Anti-Bullying

ANTI-BULLYING ACT
•Republic Act 10627, or the Anti-Bullying Act (the “Act”), aims to protect children enrolled in kindergarten, elementary, and secondary schools and learning centers (collectively, “Schools”) from being bullied.Bullying, as defined under the Act, is any severe or repeated use by one or more students.has the effect of actually causing or placing the latter in reasonable fear of physical or emotional harm or damage to his property.

•Any unwanted physical contact between the bully and the victim like punching, pushing, shoving, kicking, slapping, tickling, headlocks, inflicting school pranks, teasing, fighting I any conduct resulting to harassment, intimidation, or humiliation, through the use of other forms of technology, such as, but not limited to texting, email, instant messaging, chatting, internet, social media.

•Social bullying, or any deliberate, repetitive and aggressive social behavior intended to hurt others or to belittle another individual or group.

•Bullying may happen at the following:

School grounds;

Property immediately adjacent to School grounds;

School-sponsored or School-related activities,

Bullying may also occur at unrelated locations, functions or programs, through the use of technology or an electronic device or other forms of media, regardless if such is owned, leased, or used by the School.

•What are required of Schools under the Act?

Schools are directed to adopt policies, which are to be regularly updated, to address the existence of bullying in their respective institutions. These policies are to be reported to the appropriate school division superintendent of the Department of Education (“Department”) during the first week of every academic year. During this period, the School shall also submit a report of relevant information and statistics on bullying and retaliation culled from the previous academic year.

•Who will implement these anti-bullying policies of the School?

The School’s Child Protection Committee (“Committee”) shall serve as the body which will handle all bullying cases in the School. The Committee shall be composed of:

the School head or administrator as chairperson;

the School guidance counselor/teacher as vice chairpersons.
a representative of the Schools teachers as designated by the School faculty;

a representative of the parents as designated by the Parents-Teachers Association;

a representative of the students, except in kindergarten, as designated by the student council; and

a representative of the community as designated by the barangay captain wherein the school is located.

•Any information relating to the identity and personal circumstances of the bully, victim, or person who reported or witnessed the incident shall be treated with utmost confidentiality by the Committee and the School, provided, that the names may only be available to the School head or administrator, teacher or guidance counselor designated by the school head, and parents or guardians of students who are or have been victims of bullying or retaliation .

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