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BULLYING POLICY

Hudson Bay Composite High School is committed to promoting a caring and respectful environment that ensures healthy personal and social development for all.  We believe that all children and youth have the right to an education free from bullying in all its forms.

Bullying can include any behaviours that verbally, physically or psychologically affect another person.  They may be initiated directly or indirectly by one or more people.  These behaviours are deliberate and hurtful, and usually involve an imbalance of power.  We have identified seven types of bullying:

  1. Physical aggression, which may include destroying property, threatening, pushing, or hitting;
  2. Verbal aggression, which may include name-calling, threatening, teasing, and making intimidating phone calls;
  3. Social Alienation, for example, spreading rumours, passing notes, making racial slurs, and excluding from a group;
  4. Intimidation, which includes writing graffiti, playing a dirty trick, taking possessions, and coercion;
  5. Sexual harassment, for example, making unwelcome comments or actions of a sexual nature;
  6. Cyber harassment, which includes threatening, intimidating, or teasing over the internet;
  7. Racial or cultural harassment, for example, making racial slurs or name-calling.

At HBCHS, we believe that bullying is a serious problem for the individuals involved, the school, the families, and the community.  Bullying and victimization are not part of the healthy development of the individuals, or the stability of any community.  Bullying will not be tolerated in this school in any form.

An anti-bullying intervention requires a comprehensive strategy that includes social education, confrontation training, re-education for the victims and the bullies, and consequences for bullying behaviours.  These consequences may range from loss of privileges and imposition of school duties to detentions and suspension or exclusion from school.  Alternative approaches include counselling and school conferencing involving the students, parents, and principal or peer council.  When considering which strategy to employ with any given situation, it is important to consider the individuals involved and their bullying histories.  It is also important that any incidents be reported to the office for the purpose of establishing an individual's bullying history.