board Meeting - Girl's
Basketball
ODE
26-page report "Findings
of Fact, Conclusions and Final
Order"
The
complaint goes into the Conciliation
process.
Bully
Solutions
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take our anonymous electronic survey if:
You've
been bullied
or You've
seen bullying
Resources
Issues:
Bullying
,
Bullies
,
Bullying
Girls
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Bully
- The Movie,
Cyber
Bullying
,
Cyber
Suicide ,
Gay
Teen Suicide,
Hazing
,
Sexual
Harassment ,
Suicide
,
Teen
Suicide
Monthly
Column on Bullying by Kathy Noll
Advice
for Parents of Both Victims and
Bullies
Are
Certain Children more Likely to be
Bullied?
Bully
Advice for Kids
What
can You do to Help Your
Child?
Child
Violence - How to Prevent Your Child from Becoming a
Statistic
Empowering
Kids to Deal with Bullies and Low
Self-esteem
Is
Bullying that Big a Deal?
Q&A About
the Book Taking the Bully by the
Horns
Should
the School Contact the Bully's
Parents?
What
can Schools do to Help Stop Bullies
& Violence?
What
can You do to Help Your
Child?
What
can We to do about "Bus
Bullies!"
What
to do About Bullies
For
Teachers & Parents of Bullies - Some useful
Questions to Ask
Merchandise
and No
Bully Zone signs
Books - Taking
the Bully by the Horns
.
Sexual
Harassment
FaceBook ap - facebook.com/stopbullyingspeakup
- Take the pledge!
Legal
Reference
4:27
How
to Save a Life
Definitions
“District”
includes district facilities, district premises and
nondistrict property if the student is at any
district-sponsored, district-approved or
district-related activity or function, such as field trips
or athletic events where students
are under the control of the district.
“Hazing”
includes, but is not limited to, any act that recklessly or
intentionally endangers the mental health,
physical health or safety of a student for the purpose of
initiation or as a condition or precondition
of attaining membership in, or
affiliation with, any district-sponsored activity or grade
level attainment, (i.e., personal
servitude, sexual stimulation/sexual assault, forced
consumption of any drink, alcoholic beverage,
drug or controlled substance, forced exposure to the
elements, forced prolonged exclusion from
social contact, sleep deprivation or any
other forced activity that could adversely affect the mental
or physical health or safety of a
student); requires, encourages, authorizes or permits
another to be subject to wearing
or carrying any obscene or physically burdensome article;
assignment of pranks to be performed or other
such activities intended to degrade or humiliate regardless
of the person’s willingness to
participate.]
“Harassment,
intimidation or bullying” means any act that
substantially interferes with a student’s
educational benefits, opportunities or
performance, that takes place on or immediately adjacent to
district grounds, at any
district-sponsored activity, on district-provided
transportation or at any official district bus
stop, that may be based on, but not
limited to, the protected class status of a person, having
the effect of:
1. Physically harming a student or
damaging a student’s property;
2. Knowingly placing a student in
reasonable fear of physical harm to the student or damage to
the student’s
property;
3. Creating a hostile educational
environment including interfering with the psychological
well being of the
student.
“Protected
class” means a group of persons distinguished,
or perceived to be distinguished, by race, color,
religion, sex, sexual orientation,
national origin, martial status, familial status, source
of income or disability.
“Cyberbullying”
is the use of any electronic communication device to
[convey a message in any form (text,
image, audio or video) that defames,
intimidates, harasses or is otherwise intended to harm,
insult or humiliate another in
a deliberate, repeated or hostile and unwanted manner
under a person’s true or false identity.
In addition, any communication of this form which
substantially disrupts or prevents a safe and
positive educational or working
environment may also be considered
cyberbullying][harass, intimidate or
bully].[ Students and staff
will refrain from using personal communication devices or
district [property] [equipment]
to harass or stalk another.] 
“Retaliation”
means [hazing, ]harassment, intimidation[,
menacing] or bullying and acts of
cyberbullying toward a person
in response to a student for actually or apparently
reporting or participating in the investigation
of [hazing, ]harassment, intimidation[,
menacing] or bullying and acts of cyberbullying
or retaliation.
“Menacing”
includes, but is not limited to, any act i t intended to
place a district employee, student or third
party in fear of imminent serious
physical injury.]
