The Contoocook Valley School District is committed to providing all pupils a safe school environment.

Conduct constituting bullying or cyberbullying will not be tolerated. It is prohibited by ConVal School Board policy JICK – Pupil Safety And Violence Prevention in accordance with New Hampshire law RSA 193-F.

Policy JICK applies to all pupils and school-aged persons on school property and participating in school functions, regardless of their status under the law.

1. Bullying: a single significant incident or pattern of incidents involving a written, verbal, or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another pupil which:

1. Physically harms a pupil or damages the pupil’s property;
2. Causes emotional distress to a pupil;
3. Interferes with a pupil’s educational opportunities;
4. Creates a hostile educational environment; or
5. Substantially disrupts the orderly operation of the school.

Bullying shall also include actions motivated by an imbalance of power based on a pupil’s actual or perceived personal characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs, or motivated by the pupil’s association with another person and based on the other person’s characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs.

2. Cyberbullying: bullying (as defined above) undertaken through the use of electronic devices.

Bullying Policy JICK – Pupil Safety and Violence Prevention

Bullying Report and Investigation Timeline

• Stop Bullying Now — the US Government resource site
• PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center