LVJUSD's Policy Aligns With National Bullying Prevention Month

LIVERMORE, CA — October is National Bullying Prevention Month, meant to bring attention to the bullying problem and involve people nationwide in a conversation on how to create a world safe from bullying.

The Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District is among many across the nation working to address this issue. But for bullying prevention to work, everyone needs to be involved — parents, guardians, coaches and community members too.

For its part, the LVJUSD does have a comprehensive policy in place that deals with bullying.

"The board of education recognizes the harmful effects of bullying on student learning and school attendance and desires to provide safe school environments that protect students from physical and emotional harm," the district policy states. "District employees shall establish student safety as a high priority and shall not tolerate bullying of any student."

The policy continues, "No student or group of students shall, through physical, written, verbal, or other means, harass, sexually harass, threaten, intimidate, cyberbully, cause bodily injury to, or commit hate violence against any other student or school personnel."

Read the LVJUSD's full policy on bullying.