Reporting
Employee position title will take
reports and conduct a prompt investigation of any report of
an act of (1) harassment,
intimidation or bullying and acts of cyberbullying. Any
employee who has knowledge of conduct
in violation of this policy shall immediately report his/her
concerns to the [employee position title]
who has overall responsibility for all investigations. Any
student who has knowledge of conduct in violation
of this policy or feels he/she has been [hazed,
]harassed, intimidated[, menaced] or bullied
and acts of being cyberbullied in
violation of this policy [shall][is encouraged
to] immediately report his/her concerns
to the [employee position title] who has overall
responsibility for all investigations. This report
Required by state law House Bill 2599 (HB
2599). All other bracketed language exceeds the requirements
of HB (1) 2599
and is under Board authority ORS 332.107.
may be made anonymously. A student may
also report concerns to a teacher or counselor who will
be responsible for notifying the
appropriate district official.
Complaints against the principal shall
be filed with the superintendent. Complaints against
the superintendent shall be filed
with the Board chair.
The complainant shall be notified of
the findings of the investigation and, as appropriate, that
remedial action has been taken.
The complainant may request that the
[superintendent] review the actions taken in
the initial investigation, in accordance
with [administrative regulations][district
complaint procedures].
[The district
[shall][is encouraged to] incorporate into
existing training programs for students and staff
information related to the prevention of,
and the appropriate response to, acts of harassment,
intimidation or bullying and acts
of cyberbullying.]
The superintendent shall be
responsible for ensuring annual notice of this policy is
provided in a student or employee
handbook, school and district’s Web site, and school
and district office[ and the development of
administrative regulations, including
reporting and investigative procedures].[ Complaint
procedures, as established by the
district, shall be followed.]
Legal Reference(s):
Complaint
Read at the March 18, 2012 District
17C School Board Meeting by Dave Wohlman
Dear Brooking/Harbor School
Board,
My name is David Wohlman and I’m
the father of a 6th grade student at AzaleaMiddle School in
Brookings, OR. I have gone before the School Board to make
them aware of the realities of my son’s life in our
school district and the unsucessful attempts we his parents
have had in the past and present to improve the situation.
There are three points I wish to discuss.
1 - My number one role as a parent is
to protect and love my child. When I must relinquish that
protection to someone else – It is my duty to make sure
that they are capable of insuring his safety and that his
mental and physical well-being is as important to them as it
is to me. This has not been the case since our arrival in
Brookings in 2006 and it has continued to worsen up to this
day. The root of my child's problem is an escalating
bullying environment and what I perceive to be a lack of
knowledge, training and ability for it to be improved or
eliminated.
2 – The staff of these schools
take on the responsibility of keeping each child motivated,
safe and educated. When any child is the victim of bullying
they feel none of these things. In order to help rather than
actually contribute to continuation of the bullying , each
staff member must themselves be educated as to what bullying
is, what it’s effects are and trained to administer the
proper ways to deal with each unique situation. My
interactions and conversations with many members of the
staff have given me first-hand belief that there is no
unified understanding of bulling, the effects it has on
victims and the correct way to deal with the perpetrators or
these victims.
3 – It is the responsibility of
all Superintendents and all Principles of all schools to
effectively train their staffs, communicate with students
and parents and ultimately take responsibility of their
actions or non-actions. It is my strong opinion that our
administrators have not done these things. My complaint has
nothing to do with them personally, and I would hope that
they are filled with good intentions. But in this instance,
their good intentions and decided patterns of ineffective
actions and non-communication have not spared my child from
intense and debilitating abuse. As the highest ranking
administrators, I therefore must hold them personally
responsible for the current mental state of my
child.
- My son and all victims of bullying
are VICTIMS. They cannot be told to “grow thick
skin” or that they have to “learn to ignore”
this abuse – all quotes I have been told by members of
our school district teaching staff. They cannot be
encouraged to conform in order to escape their torment. They
cannot be disciplined for finally standing up to their
abusers.
My child no longer enjoys attending
Azalea Middle School. He is a smart, imaginative and
creative child that has been both mentally and physically
abused by both bullying children and (in essence) the very
people appointed to protect him. It breaks my heart. He is
in dire need of counseling and it is personally asking to be
home schooled or to attend the local Christian/Charter
School (if it ever gets to become a reality). We are asking
for the School Board to accept the financial burden of these
needed things and to actively explore the
actions/non-actions of these administrators.
The President of the United States
recent;y made a televised national speech on the US bulling
epidemic, it is the subject of a heart-wrenching documentary
“Bullying” that should be mandatory viewing for
all staff-parents-students and it is a severe problem in
Brookings-Harbor. This epidemic is hurting children and
stealing their ability to receive a quality education.
Ignoring the problem and the parents/children that are
asking for help makes the problem worsen daily. This should
be the among the most important issues discussed by the
School Board.
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