Bullying Officer Bob Menth & Mr. Aaron Parker

Who are we? Officer Bob Menth Started career in Law enforcement as a Police Dispatcher for 5 ½ years with Hamilton County hired as Police Officer for Sharonville Police Department where I retired 9/2008. Worked for Springdale Police Department for two years helping with community relations. January of 2011 hired by Lockland to be the School resource officer.

Who are we? Mr. Aaron Parker  Married 14 years, son Joshua is in 4 th grade  Teacher 14 years (8 th year in Lockland)  Trained as a facilitator in the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (2005) Implemented bullying prevention in our district before the state's mandate. Lead the district's implementation of prevention strategies and monitoring and reporting of bullying activity.  Trained as a facilitator in Safe and Civil Schools (2006) Created and implemented CHAMPS and 3-P's positive incentive program at elementary and secondary schools.  Trained as a facilitator in Positive Behavior Supports by SWOSERRC ( ) Lead team of collaborators on how the implement incentive program for positive behavior.  Trained at Xavier University's Anti-Bullying Institute (2011) Facilitate to all school's stakeholders new challenges and strategies in bully prevention.

Do any of you have a personal experience with bullying? Were you the victim or the bully? Were you a witness that ignored it or did something to solve it?

Bullying: What is it? A student is being bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly and overtime, to negative actions on the part of one or more students. Bullying implies an imbalance in power or strength. The student who is bullied has difficulty defending himself/herself.

Lockland School District: Rules We will not bully others. We will try to help students who are bullied. We will make it a point to include students who are easily left out. When we know somebody is being bullied, we will tell an adult at school and at home.

Lockland School District: Procedures Bullying Complaint Form is used to track frequency, time, place, victims, bullies, victims, and types of bullying. Victims are counseled and instructed about the process. Bullies are alerted of behavior that breaks our school rules and behavior expectations. Staff are alerted, places of bullying are monitored more closely, and student routines are adjusted. Continued bullying behavior results in bully being provided principal/dean of student intervention.

Teachers: What is our responsibility? Display “School Rules Against Bullying” and review with students regularly. Intervene and report all incidents of bullying using “Bullying Complaint Form.” Counsel and support victim first, then address bully. Communicate with staff, administration, SRO, and parents.

School Resource Officer: How can we serve and protect? I am here to assist victims, bullies, teachers, and parents. I am here to ensure that both school rules and society's laws are followed.

Research: What do the scientists and statisticians report about bullying? In the U.S., grades 6-10  19% of students bullied others “sometimes” or more often.  17% of students were bullied “sometimes” or more often.  6.3% of students reported bullying and being bullied. At Lockland Middle School  9.3% of students were bullied by another student or group this year.  33% of students would like some help to stop the bullying.

Research: What do the scientists and statisticians report about bullying? Children who bully tend to...  Have more positive attitudes toward violence.  Have quick tempers and are easily frustrated.  Have difficulty conforming to rules.  Be stronger than peers (boys).  Appear tough, show little compassion for victims.  Be aggressive to adults.  Be good at talking themselves out of situations.

Research: What do the scientists and statisticians report about bullying? Common myths about children who bully are...  They are loners.  They have low self- esteem.

Research: What do the scientists and statisticians report about bullying? Peer risk factor for being bullied is...  a lack of close friends. Peer risk factors for bullying others are...  friends/peers with positive attitudes towards violence.  Exposure to models of bullying.

Research: What do the scientists and statisticians report about bullying? School risk factors for problems of bullying are...  Lack of supervision during breaks.  Staff have indifferent or accepting attitudes toward bullying.  Students have indifferent or accepting attitudes toward bullying. Family risk factors for bullying are...  Lack of parental warmth and involvement.  Lack of parental supervision.  Overly-permissive parenting.  Harsh discipline/physical punishment.

Bullying: What are the legal consequences of bullying vs. sexting? Bullying:  Considered “menacing.”  Can be arrestable offense.  Carries with it a misdemeanor penalty.  Maximum penalty of 3-months in jail and $500 fine. Sexting:  Considered “pandering obscenity involving a minor” and “illegal use of a minor in nudity oriented material or performance.”  Carries a felony 2/5 penalty.

21 st Century Bullying: What is cyber-bullying and sexting? Cyberbullying  Involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e- mail, cell phone text messages, instant messaging, and defamatory personal Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others. Sexting Sending, forwarding, or saving sexually explicit photos, videos, or messages from a mobile phone.

21 st Century Bullying: How common is cyberbullying and sexting? Teens send about 3,339 text messages per month. 46% of teens admitted to texting while driving. Most teens sleep with their cell phones. Teens that are sending or posting “Sexually Suggestive” messages:  39% of all teens.  37% of teen girls.  40% of teen boys.  48% of teens say they have received such messages.

21 st Century Bullying: What are the consequences of cyberbullying and sexting? Once it is sent, it can not be taken back. It can follow the child forever. Humiliation, embarrassment, and suicide. It's a crime:  Felony.  Confinement.  Designated a Sex Offender.

21 st Century Bullying: What are the effects of cyberbullying and sexting? Jesse Logan Story

21 st Century Bullying: How can we prevent cyberbullying and sexting? “Digital Citizenship”  Helps develop an identity.  Helps establish autonomy.  Helps create and maintain peer and dating relationships. A lack of “Digital Citizenship”  Inhibits empathy.  Inhibits family relationships.

“Traditional” Bullying: What can we do to prevent another generation of bullies? Direct  Physical Hitting, kicking, shoving, spitting,...  Verbal Taunting, teasing, degrading racial or sexual comments  Non-verbal Threatening or obscene gestures Indirect  Physical Getting another person to assault someone  Verbal Spreading rumors  Non-verbal Deliberate exclusion from a group or activity Cyber-bullying, sexting

Parents: How can you be involved if your child is being bullied? What does not work.  Ignoring the problem.  Blaming your child for provoking bullying.  Telling the child to “hit back.”  Calling the parents of the bully – unless there is a friendly relationship between parents What works!  Help your child develop talents and positive attributes.  Encourage the child to make contact with friendly students in their classes.  Encourage the child to get to know peers in new situations.

Parents: How can you be involved if your child is the bully? What does not work.  Ignoring the problem.  Denying that their child could do such a thing as bullying.  Protecting the child from consequences.  Blaming the victims for your child's problems.

Parents: How can you be involved if your child is being bullied? What does work! Communicate directly with your child.  We know you have been involved in bullying.  Bullying is a serious behavior.  We will not tolerate any further bullying behavior.  Enforce family rules.  Reinforce positive and kind behavior.  Spend more time with your child.  Monitor the child's activities.  Build upon the child's talents.  Help child find more appropriate behavior patterns.  Seek professional assistance, if necessary.

Questions: Do you have any questions? Contact information:  Officer Bob Menth  Mr. Aaron Parker #186 cid=174 cid=174