Over the next few weeks, I will be going into classrooms to provide a presentation on bullying. I wanted to provide you all with the definitions used for further communication at home and to clarify how we will be defining bullying at school.
The following is based on the Second Step Bullying Curriculum:
Bullying: when someone keeps being mean to someone else. It is repeated on purpose multiple times. The person it is happening to hasn’t been able to make it stop. It is unfair and one-sided.
Unfair and one-sided: The person who is bullying has to have more power than the other person.
Examples of more power: Size (bigger and stronger), amount of people (more than one person), social status, developmental stage, not being able to get the unkind behavior to stop
One-sided means the person who is being bullied is also not being unkind to the other person in other instances.
Children were also taught and reminded about the 3 R’s to be supportive bystanders to bullying:
Recognize - know when something is bullying vs. unkind
Report - Report to any trusted adults in school or outside of school
Refuse - stand up to the bully
Please reach out with any questions.
Best,
Sarah Woods (swoods@gdrsd.org)
(and/or Jill Jarvis jjarvis@gdrsd.org)
