Bullying program

[Jess]

Several weeks ago we started the bullying program to be aware of bullying and to prevent it and stop it if we see it. I must be blind because I haven't seen a single bullying incident at my school (it's hard to believe there is bullying - but it DOES happen) - however I know it does happen. bullying is one of the zero-tolerated things at my school.

what is your school doing about bullying?

[kenoloor]

Now that I'm at community college, not a whole lot. But last year, in high school, they were meh. We had an anonymous tipline that nobody knew about, and policies that nobody enforced. The security people might as well not have been there. The administration said they were very anti-bullying, but they didn't do a whole lot about it. Really, though, we didn't have a big bullying problem anyway.

Edit: oh yeah, and then you have the teachers who are obscenely sensitive about this shit, and mistake jokes with harassment. My friend and I were walking through the hallways and I called her a dirty whore, and she cracked up. A teacher overheard and forced me to apologize. I didn't apologize.

[User Deleted]

We don't have any real bullying issues. Sometimes teachers get confused because some kids will insult their friends, but most people know they are kidding. Otherwise the worst thing we have is a few annoying kids, nothing big enough to start any programs.

[TheMatrix]

Oh yeah, our school is one of the most anti-bullying schools in the world. You won't find a single incident of bullying: everybody is all one happy family.
Well, that's what the district wants us to believe. The problem with my district(as well as many others), is that they certainly talk the anti-bullying talk, but never actually walk the anti-bullying walk(if you get what I mean). Even funnier, there's cops(yes, semi-armed cops) walking around the campus during school hours. Yet my school is one of the least ghetto schools in the state.
Most of these programs to "stop bullying" were more in the elementary schools. There, if a "yard-duty"(aka, campus supervisor) saw you "stand up for someone being bullied", you got a "warm fuzzy"(a cotton ball thingy with eyes glued onto it). And yet, there was still bullying. Kids still cried(looking back, it was about rather trivial issues :rolleyes:).

Oh well.

[Giles]

My school doesn't even pretend to have an anti-bullying policy. If it happens then nothing is done about it and even if a teacher does get involved then nothing happens in the long run.

[Modus Operandi]

My school has an anti-bullying policy, but do fuck all to enforce it. The line that every single person gets fed when they come in to report an incident is, "Just ignore it and it'll go away" which is of course total horseshit. There isn't really that much to begin with though, which is nice.

[Love.Hate]

At college we have an anti-bullying week every term, basically it raises awareness of what bullying is, who to contact if you are being bullied and what to look out for.

They dont really seem to care that much, i think that the government wants them to do it, which is why they do.. the only thing i got from it was a free wristband.



We also apparently have a policy somewhere.... not that anyones seen it in years :P