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Understanding and Reporting �Bullying Behavior

What Every Patriots’ Parent

Needs to Know

September 2022

Patriots STEM Elementary

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What is Bullying?

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Bullying is unfair and one-sided. It happens when someone keeps hurting, frightening, threatening, or leaving someone out on purpose.

4 Key Characteristics of Bullying

          • Repetition
          • Intentional
          • Unprovoked
          • Imbalance of Power

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Forms of Bullying

Direct/Physical

Indirect Emotional

Cyberbullying

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Help Your Child Identify Bullying

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  • If your child tells you about a situation and you aren’t sure if it’s bullying, use this checklist: 

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  • Does your child feel hurt, either emotionally or physically, by the other child’s behavior? 

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  • Has your child been the target of the negative behavior more than once?

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  • Is the negative behavior one-sided? 

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  • Is your child unable to make the behavior stop on their own? 

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  • If the response to one or more of these questions is “yes,” the more likely it is that the behavior would be considered bullying.

Bullying is Serious!

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Report Process

Student or parent or staff member reports bullying incident (online-verbal-written)

Staff reviews and contacts parents if needed

Interventions implemented as needed

Process repeated as needed

(involve school admins)

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How is Bullying Reported at Patriots?

  • Staff, parents, or students can complete a Bullying Report (available online, front office, nurse’s office and counselors’ office)
  • Bullying Reports are turned into a school administrator.
  • Administrators determine interventions with counselors and/or discipline consequences if it is bullying.

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Reporting Bullying Online

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When is it NOT Bullying?

  • Bullying is a persistent pattern of unwelcome or aggressive behavior that often involves an imbalance of power, and/or the intention to harm or humiliate someone.
  • Conflict is generally a disagreement or difference in opinion between peers who typically have equal power in their relationships.

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Bullying and Conflict Prevention �at Patriots 2022

  • Bullying Prevention/Intervention Staff Training
  • Positivity Project (P2) Word of the Week
  • October is Anti-Bullying Month
    • Bully Prevention Week … October 17th - 21st
  • Kindness Challenge … January 24th - 27th
  • Counseling Lessons for:
    • Empathy and Assertiveness (Second Step)
    • Conflict Resolution Strategies (Kelso’s Choice)

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KELSO’S CHOICES

  • BIG PROBLEMS: Problems or situations that are dangerous or scary need adult help to solve. Big problems can result in someone being hurt.
  • SMALL PROBLEMS: These are problems that you are strong enough and smart enough to handle on your own. These conflicts you can solve without an adult’s help.

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Try�TWO �of Kelso’s�Choices�Before �Telling�an�Adult

Small Problems

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How to Calm Down

  • STOP – Use your “stop signal”
  • NAME YOUR FEELING
    • “I feel angry.”
  • CALM DOWN
    • Take “Belly Breaths”
    • Count (quietly to self)
    • Use Self-Talk

(Say positive things to yourself)

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Thank you for listening!�Please contact your school counselors with questions or concerns!

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Erin Scannell

1, 3, 5

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Melissa Cahall

K, 2, 4

Melissa.Cahall@cabarrus.k12.nc.us

Erin.Scannell@cabarrus.k12.nc.us