This defines bullying and harassment, mandates schools have a anti bullying/harassing behavior policy, and training for all staff over the policy.
What is Senate Bill 526
This type of bullying can leave marks on the body
What is Physical Bullying
Any acts directed against people or property that are motivated by prejudice based on race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, social affiliation, ability or appearance.
What is Bias Incidents/Hate Crimes
Most bullying occurs this way
What is verbal
What is Workplace Bullying?
This type of bullying is heard by the target and/or others.
What is Verbal Bullying
This gender bullies withing social groups, is more covert and there is more ephasis on verbal, social and realtional bullying
What is Girls?
While bullying exists in all grade levels, this particular school age group has more reported bullying than the other grades.
What is Junior High, or Middle School
Mistreatment that is intentional, Imbalanced and Repeated is considered this.
What is Bullying?
This bullying involves indirect, covert attempts to affect the target's reputation or social standing.
What is social/relational bullying
This gender bullies outside social groups, is more direct and more likely to use physical aggression.
What is Boys?
The time frame it takes for most bully-target patterns to be established into the school year.
What is 6 weeks
Deliberate, Hurtful, purposeful, instrumental, & goal-directed
What is Intentional mistreatment?
Any repeated unwanted behavior of a sexual nature perpetrated upon one individual by another and may be verbal,visual, written or physical.
What is sexual harassment
Behavior learned early and becomes resistant to change if it persists beyond age eight.
What is Aggressive Behavior?
True or False
Children do tell on bullies because they aren't afraid of it getting worse and feel someone can help them if they do tell.
What is false
When someone is stronger, more aggresive, bolder & more confident than average and bully weaker and more timid people who won't retaliate or be assertive.
What is Power Imbalance?
This form of bullying is dangerous since the mean kids feel freer to do things online that they would never do in reality due to anonymity of online communications. Plus they can accuse someone of using their identity to do it.
What is Cyberbullying
True or False
Bullying most often occurs as school in places with little to no supervision and students desire the teachers to intervene when they see it occuring.
What is True
If we follow the Senate Bill 526 and report any bullying that we see occuring or have reliable information of a student or staff member being bullied or harassed than we could reduce bullying by up to this.
What is 50%