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  • Bullying Prevention
     
    "There is no safety in silence"

    "School safety and security is everyone's responsibility"

    Safety is one of our district’s top priorities and to help safeguard our school community. Our district is now using SafeSchools Alert, a tip reporting service that allows students, staff, and parents to submit safety concerns to our administration four different ways:

       

    1.    SafeSchools


    Phone: 219-942-TIPS  

    2.    Text: 219-942-TIPS

    3.     Email:  1190@alert1.us

    4.   Web: http://1190.alert1.us

    You and your child can easily report tips on bullying, harassment, drugs, vandalism or any safety issue you're concerned about through SafeSchools Alert. When you submit a tip, be sure to use our district’s identification code: 1190 in your communication.

    Every tip SafeSchools Alert receives about our district is immediately logged in the system and our administration is notified so that they can investigate and take appropriate action. Tips may also be submitted anonymously if you prefer.

    Together, using SafeSchools Alert, we can make our district a safer place to work and learn! Thanks in advance for your support.
  • What is Bullying?
    Please visit the SafeSchools website and watch the “Overview” and “What is Bullying?” video links.
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    Please review the Bullying Assessment Checklist for Categories and Types of Bullying.
    Report and Stop Bullying
     
     
    "Bullying" (per IC 20-33-8-.2) means overt, unwanted, repeated acts or gestures, including verbal or written communications or images transmitted in any manner (including digitally or electronically), physical acts committed, aggression, or any other behaviors, that are committed by a student or group of students against another student with the intent to harass, ridicule, humiliate, intimidate, or harm the other targeted student and create for the targeted student an objectively hostile school environment that:
    (1) places the targeted student in reasonable fear of harm to the targeted student's person or property;
    (2) has a substantially detrimental effect on the targeted student's physical or mental health;
    (3) has the effect of substantially interfering with the targeted student's academic performance; or
    (4) has the effect of substantially interfering with the targeted student's ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, and privileges provided by the school.
     
    Bullying fosters a climate of fear and disrespect that can seriously impair the physical and psychological health of its victims and create conditions that negatively affect learning. Bullying includes unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. The imbalance of power involves the use of physical strength, or popularity to access embarrassing information to control or harm others. Bullying can occur anywhere (in-school or outside of school) and at any time – both during and after school hours. Bullying can include physical bullying, verbal bullying, social/relational bullying, and electronic/written communication.
     
    Physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. It includes hitting/kicking/punching, spitting, tripping or pushing, taking or breaking someone’s things, and making mean or rude hand gestures.
     
    Verbal bullying involves saying mean things. It can include teasing, name-calling, inappropriate sexual comments, taunting, or threatening to cause harm. 
     
    Social/relational bullying involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships. Social bullying involves telling other children not to be friends with someone, leaving someone out on purpose, spreading rumors about someone, or embarrassing someone in public.
     
    Electronic/written communication involves cyber-bullying, collective or group note writing, any bullying undertaken through the use of electronic devices (computer, cell phones).
     
     
     
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