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Please fill out this survey to help us learn more about bullying at our school and help stop it.
Read the Flagstone Elementary Anti-Bullying Statement here.
What is Bullying?
What is Bullying?
What is bullying? DCSD defines bullying as: any written, verbal or pictorial expression, physical act or gesture, or a pattern thereof by a student that is intended to cause distress upon one or more students and is sufficiently severe that it has the effect of:
creating an intimidating, hostile, or significantly offensive environment for the learning or performance of school-sanctioned activities of any student; or
unreasonably interfering with or disrupting the educational performance or participation in any other school-sanctioned activity of any student.
What is NOT bullying? Peer conflict, teasing where everyone is participating, fighting, a mean moment, a dirty look, or accidentally bumping into someone. Mutual conflict where both parties participate is not considered bullying.
What are the different ways bullying occurs?
What are the different ways bullying occurs?
Physical Bullying: hurting someone’s body or possessions
Relational Bullying: hurting someone’s reputation or relationships, such as by excluding them
Verbal Bullying: saying or writing mean things about someone
Cyberbullying: involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others
Think you or someone else might be getting bullied?
Think you or someone else might be getting bullied?
Was the act: Yes No
Was the act: Yes No
Hurtful to your body or feelings? ☑︎ ☐
Hurtful to your body or feelings? ☑︎ ☐
Mean on purpose? ☑︎ ☐
Mean on purpose? ☑︎ ☐
Done over and over again? ☑︎ ☐
Done over and over again? ☑︎ ☐
Unfair? ☑︎ ☐
Unfair? ☑︎ ☐
One-sided? ☑︎ ☐
One-sided? ☑︎ ☐
If you answered yes to these questions:
If you answered yes to these questions:
That's Bullying!
That's Bullying!
You have RECOGNIZED that bullying is happening. What can you do?
You have RECOGNIZED that bullying is happening. What can you do?
REPORT
REPORT
Tell a trusted adult at home or at school about the incident. Assertively tell the person "I need to report bullying." Then fill out this form.
Tell a trusted adult at home or at school about the incident. Assertively tell the person "I need to report bullying." Then fill out this form.
Who can you tell?
Parents
Other trusted family member
Trusted neighbor
Any adult at school
REFUSE
REFUSE
If bullying is happening to you and you are comfortable, assertively tell the person doing the bullying "Stop it. That's bullying."
If bullying is happening to you and you are comfortable, assertively tell the person doing the bullying "Stop it. That's bullying."
Being assertive means that you:
Face the person you're talking to
Keep your head up and shoulders back
Use a calm, firm voice
Use respectful works
BYSTANDER
BYSTANDER
A bystander is someone who sees or knows of bullying happening to someone else. Bystanders have the power to prevent bullying.
A bystander is someone who sees or knows of bullying happening to someone else. Bystanders have the power to prevent bullying.
Use your bystander power to:
Report or help report bullying
Stand up for someone being bullied
Be respectful and kind
Include everyone
Reporting or Tattling?
Reporting or Tattling?
Reporting
Reporting
The child reporting wants to keep themselves or others safe.
The child reporting is concerned about safety.
The problem is important and urgent.
Someone may be hurt or in danger.
An adult is needed to help solve the problem
Tattling
Tattling
The child tattling wants to get someone else in trouble or avoid blame.
The child tattling may have something to gain, such as attention or popularity.
No one is hurt or in danger.
The problem can be solved without an adult.
The child threatens to tell on another in order to control the other child.
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