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Title: Cyberbullying Does Your School District Have the Policies to Deal w/It?


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CyberbullyingDoes Your School District Have the
Policies to Deal w/It?
  • Presented by
  • Bill Bond
  • Safe Schools Specialist
  • Sponsored by VALIC
  • bondb_at_nassp.org

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Is it Bullying or Joking Around?
  • Bullying is an aggressive behavior that intends
    to cause harm, distress, and HUMILIATION
  • It can be physical, spoken word, or electronic if
    a reasonable student would expect it to reach the
    school and its students

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Four Criteria for Bullying
  • 1) Imbalance of power
  • 2) Repeated often
  • 3) One student is humiliated by behavior
  • 4) The other student enjoys the humiliation

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Expectations the most powerful element in
Education negative or positive
  • Dont label a student a bully
  • Focus on behavior of the student and results and
    effects.

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Forms of Cyberbullying
  • Threats Intimidation
  • Harassment Stalking
  • Deformation
  • Peer Rejection/Exclusion
  • Impersonation
  • Publicly posting private information or images

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In a Virtual World
  • Power is not needed
  • Anonymous
  • Little fortitude needed
  • No physiological effect
  • No physical effect
  • No negative peer reaction
  • No enough is enough

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Cyberspace
  • Limitless numbers can view
  • Lasts forever
  • Spreads at light speed
  • Virtual with live pictures
  • Little supervision
  • Always present
  • No refuge

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When is Cyberspace a School Issue?
  • Cyber-bashing is an issue when it
  • disrupts learning
  • compromises the values of the school
  • becomes obscene
  • uses school owned technology

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Cyberbullying or Cyber-bashing
  • Do schools have the responsibility to police
    misbehavior by students for off-campus speech?

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Schools Need to Have in Place
  • Acceptable use policies
  • Internet use contract
  • Cell phone use policy
  • Informal partnerships with parents on technology
    use and policies
  • Code of Conduct Electronic Bullying Policy on or
    off campus

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Preventing Cyberbullying Takes a Whole School
Approach
  • Raising awareness between students, parents, and
    teachers.
  • Keeping digital policies updated.
  • Making reporting of Cyberbullying easy for
    students to do.
  • Evaluate and survey results.

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When Reported
  • Preserve and print the evidence
  • Investigate
  • Support the victim
  • Apply consequences
  • Contain the incident
  • If the law was broken, involve police.

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Challenges for School Districts
  • Occurs in cyberspace
  • Devastation to victim
  • Disruption of learning environment
  • Safety and security of students
  • Individual free speech rights
  • Nexus to school

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All States except MT have anti-bullying laws
  • From 1999 to 2011, 130 bills directed towards
    bullying have become state law.
  • 37 states prohibit cyberbullying in their
    education code,
  • 13 states specify that schools have jurisdiction
    over off-campus bullying behavior if it creates a
    hostile school environment

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Tinker vs. Des Moines ISD
  • School has to demonstrate that the speech
    resulted in a substantial interference with the
    educational environment or right of others

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Tinker v. (1969)
  • While students retain significant first amendment
    rights in the school context, their rights are
    not coextensive with those of adults.

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Hazelwood v Kuhlmeier
  • a US Supreme Court found that school districts
    can impose restrictions on first admendment
    student speech for educational purposes

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Beussink vs. Woodland R-4 School District
  • US District Court found students use of vulgar
    language about school and faculty on an
    off-campus website was protected by the first
    amendment because it was not materially
    disruptive.

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Frederick vs. Morse
  • US Supreme Court found Bong Hits 4 Jesus could
    be viewed as promoting illegal drug use, and not
    offensive speech.

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Kowalski vs. Berkeley Co. Schools4th Circuit,
2011
  • The school districts imposition of sanctions was
    permissible for off-campus speech on Facebook. It
    was sufficiently connected to the school, and
    substantially interfered with orderly operation
    of the school and the other students rights.

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Kowalski v. (2011)
  • It was foreseeable in this case that Kowalskis
    poor conduct on the internet would reach the
    school via computers or smartphones.
  • Where speech has a sufficient nexus with the
    school, the constitution is not written to hinder
    school administrators, good faith efforts to
    address the problem

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These Are Not Consequences for Students
  • Contacting parents of the students involved.
  • Notifying internet host or cell phone carrier.
  • If threats are involved, notify law enforcement.

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Federal Title II Technology Funds
  • Use of E-Rate funds require schools to have a
    Cyberbullying policy in place and instruction in
    internet safety
  • Students should be told in advance that there is
    no expectation of privacy and that use of the
    district system can be monitored.

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Make it Easy to Report Cyberbullying
  • Confidentiality
  • Anonymously
  • Save Cyberbullying Evidence
  • Print out messages or pictures

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Recommended Websites
  • Cyberbullying.org
  • Bullypolice.org
  • bjparis.org
  • Cyberbullying.us
  • Bullycide.org
  • Stopbullyingnow.gov

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VALIC
  • Thank you for attending the session today! I
    welcome the opportunity to bring this topic and
    others related to school safety to your school
    district and can be Sponsored by VALIC
  • For a list of topics or to schedule a
    presentation please visit the NASSP Website
    _at_WWW.NASSP.ORG or call Bill Bond 1-800-253-7746
    ext. 357
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