RECOGNIZE IT!...REJECT IT!...REPORT IT!
When students are hassled or disrespectfully treated over a period of time by others this is what we call BULLYING. This may or may not involve pushing or hitting them, and the use of emails and text messaging. It could involve name-calling, interference with property, excluding them, making nasty remarks about them, jeering at them, making fun of them.
·Students who regularly get hassled or disrespectfully treated by others feel badly undermined and embarrassed - so badly that they want to hide it rather than tell adults. This is a great pity. If they reported it adults could deal with it and bring it to an end.
·If just six students "pick on" someone once each day for a week the targeted student is bullied and upset 30 times in that week. That is bullying and it is unfair and illegal.
·Students have a right to be respected and not to be bullied because of being different, e.g. because of race, culture, ethnicity, skin colour, how tall or small they are, how heavy or skinny they are, whether they are loud and rough or quiet and gentle, whether or not they are good at maths or wear glasses, etc.
·You do not have to like everyone in your class group but you must still respect them. If you dislike some of them you can simply keep away from them if you like but you must not bully them.
·Very often students who bully others do not realize the serious harm they are doing. It is very serious indeed even if it sometimes seems harmless. People have committed suicide because of psychological damage done to them when they were younger. Bullying is very damaging.
·Students who know about bullying and do not report it are helping the bully to continue. If they report the bullying it can be brought to an end and everyone can "live happily ever after" including the bully.
·This school has an anti-bullying team that includes the Student Resource Center to try to sort out bullying before the matter is brought before Heads of Section, Parents, and the Head of School.
·We are not interested in punishing bullies - we simply want bullying to stop – NOW! If a student is identified as hassling others we will quietly meet that student and explain how serious and unfair it is and how bad it feels for anyone on the receiving end. We will then ask for a promise that the bullying will stop and if we get that promise and the bullying does stop then that will be the end of the matter. But it must stop!
·Students who regularly get hassled or disrespectfully treated by others feel badly undermined and embarrassed - so badly that they want to hide it rather than tell adults. This is a great pity. If they reported it adults could deal with it and bring it to an end.
·If just six students "pick on" someone once each day for a week the targeted student is bullied and upset 30 times in that week. That is bullying and it is unfair and illegal.
·Students have a right to be respected and not to be bullied because of being different, e.g. because of race, culture, ethnicity, skin colour, how tall or small they are, how heavy or skinny they are, whether they are loud and rough or quiet and gentle, whether or not they are good at maths or wear glasses, etc.
·You do not have to like everyone in your class group but you must still respect them. If you dislike some of them you can simply keep away from them if you like but you must not bully them.
·Very often students who bully others do not realize the serious harm they are doing. It is very serious indeed even if it sometimes seems harmless. People have committed suicide because of psychological damage done to them when they were younger. Bullying is very damaging.
·Students who know about bullying and do not report it are helping the bully to continue. If they report the bullying it can be brought to an end and everyone can "live happily ever after" including the bully.
·This school has an anti-bullying team that includes the Student Resource Center to try to sort out bullying before the matter is brought before Heads of Section, Parents, and the Head of School.
·We are not interested in punishing bullies - we simply want bullying to stop – NOW! If a student is identified as hassling others we will quietly meet that student and explain how serious and unfair it is and how bad it feels for anyone on the receiving end. We will then ask for a promise that the bullying will stop and if we get that promise and the bullying does stop then that will be the end of the matter. But it must stop!