The Watertown Unified School District is committed to making our schools a safe, learning environment. It is the policy of the Watertown Unified School District to provide a working and learning environment free from all forms of harassment including incidents of sexual harassment, intimidation, or bullying.

Bullying is a conscious, willful, and deliberately hostile activity intended to harm, induce fear through the threat of further aggression, and create terror.

~Coloroso, Barbara (2003)

The Bully, the Bullied, and the Bystander. Harper Collins.

Examples of bullying and disrespectful behavior include, but are not limited to, the following:

•    Hurting someone physically or threatening to hurt someone

•    Ganging up on someone

•    Teasing in a hurtful way or using put-downs

•    Insulting someone’s race, gender, appearance, socioeconomic status, religion or sexual orientation

•    Starting or spreading rumors

•    Purposely excluding someone in a mean way

•    Stealing or defacing someone’s personal property

•    Getting another person to assault someone

•    Threatening someone via written means including electronic communication.

•    Using digital technologies (cyber-bullying) to generate or repeat hostile or damaging content intended to harm others including but not limited to: e-mail, cell phones, text messages, instant messages, chat rooms, and social media (i.e. My Space, Twitter or Facebook). Cyber-bullying is prohibited and treated the same as all other types of bullying.

If you need to report a bullying incident for a WUSD School, please click the following link:

https://goo.gl/RTnfJP