Kindness Matters (Anti-Bullying Campaign)
EXETER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
Anti-Bullying Commitment
2023-2024
Anti-Bullying Commitment
2023-2024
Exeter Unified is committed to a safe and welcoming environment for all individuals who work for or attend our schools. In order to create a safe and secure environment, all types of verbal and physical harassment, in person or via social media, are prohibited and subject to immediate disciplinary action (BP/AR 5131.2, California Education Code 48900.4 and EC 48900 R).
What is Bullying?
According to StopBullying.gov bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
According to StopBullying.gov bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.
In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:
- An imbalance of power. Students who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people.
- Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once or have the potential to happen more than once.
There are three types of bullying These acts may occur in person or via an electronic act (social media).
- Verbal bullying is saying or writing mean things. Verbal bullying includes teasing, name-calling, inappropriate sexual comments, taunting, and threatening to cause harm.
- Social bullying, sometimes referred to as relational bullying, involves hurting someone’s reputation or relationships. Social bullying includes leaving someone out on purpose, telling other children not to be friends with someone, spreading rumors about someone, embarrassing someone in public.
- Physical bullying involves hurting a person’s body or possessions. Physical bullying includes hitting/kicking/pinching, spitting, tripping/pushing, taking or breaking someone’s things, making mean or rude hand gestures.
Be An Upstander:
Everyone involved in a bullying situation is negatively affected- including the bully, the one who is bullied, the bystander who helps the bully and the witness. Negative outcomes for the targets of bullying included depression, anxiety, and lower self-esteem. An Upstander is a person who speaks or acts in support of an individual or cause, particularly someone who intervenes on behalf of a person being attacked or bullied.
EUSD has adopted a new, anonymous, reporting system called SAY SOMETHING. If you feel someone is being bullied, or you are being bullied, either text 79775, call 1-844-5-SAYNOW, or use the attached QR code. You may also contact your school site administrator for support.
Thank you and WELCOME to the 2023-2024 school year. Let’s make it great together.
Carol Swanson,
Director of Student Services and Special Education
Dude, Be Nice.
