BULLYING POLICY

The Watertown Board of Education provides instruction to students and staff to prevent bullying in the schools or on public school property and has developed a policy and written procedures for reacting to reports of bullying in the schools or on school grounds.

Bullying is defined as any overt act by a student or group of students directed against another student with the intent to ridicule humiliate, or intimidate the student, with or without physical contact while on school grounds or at a school-sponsored activity which acts are repeated against the same student over time.

Approved by BOE October 28, 2002
Effective Date: October 29, 2002 for the Third Quarter