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Nondiscrimination/Harassment
 
At Green Valley School we practice and maintain a no bullying campus.  Visual reminders encourage students to be respectful of their peers, teachers and adults.   We discourage disrespect and commit to no bullying.
 
The following visual poster is in every classroom and the Administration Office:
 
NO BULLYING AT GREEN VALLEY SCHOOL
 Respect (Happy face) - Disrespect (Sad Face) - No Bullying
 
If you experience bullying, remember ABCD !
Awareness
--Is this grumpy behavior, disrespect or bullying?
Back off and breathe
--Take a breath and a brain break
Choices
--Use your words
--Ignore and walk away
--Show a sense of humor
--Tell an adult
Do It!
--Follow through with your choice!
--Show good character!
--Don’t let a bully have the power to bring you down!
 
 
California Education Code 48900(r) defines Bullying as:
 
(r) Engaged in an act of bullying.  For purposes of this subdivision, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1) “Bullying” means any severe or pervasive physical or verbal act or conduct, including communications made in writing or by means of an electronic act, and including one or more acts committed by a pupil or group of pupils as defined in Section 48900.2, 48900.3, or 48900.4, directed toward one or more pupils that has or can be reasonably predicted to have the effect of one or more of the following:
(A) Placing a reasonable pupil or pupils in fear of harm to that pupil's or those pupils' person or property.
(B) Causing a reasonable pupil to experience a substantially detrimental effect on his or her physical or mental health.
(C) Causing a reasonable pupil to experience substantial interference with his or her academic performance.
(D) Causing a reasonable pupil to experience substantial interference with his or her ability to participate in or benefit from the services, activities, or privileges provided by a school.
(2)
(A) “Electronic act” means the transmission, by means of an electronic device, including, but not limited to, a telephone, wireless telephone, or other wireless communication device, computer, or pager, of a communication, including, but not limited to, any of the following:
(i) A message, text, sound, or image.
(ii) A post on a social network Internet Web site including, but not limited to:
(I) Posting to or creating a burn page.  “Burn page” means an Internet Web site created for the purpose of having one or more of the effects listed in paragraph (1).
(II) Creating a credible impersonation of another actual pupil for the purpose of having one or more of the effects listed in paragraph (1).  “Credible impersonation” means to knowingly and without consent impersonate a pupil for the purpose of bullying the pupil and such that another pupil would reasonably believe, or has reasonably believed, that the pupil was or is the pupil who was impersonated.
(III) Creating a false profile for the purpose of having one or more of the effects listed in paragraph
(1).  “False profile” means a profile of a fictitious pupil or a profile using the likeness or attributes of an actual pupil other than the pupil who created the false profile.
(B) Notwithstanding paragraph (1) and subparagraph (A), an electronic act shall not constitute pervasive conduct solely on the basis that it has been transmitted on the Internet or is currently posted on the Internet.
(3) “Reasonable pupil” means a pupil, including, but not limited to, an exceptional needs pupil, who exercises average care, skill, and judgment in conduct for a person of his or her age, or for a person of his or her age with his or her exceptional needs.