Acalanes Center for Independent Study and the AUHSD District is committed to being a Bully Free Zone.

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    If at any time a student feels they are being bullied or has witnessed bullying please report any and all information to administration.

    What is Bullying?

     

    Dan Olweus, creator of the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program, provides us with this commonly-accepted definition for bullying in his book, Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do:

    "A person is bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and over time, to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and he or she has difficulty defending himself or herself."

    This definition includes three important components:

    • Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves unwanted, negative actions.

    • Bullying involves a pattern of behavior repeated over time.

    • Bullying involves an imbalance of power or strength.

     

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