Current Campaign

NAPERVILLE SCHOOL DISTRICT 203 -
2011 POLICY REVISION SUGGESTION TEMPLATE FROM EVERYDAY PEOPLE. 

1. Develop a clear, enforceable and actionable cyber policy:
to clarify: Cyber bullying, Electronic video, Electronic audio, Etc. It's all Cyber!

2. Implement a Comprehensive Awareness program for the entire district:
School wide assemblies at the high schools.  This program should be put on by the police cybercrimes division with the help of the school liaison officers.  THEY ACTUALLY DID THIS ONE (Sort of) – WIN FOR US!

3. Cyber-crime/Bullying awareness training for ages K-8:  The earlier we can teach them that this is not acceptable behavior, the better! 

4. Awareness training for the teachers including all school personnel: This must include direction from our elite cyber-crimes division. The school liaison officers need to attend a workshop on this with periodic follow up sessions and if they do not attend they should not be allowed in the schools. This should apply to Deans as well.

5. Clarification of the athletic “Zero Tolerance Policy”: If a child is bullied 5 minutes after school on the bus, it’s the principal’s issue. If it happens 5 minutes after school at a team practice, it becomes an Athletic Director issue and the Principal washes his hands along with any discipline. The bully ends up missing a game or two but still practices with the team and becomes an underground hero. Meanwhile the bullied child becomes the bad guy to the players, coaches and parents. No Suspension, detention, book report, study hall , nothing… IT JUST BECOMES A BIG JOKE LEAVING A VULNERABLE STUDENT IN A VERY DANGEROUS POSITION! 

6. Parent Letter: A letter should be IMMEDIATELY sent out to all district 203 parents alerting them to the dangers of cyber bullying.  It should encourage parents to monitor their child’s social media accounts and advise them to have access to all their passwords. Many parents are reluctant to invade their kid’s space, but if a letter goes out from the school recommending it, parents can use that as a reason. They can tell their kids, “The school tells me that in the interest of keeping you safe, I should be checking this stuff regularly.”  The letter should also recommend installing monitoring software. 

7. Outreach Program: The school should setup up an outreach program in which they encourage victims of cyber bullying to come forward and provide them someone to talk to. We need to open a dialog and try to bring this “Out of the Closet”. Let kids know it’s not their fault that this happened and let them know that it’s ok to speak up like my son did.