Article archive / July 1, 2012
Originally published: . Volume 3, No. 11. Source pages: 4.
Act 861 “Provides relative to the discipline of students in public elementary and secondary schools regarding bullying. Extends applicability of discipline responsibility to school buses and school- sponsored activities and functions.”
“Provides for the student code of conduct to specifically address the behavior constituting bullying, the effect the behavior has on others, including bystanders, and the disciplinary and criminal consequences, and the definition of bullying.
Provides for a program through which each school governing authority shall provide at least four hours of training for all school employees, including bus drivers, with respect to bullying each year which specifically addresses:
(1) How to recognize the behaviors defined as bullying. (2) How to identify students at each grade level in the employee's school who are most likely to become victims of bullying, while not excluding any student from protection from bullying. (3) How to use appropriate intervention and remediation techniques and procedures. (4) The procedures by which incidents of bullying are to be reported to school officials. (5) Information on suicide prevention.
Also defines bullying and addresses reporting.
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