SCCS's Policy Aligns With National Bullying Prevention Month

SANTA CRUZ, 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.

Santa Cruz City School's is among many districts 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, SCCS does have a comprehensive policy in place that deals with bullying.

"The governing board recognizes the harmful effects of bullying on student well-being, student learning, and school attendance and desires to provide a safe school environment that protects students from physical and emotional harm," the SCCS policy states.

The policy continues, "No individual or group shall, through physical, written, verbal, visual, or other means, harass, sexually harass, threaten, intimidate, cyberbully, cause bodily injury to, or commit hate violence against any student or school personnel, or retaliate against them for filing a complaint or participating in the complaint resolution process."

Read the SCCS full policy on bullying.