School Bullying Prevention Act and Policy
The Oklahoma Legislature established the School Bullying Prevention Act (70 OKLA. STAT. § 24-100.2) with the express purpose of prohibiting peer student harassment, intimidation, bullying, and hazing. These terms include, but are not limited to any gesture, written or verbal expression, or physical act that a reasonable person should recognize will harm another student, damage another student’s property, place another student in reasonable fear of harm of the student’s person or damage to the student’s property, or insult or demean any student or group of students in such a way as to disrupt or interfere with the school district’s educational mission.
Bullying is an individual or group aggressive physical, emotional, verbal, or sexual behavior whose intentions are to do harm to others. Bullying can include and is not limited to, name calling, verbal slurs, pushing, hitting, pinching, gesturing, threatening, disrespecting, and taking items without permission. NWTC will not tolerate bullying behavior. This conduct shall be subject to the same disciplinary consequences as other misconduct.
Victims of alleged bullying incidents are encouraged to report the situation to a teacher or personnel in the Central Office or Counselor’s Office. Confidentiality will be maintained, within legal limits, and no reprisals or retaliation will be allowed to occur as a result of good faith reporting of bullying.
Bullying Investigators – Each campus will have designated individuals to investigate bullying reports. These individuals will be identified in the site’s student and staff handbooks, on the technology center’s website, and in the bullying prevention education provided annually to students and staff. The technology center’s anti-bullying program is coordinated at the district level by its bullying coordinator, the superintendent of schools.
Designated Bullying Investigators:
Alva Campus: Dr. Jeremy Eaton, jeaton@nwtech.edu and Karen Koehn, kkoehn@nwtech.edu
Fairview Campus: Colt Shaw, cshaw@nwtech.edu and Jennifer Shaw, jshaw@nwtech.edu
Click Here to view Student Bullying Policy.