Respect for All

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Respect for All: Preventing and Addressing Student-to-Student Discrimination, Sexual and Other Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying

The New York Public Schools Anti-Bullying campaign, Kindness over Bullies, is dedicated to building a school culture where respect, inclusion and safety are non-negotiable. By empowering students as upstanders, we inspire them to take an active role in promoting respect for differences, confronting bullying head-on, and fostering a truly supportive, bully-free environment.

Bullying Definition

Bullying is aggressive behavior that is unwanted and negative, is intended to cause some kind of harm, involves a real or perceived imbalance of power (physical or social) or strength and/or can be a single incident or a series of related incidents and can take many forms. It includes, but is not limited to, behavior that targets students because of their actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship/immigration status, religion, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or weight. Bullying includes but is not limited to:

Physical violence;
Stalking;
Verbal or physical conduct that threatens another with harm;
Threats, hazing, taunting, aggressive, or menacing gestures;
Exclusion from peer groups designed to humiliate or isolate;
Using derogatory language or making derogatory jokes or name calling to humiliate or harass;
Posting or electronically circulating written or graphic material that is derogatory toward others (cyberbullying);
Deliberately using a name, mispronouncing a name or using a pronoun in a manner that discriminates, harasses, bullies, or intimidates.