This document outlines an anti-bullying policy for a college. It defines bullying as any severe or repeated acts that cause harm or reasonable fear of harm to a student. Bullying includes physical, verbal, cyber acts. The policy applies to all students, faculty, and staff on or off campus, including cyber bullying. It defines different types of bullying and roles in bullying incidents. The college has authority to discipline bullying that occurs on campus, off campus at adjacent properties, during college activities, on transportation, and in cyberspace through technology.
This document outlines an anti-bullying policy for a college. It defines bullying as any severe or repeated acts that cause harm or reasonable fear of harm to a student. Bullying includes physical, verbal, cyber acts. The policy applies to all students, faculty, and staff on or off campus, including cyber bullying. It defines different types of bullying and roles in bullying incidents. The college has authority to discipline bullying that occurs on campus, off campus at adjacent properties, during college activities, on transportation, and in cyberspace through technology.
This document outlines an anti-bullying policy for a college. It defines bullying as any severe or repeated acts that cause harm or reasonable fear of harm to a student. Bullying includes physical, verbal, cyber acts. The policy applies to all students, faculty, and staff on or off campus, including cyber bullying. It defines different types of bullying and roles in bullying incidents. The college has authority to discipline bullying that occurs on campus, off campus at adjacent properties, during college activities, on transportation, and in cyberspace through technology.
This document outlines an anti-bullying policy for a college. It defines bullying as any severe or repeated acts that cause harm or reasonable fear of harm to a student. Bullying includes physical, verbal, cyber acts. The policy applies to all students, faculty, and staff on or off campus, including cyber bullying. It defines different types of bullying and roles in bullying incidents. The college has authority to discipline bullying that occurs on campus, off campus at adjacent properties, during college activities, on transportation, and in cyberspace through technology.
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Anti-bullying Policy
That as a matter of policy the College prohibits bullying in all its forms, regardless of means, place and time of its commission.
This policy applies to all students, faculty staff and personnel’s of the college.
A. DEFINITION OF BULLYING
Bullying shall refer to any severe or repeated use by one or more students of a written, verbal or electronic expression, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another student that has the effect of actually causing or placing the latter in reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm or damage to his property; creating a hostile environment at school for the other student; infringing on the rights of the other student at school; or materially and substantially disrupting the education process or the orderly operation of a school; such as, but not limited to, the following:
a. Any unwanted physical contact between the bully and the victim like punching, pushing, shoving, kicking, slapping, tickling, headlocks, inflicting school pranks, teasing, fighting and the use of available objects as weapons;
b. Any act that causes damage to a victim’s psyche and/or emotional well-being;
c. Any slanderous statement or accusation that causes the victim undue emotional distress like directing foul language or profanity at the target, name-calling, tormenting and commenting negatively on victim’s looks, clothes and body; and
d. Cyber-bullying or any bullying done through the use of technology or any electronic means. The term shall also include any conduct resulting to harassment, intimidation or humiliation, through the use of other forms of technology, such as, but not limited to texting, email, instant messaging, chatting, internet, social media, online games, or other platforms.
Other forms of bullying
The term “bullying” shall also include:
A. Social bullying refers to any deliberate, repetitive and aggressive social behavior intended to hurt others or to belittle another individual or group; B. Gender-based bullying refers to any act that humiliates or excludes a person on the basis on perceived or actual sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI). C. Retaliation against a student who reports bullying, who provides information during an investigation of bullying or who is a witness to or has a reliable information about bullying; and D. All other forms of bullying analogous to those provided.
Common forms of bullying.
The common forms of bullying shall include, but is not necessary limited to the following: 1. Calling names with the express purpose of humiliating, embarrassing a student or otherwise cause trouble. 2. Rudeness and intimidation. These may be done through unwanted physical acts but may also be carried through non-verbal means.(A mean look or stare is an example of a non-verbal bullying) 3. Threats and Extortion. Creating fear and extorting money, food or possessions from other students. Threatening texts or messages in chat rooms and social media sites are indicated in this form. 4. Malicious gossip and exclusion from the group. Circulating gossip or damaging stories that tends to discriminate, exclude and hate another student.
B. PARTIES AND STAKEHOLDERS IN A BULLYING INCIDENT
1. Bully- refers to a student who commits any of the acts of bullying as defined
2. Bullied” or “Victim – refers to any student who experiences the acts of
bullying or retaliation as defined.
3. Bystander – refers to any person who witnesses or has personal
knowledge of any actual or perceived acts or incidents of bullying or retaliation. He/she may be a student or service provided or faculty in the college.
4. Service provider – refers to any person who is not a teacher or school
personnel but who works in the school, such as, but not limited to, security guards, canteen personnel, utility workers, and transportation service personnel.
C. SITUS OF BULLYING
The college has authority to impose discipline to its students, faculty and service providers. This authority of the college is not confined within the college premises only.
The school particularly undertakes to prevent and address bullying committed
at the following:
A. On campus. School grounds including the classrooms, hallways, canteen,
faculty rooms, auditorium, gymnasium, computer rooms, laboratories and all places and facilities within the campus. B. Off-campus which covers: a) Properties immediately adjacent to the college grounds including places or establishments frequented by the college students; b) Any other place where college-sponsored or college related activities, functions or programs are conducted; c) School service, buses or transport used by the college in an activity off-campus; and d) School services operated or accredited by the college to transport students. C. On cyberspace. Text messages, emails, chat rooms, and other social media and web sites regardless of the web site administrator’s permission to use foul or explicit language or content or absence of any particular standard of use.
