Prompt: What strategies does your school use to send an anti-bullying message to students?
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Explicitly, schoolwide? Not a ton. All freshman go to a cyberbullying presentation by our counseling department, who are joined by our dean and school resource officer from the local police department. And while I’m glad this is presented to all freshmen, it is a bit heavy on scare tactics of online activity. There is nothing said about creating a positive digital identity.
Within class, there is a lot of behavior regulation that can be done. We loop with our students for two years, and as we get to know kids more - and kids get to know each other more - there is much less nastiness said between students.
However, the transferring these actions to the public sphere - when kids know they are out of earshot of adults - continues to be an issue.
We all need to do more in this area, I think.
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