Harassment, Intimidation, Bullying

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Harassment, Intimidation, Bullying
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New Definition

• Includes ANY gesture,
  (Middle finger, hand gesture)
• ANY written, verbal or physical act,
  (Notes, hitting, texting, name calling)
• ANY electronic communication (Texting, Facebook,
  Formspring, Twitter, My Space)
• Can be a single incident or series of incidents

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Motivation behind

• ANY actual or PERCEIVED characteristic
• Examples Race, color of skin, religion,
  ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual
  orientation, gender identity, mental/ physical
  and/ or sensory disability or any other
  distinguishing characteristic

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Location

• On school property
• At school-sponsored function
• On a school bus
• Off school grounds (including cyberspace)

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Conditions in addition to causing a substantial
disruption or interference

• Is insulting or demeaning to a student or group
  of students
• Creates a hostile environment for a student by
  interfering with the students education or
  causes harm physical or emotional

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Types of Bullying

• Physical
• punching,
• shoving,
• acts that hurt people
• Verbal
• name calling,
• teasing,
• making offensive remarks

"Fag"
"Loser"
"Jew"
"Nigger"
"Whore"
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• Indirect
• Spreading rumors
• Keeping certain people out of the group
• Getting certain people to gang up on others

• Cyber
• Sending insulting messages by e-mail, text
  messaging, and/or chat rooms to the victim or to
  other about the victim.

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You the Bully

• Think about your actions before reacting
  impulsively or aggressively
• Seek help from a trusted adult (guidance
  counselor, teacher, parent)
• Think about how others are feeling. How would you
  feel if you were the victim?
• It is okay to talk about your emotions.

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If you are being Bullied

• First tell an adult what is going on
• Develop friendships with others that have similar
  interests (join a club, sport, etc.)
• Ask for help from a trusted friend and/or adult
  to come up with a solution (guidance counselor)

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You the Bystander

• Be empathetic
• Help to intervene with guidance from an adult
• If you do nothing but have knowledge of the
  bullying, you will be looked at the same as the
  bully.

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Student Expectations

• WAMS prohibits the active or passive support of
  acts of harassment, intimidation, and/ or
  bullying.
• Students are encouraged to support their peers
  by
• Walking away from acts of harassment,
  intimidation, and bullying when you see it.
• Peacefully attempt to stop the act of harassment,
  intimidation or bullying.
• Provide support to peers who have been subjected
  to harassment, intimidation or bullying.
• Report acts of harassment, intimidation and
  bullying to an adult (Teacher, guidance
  counselor, Mr. Kelly and/ or Ms. Butler)

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Where do you go for HELP?

• Talk to an adult
• Parent/ Guardian/ Family (Not a sibling)
• Teacher
• Ms. Trasatti, Ms. Vogdes
• Coach
• Mr. Kelly, Ms. Butler

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• The world is a dangerous place,
• not because of those who do evil,
• but because of those who look on
• and do nothing!
• Albert Einstein