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Bullying Policy In Public Schools

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Issue Brief

 

Bullying Policy In Public Schools - Overview

  

Goal Statement   one sentence that further defines the topic 


  • To provide a safe learning environment for students and teachers.
  • To bring awareness to the act of bullying and identify stratergies to reduce bullying in public schools.  

 

Local/State/National Information   issue briefs on this topic at the local, state, national, global level


 

Policy Options / Program Models   specific policies or program models, grouped by type, that are profiled 


  • Policies
    • Current policy recently approved by Iowa Effective September 1, 2007, Iowa Code Chapter 280 Requires both Public and Nonpublic Schools to establish policies prohibiting harassment and bullying against students by employees, school volunteers, or other students. Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity are covered under the Safe Schools Law. Students' may now seek remedies under both Chapter 216 and Chapter 280. 
  • Programs

 

Glossary of Terms   key words or phrases that the layperson needs to know to understand this issue 


  • Bully: a blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing person who habitually badgers and intimidates smaller or weaker people. [1]

  • Harassment: to annoy persistently; to create an unpleasant or hostile situation for especially by uninvited and unwelcome verbal or physical conduct[2]
  • Target: something or someone fired at or marked for attack; an object of ridicule or criticism[3]
  • Intimidation: to make timid or fearful; to compel or deter by or as if by threats[4]
  • Violence: exertion of physical force so as to injure or abuse[5] 
  • Adolescents: is a transitional stage of physical and mental human development that occurs between childhood and adulthood. This transition involves biological, social, and psychological changes, though the biological or physiological ones are the easiest to measure objectively.
  • Bullying: is a form of abuse. It comprises repeated acts over time that involves a real or perceived imbalance of power with the more powerful individual or group abusing those who are less powerful. The power imbalance may be social power and/or physical power.
  • Counselor: a person that gives advice; a faculty member who advises students on personal and academic problems, career choices, and the like
  • Depressed: feeling extremely sad for a long period of time
  • Target: someone who is made fun of
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Bibliography


Footnotes

  1. http://www.merriam-webster.com/
  2. http://www.merriam-webster.com/
  3. http://www.merriam-webster.com/
  4. http://www.merriam-webster.com/
  5. http://www.merriam-webster.com/

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