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Bullying, Harassment and Intimidation

Bullying, harassment, or intimidation means intentional conduct, including verbal, physical, or written conduct or an intentional electronic communication that creates a hostile educational environment by substantially interfering with a student’s educational benefits, opportunities, or performance, or with a student’s physical or psychological well-being and is:

  • motivated by an actual or a perceived personal characteristic including race, national origin, marital status, sex,
    sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, ancestry, physical attributes, socioeconomic status, familial status,
    or physical or mental ability or disability; or,
  • threatening or seriously intimidating; and,
  • occurs on school property, at a school activity or event, or on a school bus; or,
  • substantially disrupts the orderly operation of a school. “Electronic communication” means a communication
    transmitted by means of an electronic device, including a telephone, cellular phone, computer, or pager.

Bullying is further defined in school policy as:

  • Power Imbalance – one child has power over the other(s)
  • Intention to Harm – intended to harm or hurt others on purpose
  • Repeated over time – gets worse with repetition, there is real or implied threat that the behaviour will not stop
    and in fact will become even more serious.

Reporting Forms

Bullying, harassment, and intimidation are serious and will not be tolerated. The following forms can be used to report alleged bullying harassment, or intimidation that occurred during the current school year on school property, at a school-sponsored activity or event off school property, on a school bus, on the way to and/or from school, or on the internet – sent on or off school property; or that substantially disrupted the orderly operation of the school.

ERASE Anonymous Reporting Tool

Have you seen or heard something that concerns you?

Is someone or something bothering you or your friends at school?

The erase|Report It tool lets you send a secure, anonymous and confidential message to your school’s or school district’s safe school coordinator, who will follow up on it right away. You do not have to provide your name unless you want to.

Messages are only monitored during your school’s operational hours. If this is an emergency, please call 911 immediately.

If you see or hear something, say something!

Visit the erase website to find resources for students, parents, and educators related to student safety, sexual orientation and gender identity, mental health and substance use.