New Law and Requirements - 14 new Requirements
Board Policy Must Include:
- Statement prohibiting bullying or cyber bullying
- Statement prohibiting retaliation or false accusations
- All pupils are protected
- Policy shall be made known to school employees, volunteers, pupils, parents, legal guardians, and vendors
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Procedure for reporting bullying
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Procedure outlining the internal reporting requirements
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A procedure for notification with 48 hours of an incident report
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Or a waiver from the 48 hours provision
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Procedure for investigation of reports
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Requirement for the Principal or designee to develop a response to re mediate an substantiated incidents
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All substantiated incidents will be reported to the Superintendent
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Procedure to communicate with the parents within 10 days of the completion on the investigation
Current School Board Policy: http://www.rochesterschools.com/Webmaster/policy/BookJ/JICK.htm
Bulling is hereby defined as a single significant incident or a pattern of incidents involving a written, verbal, or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another pupil which:
- Physically harms a pupil or damages the pupil's property;
- Causes emotional distress to a pupil;
- Interferes with the pupil's educational opportunities;
- Creates a hostile educational environment or;
- Substantially disrupts the orderly operation of the school.
Examples of consequences may include,
but are not limited to:
- Admonishment
- Temporary removal from the classroom
- Deprivation of privileges
- Classroom or administrative detention'
- Referral to disciplinarian
- In-School suspension
- Out-of school suspension
- Expulsion
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Examples of remedial measures my include,
but are not limited to:
- Restitution
- Mediation
- Peer support group
- Corrective instruction or other relevant learning experience
- Behavior assessment
- Student counseling
- Parent conferences
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Recommendations from Understanding Bullying
- What if I find out my child is bullying other children ?.0
- Discipline your child. To discipline means to teach.
- Teach your child bullying is not tolerated.
- Do not allow the child to minimize or excuse the behavior
- Make sure the child accepts responsibility.
- Have the bully take ownership of their actions
- Insist the child make amends. Just apologizing isn't’t enough
- Get help if the child has emotional problems.
- Create opportunities for your child to do a good deed
- Teach your child to be a good friend.
Bullying Booklet: http://extension.unh.edu/Family/documents/BullyBro.pdf
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Rochester NH Response to NH Bully Law |
