Online Form to Report Bullying:

Click here for Anne M. Jeans Elementary School

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Voicemail to Report Bullying:
Anne M. Jeans Elementary School:  (630) 734-6691
Burr Ridge Middle School:  (630) 734-6692
 
If you require an immediate response, please contact the police.

DuPage County Sheriff's Department:
(630) 407-2400

Burr Ridge Police Department:
(630) 323-8181

Bullying/Harassment (Verbal, Sexual, Physical)

As Per Policy 7:180, bullying, intimidation, and harassment are not acceptable in any form and will not be tolerated at school or any school-related activity.  The School District will protect students against retaliation for reporting incidents of bullying, intimidation, or harassment, and will take disciplinary action against any student, District Employee, or agent who participates in such conduct. Students who engage in bullying/harassment on school premises, while attending school sponsored activities, at bus stops or while riding on a bus to or from school, will be subject to appropriate disciplinary action, which will range from a parent phone call to possible expulsion and include an official letter mailed home from the school principal.

Bullying/harassment is defined as any activity from one person to another, which is unwanted or unwelcome, including, but not limited to, physical contact, verbal comments or pressure to engage in particular activities.  The victim of bullying/harassment is directed to immediately seek the assistance of a trusted adult such as a parent/guardian, teacher, SSC staff, social worker, or administrator.

Bullying on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, national origin, military status, unfavorable discharge status from the military service, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, gender-related identity or expression, ancestry, age, religion, physical or mental disability, socioeconomic status, academic status, order of protection status, status of being homeless or actual  or potential marital or parental status, including pregnancy, associations with a person or group with one or more of the aforementioned actual or perceived characteristics, or any other distinguishing characteristic is prohibited in each of the following situations:

1.During any school-sponsored education program or activity. 
2.  While in school, on school property, on school buses, or other school vehicles, at school bus stops waiting for the bus, or at school-sponsored or school-sanctioned events or activities. 
3.  Through the transmission of information from a school computer, a school computer network, or other similar electronic school equipment. 
4.  Through the transmission of a computer that is accessed at non-school related location, activity, or program or from the use of technology or an electronic device that is not owned, leased, or used by the District if the bullying causes a substantial disruption to the educational process or orderly operation of a school.  (and applies only if the school administrator or teacher receives a report of bullying;  staff is not required to monitor these events.)

The school’s normal disciplinary procedures will be followed in determining the appropriate consequence for the bullying/harassment.  Due process will be afforded to the offending student in accordance with the District’s discipline review procedures and Illinois statutes.  Students will receive a warning, parents will be contacted within 24 hours of notification, a contract will be initiated, and out of school suspensions will be earned for continued bullying behavior.  Peer mediation at the middle school is also an option for students reporting bullying.

These are systematic and persistent behaviors that do not recognize the rights of others.  Bullying occurs when someone keeps hurting, frightening, threatening or leaving someone out on purpose.  Bullying is not a one-time incident.  Bullying interactions are carried out continually over time.  Actions that are considered bullying behaviors include:

Definition of Bullying Behaviors:

Direct (Face-To-Face) Bullying:

Verbal Bullying- name-calling, mocking, hurtful teasing, insults, put-downs, humiliating, racist or sexist comments, harassment

Physical Bullying- shoves, pushes, hitting, beating up, stealing, damaging property, assault

Psychological Bullying- giving dirty looks, uttering threats, forms of intimidation, extortion

Indirect (Behind Someone's Back) Bullying:

This is also referred to as relational aggression or social bullying.

Gossiping- lowering people's opinions about the student who is targeted as a victim

Social Aggression- telling people not to be friends with a student who is targeted as a victim, spreading rumors, and damaging friendships

Leaving Out- shunning, exclusion

Cyber Bullying- The use of electronic technology as a means of bullying and harassing may involve sending threatening or harassing emails or instant messages, creating a website that belittles or ridicules another student, taking unflattering or inappropriate pictures of another student without their permission and sharing them with others or posting them on an internet site, stealing someone's password and sending mean messages to others