Report Bullying
Because there are often concerns about retribution associated with bullying threats, the district has made the Safer Ohio School Tip Line available to students and parents to confidentially submit bullying tips to district administration via the web, phone, or email.
Call 844-723-3764
Email a message to tip@saferohioschooltipline.com
Send a message through the Website
Tips may be provided anonymously if necessary.
Your information will be reviewed, and reasonable action will be taken to address the situation, to the extent such action does not disclose the source of the report if known and is consistent with the due-process rights of the person alleged to have committed the acts.
For emergencies, call 911. Do not utilize the Safe Ohio School Tip Line to submit a tip if someone needs immediate assistance.
How to Identify Bullying
“Bullying” is defined as a person willfully and repeatedly exercising power or control over another with hostile or malicious intent (i.e., repeated oppression, physical or psychological, of a less powerful individual by a more powerful individual or group). Bullying can be physical, verbal, psychological, or a combination of all three. Some examples of bullying are:
Physical – hitting, kicking, spitting, pushing, pulling, taking and/or damaging personal belongings, extorting money, blocking or impeding student movement, making unwelcome physical contact, being violent in a dating relationship
Verbal – taunting, malicious teasing, insulting, name-calling, making threats
Psychological – spreading rumors, manipulating social relationships, coercing, or engaging in social exclusion/shunning, extortion, or intimidation
In order to be considered bullying, the behavior must be aggressive and include:
An Imbalance of Power: Kids who bully use their power—such as physical strength, access to embarrassing information, or popularity—to control or harm others. Power imbalances can change over time and in different situations, even if they involve the same people.
Repetition: Bullying behaviors happen more than once.
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Rough Play | Fighting | Teasing | Harassment | Bullying |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Usually, friends; peers have a relationship | Usually not friends | Between peers of similar size, physical ability, and power | Words, conduct, or actions directed at a specific person | Imbalance of power between the people involved |
Intention is to have fun, not provoke or intimidate | Intention is negative, aggressive, desire to inflict injury or discomfort | Intention is to provoke, not intimidate | Intention is to annoy, alarm, or cause substantial distress | Intention is negative, aggressive, desire to inflict injury or discomfort, to humiliate/ insult, cause harm, distress, and or intimidate |
Can be repeated due to the relationship | Usually not repeated | Stops when one of the peers expresses displeasure | With no justification and can be repeated | Involves a pattern of behavior that is repeated or very severe |
Facial expressions reflect enjoyment: smiling, neutral face, laughter | Can vary, but often is relatively equal between peers of similar size, physical ability, and power | Based on actual or perceived aggression | Involves aggressive behavior (could be verbal, doesn’t have to be physical) | |
Involves physical aggression | Facial expressions reflect anger: staring, face with furrowed eyebrows, tense, hostile | |||
Involves physical aggression |
School Policies on Bullying
Tipp City Schools takes bullying very seriously and regularly reviews its policies and guidelines to address it.
BULLYING AND OTHER FORMS OF AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR
Board Policy 5517.01
Administrative Guideline 5517.01
Student Handbooks
State Law and School Board Policy require semiannual public reports of Bullying Incidents. Those reports may be found here:
Superintendent's Bullying Reports