Guiding Questions
Should schools and lawmakers do more to protect kids from cyberbullies?
Should cyber bullying be approached differently than traditional forms of bullying? Please explain your answer.
Should teachers and school administrators be given greater jurisdiction in monitoring and punishing cyber bullying on school campuses? Off school campuses?
What should be done to prevent cyber bullying?
"Cyber Bullying: Discussion Questions." Issues: Understanding Controversy and Society.
ProQuest Staff. "At Issue: Human Trafficking." ProQuest LLC. 2011: n.pag. SIRS Issues Researcher. Web. 22 Nov 2011.
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Washington Legislative History
Education Code Statutes
2010 Washington Substitute House Bill No. 2801 – Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying Washington Revised Code §28A.300.285 – Harassment, intimidation, and bullying prevention policies and procedures. Washington Revised Code §43.06B.060 – Public school antiharassment policies and strategies – lead agency.
2007 Washington Substitute Senate Bill No. 5288 – Cyberbullying Washington Revised Code §28A.300.285 – Harassment, intimidation, and bullying prevention policies and procedures.
2002 Washington House Bill No. 1444 – Bullying Washington Revised Code §28A.300.285 – Harassment, intimidation, and bullying prevention policies and procedures. Washington Revised Code §28A.600.480 – Reporting of harassment, intimidation, or bullying.
Behaviors/Expressions — Harassment, intimidation, or bullying can take many forms including, but not limited to slurs, rumors, jokes, innuendos, demeaning comments, drawings, cartoons, pranks, gestures, physical attacks, threats or other written, oral, physical, or electronically transmitted messages or images.
Prohibition of Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying Policy No. 3027 (2010)
Harassment, intimidation, or bullying — is an intentional electronic, written, verbal, or physical act that:
(A) Physically harms a student or damages the student’s property.
(B) Has the effect of substantially interfering with a student’s education.
(C) Is so severe, persistent, or pervasive that it creates an intimidating or threatening educational environment.
(D) Has the effect of substantially disrupting the orderly operation of the school.
Conduct that is "substantially interfering with a student’s education" will be determined by considering a targeted student’s grades, attendance, demeanor, interaction with peers, participation in activities, and other indicators. Conduct that may rise to the level of harassment, intimidation, and bullying may take many forms, including, but not limited to, slurs, rumors, jokes, innuendoes, demeaning comments, drawings, cartoons, pranks, ostracism, physical attacks or threats, gestures, or acts relating to an individual or group whether electronic, written, oral, or physically transmitted messages or images. There is no requirement that the targeted student actually possess the characteristic that is the basis for the harassment, intimidation, or bullying.
Prohibition of Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying Policy No. 3027P (2010)
Terms for harassment, intimidation, or bullying defined in Washington State Legislation
"Harassment, intimidation, or bullying" means any intentional electronic, written, verbal, or physical act, including but not limited to one shown to be motivated by any characteristic in RCW 9A.36.080(3), or other distinguishing characteristics, when the intentional electronic, written, verbal, or physical act:
(a) Physically harms a student or damages the student's property; or
(b) Has the effect of substantially interfering with a student's education; or
(c) Is so severe, persistent, or pervasive that it creates an intimidating or threatening educational environment; or
(d) Has the effect of substantially disrupting the orderly operation of the school. Nothing in this section requires the affected student to actually possess a characteristic that is a basis for the harassment, intimidation, or bullying.
Wash. Rev. Code
§28A.300.285
(1) A person is guilty of malicious harassment if he or she maliciously and intentionally commits one of the following acts because of his or her perception of the victim's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, or mental, physical, or sensory handicap:
(a) Causes physical injury to the victim or another person;
(b) Causes physical damage to or destruction of the property of the victim or another person; or
(c) Threatens a specific person or group of persons and places that person, or members of the specific group of persons, in reasonable fear of harm to person or property. The fear must be a fear that a reasonable person would have under all the circumstances. For purposes of this section, a "reasonable person" is a reasonable person who is a member of the victim's race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation, or who has the same mental, physical, or sensory handicap as the victim. Words alone do not constitute malicious harassment unless the context or circumstances surrounding the words indicate the words are a threat. Threatening words do not constitute malicious harassment if it is apparent to the victim that the person does not have the ability to carry out the threat.
Wash. Rev. Code §
9A.36.080(3)