Bullying
These pages provide you with valuable information and resources for bullying prevention. For example, signs of bullying, how to deal with bullying, definitions, external websites, FHSD Student Safety Policies and videos such as a recent Dateline MSNBC news segment entitled, “My Child Would Never Bully.” This news segment shows simulated real-life bullying situations with hidden cameras with valuable insight into how kids respond to bullying when they think no one is looking.
Here are some helpful websites to address bullying:
Bully Stoppers
· Bullying Statistics
· Charity Guide - Prevent Bullying
· Cyber Tip Line
· Cyberbully Help
· FHSD Safe Kids
· Kids Health Bullying & Violence
· KidScape
· Love Our Children USA
· MayoClinic Help – Stop bullying
· Missouri Violence Hotline
· My Secure Cyberspace
· Restarts
· OLWEUS Bullying Prevention Program
· PBS Kids – It’s My Life
· Stop Bullying Now
· Stop Cyberbullying
· Teaching Tolerance
· Wired Safety
· Youth Frontiers
· Bullying Statistics
· Charity Guide - Prevent Bullying
· Cyber Tip Line
· Cyberbully Help
· FHSD Safe Kids
· Kids Health Bullying & Violence
· KidScape
· Love Our Children USA
· MayoClinic Help – Stop bullying
· Missouri Violence Hotline
· My Secure Cyberspace
· Restarts
· OLWEUS Bullying Prevention Program
· PBS Kids – It’s My Life
· Stop Bullying Now
· Stop Cyberbullying
· Teaching Tolerance
· Wired Safety
· Youth Frontiers
Here are some videos that address bullying:
BrainPop (free bullying video)
· My Kid Would Never Bully - Dateline NBC
· President Obama & First Lady Conference on Bullying Prevention
· My Kid Would Never Bully - Dateline NBC
· President Obama & First Lady Conference on Bullying Prevention
At Central Elementary, we are committed to maintaining a learning and working environment free of any form of bullying or intimidation by students toward District personnel or students on school grounds, or school time, at a school sponsored activity or in a school related context as stated in Bullying Policy 2655 of the District Board Policy and Regulations document.
The safety of students and staff in our schools and community is of primary importance. If you suspect that a student is being bullied please contact your school’s principal, counselor or school resource officer.
Missouri School Violence Hotline
The Missouri's School Violence Hotline accepts reports of bullying and then that information is forwarded to the District. Students and parents can call 1-866-748-7047 and receive a live voice Monday - Friday 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. with voicemail after hours. Reports can be made 24 hours a day on the following website www.schoolviolencehotline.com. This year texts messages reports of bullying will also be accepted by texting "REPORTITP" to 84741.
What is bullying?
Bullying is the intentional action by an individual or group of individuals to inflict physical, emotional or mental suffering on another individual or group of individuals. Bullying occurs when a student communicates with another by any means including telephone, writing, cyber bullying or via electronic communications, with the intent to intimidate, or inflict physical, emotional, or mental harm without legitimate purpose, or physically contacts another person with the intent to intimidate or to inflict physical, emotional, or mental harm without legitimate purpose. Physical contact does not require physical touching, although touching may be included.
What is cyber bullying?
Cyber bullying is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor. Once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyber stalking. Adult cyber-harassment or cyber stalking is NEVER called cyber bullying.
Signs of bullying
A child may indicate by their behavior that he or she is being bullied. If your child shows some of the following signs, bullying may be responsible and you might want to ask if someone is bullying or threatening them. Children may:
· Be frightened of walking to and from school
· change their usual route
· not want you to go on the school bus
· beg you to drive them to school
· be unwilling to go to school (or be 'school phobic')
· feel ill in the mornings
· begin truanting
· begin doing poorly in their school work
· come home regularly with clothes or books destroyed
· come home starving (bully taking dinner money)
· become withdrawn, start stammering, lack confidence
· become distressed and anxious, stop eating
· attempt or threaten suicide
· cry themselves to sleep, have nightmares
· have their possessions go missing
· ask for money or start stealing (to pay the bully)
· continually 'lose' their pocket money
· refuse to talk about what's wrong
· have unexplained bruises, cuts, scratches
· begin to bully other children, siblings
· become aggressive and unreasonable
· give improbable excuses for any of the above
How do you deal with bullying at school?
The safety of students and staff in our schools and community is of primary importance. If you suspect that a student is being bullied please contact your school’s principal, counselor or school resource officer.
Missouri School Violence Hotline
The Missouri's School Violence Hotline accepts reports of bullying and then that information is forwarded to the District. Students and parents can call 1-866-748-7047 and receive a live voice Monday - Friday 7 a.m. until 6 p.m. with voicemail after hours. Reports can be made 24 hours a day on the following website www.schoolviolencehotline.com. This year texts messages reports of bullying will also be accepted by texting "REPORTITP" to 84741.
What is bullying?
Bullying is the intentional action by an individual or group of individuals to inflict physical, emotional or mental suffering on another individual or group of individuals. Bullying occurs when a student communicates with another by any means including telephone, writing, cyber bullying or via electronic communications, with the intent to intimidate, or inflict physical, emotional, or mental harm without legitimate purpose, or physically contacts another person with the intent to intimidate or to inflict physical, emotional, or mental harm without legitimate purpose. Physical contact does not require physical touching, although touching may be included.
What is cyber bullying?
Cyber bullying is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor. Once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyber stalking. Adult cyber-harassment or cyber stalking is NEVER called cyber bullying.
Signs of bullying
A child may indicate by their behavior that he or she is being bullied. If your child shows some of the following signs, bullying may be responsible and you might want to ask if someone is bullying or threatening them. Children may:
· Be frightened of walking to and from school
· change their usual route
· not want you to go on the school bus
· beg you to drive them to school
· be unwilling to go to school (or be 'school phobic')
· feel ill in the mornings
· begin truanting
· begin doing poorly in their school work
· come home regularly with clothes or books destroyed
· come home starving (bully taking dinner money)
· become withdrawn, start stammering, lack confidence
· become distressed and anxious, stop eating
· attempt or threaten suicide
· cry themselves to sleep, have nightmares
· have their possessions go missing
· ask for money or start stealing (to pay the bully)
· continually 'lose' their pocket money
· refuse to talk about what's wrong
· have unexplained bruises, cuts, scratches
· begin to bully other children, siblings
· become aggressive and unreasonable
· give improbable excuses for any of the above
How do you deal with bullying at school?
- Tell your parents or other trusted adults; they can help stop the bullying
- If you are bullied at school tell your teacher, school counselor or principal. Telling is not tattling.
- Do not fight back. Do not try to bully those who bully you.
- Try not to show anger or fear. Students who bully like to see that they can upset you.
- Calmly tell the student to stop or say nothing and walk away.
- Use humor, if this is easy for you to do. (For example, if a student makes fun of your clothing, laugh and say, “Yeah I think this shirt is kind of funny-looking too.”)
- Try to avoid situations in which bullying is likely to occur. You might want to:
- Avoid areas of the school where there are not many students or teachers around.
- Make sure you are not alone in the restroom or locker room.
- Sit near the front of the bus.
- Do not bring expensive items or lots of money to school.
- Sit with a group of friends at lunch and on the school bus.
- Take a different route through hallways or walk with friends or a teacher to your classes.