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Policies, programs, protocols, etc., can be useful tools for people to use, but they don’t change people — only people can change people.
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Bullying prevention should not just be about stopping a negative behavior; it should be about how the members of the school community treat each other.
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Although it is tempting to mandate change by implementing a program to feel like something is being done about the problem of bullying, schools that do so are like the surgeon who said the operation was a success but whose patient died.
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Directly telling educators that their school culture/climate needs to change is probably the best way of insuring that it won’t.
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If students believe they won’t be caught (the great majority of the time they won’t), they don’t worry about consequences. If students impulsively bully students in retaliation for being bullied, they aren’t thinking beyond the moment anyway.
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Rather than simply telling people what NOT to do, bullying prevention “reframed” can invite and inspire all members of the school community to work together to create the type of school that they want and need.
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he more students are involved in the process of shaping the school culture and climate, the more they will feel a sense of ownership for their school.