Harassment, Intimidation, or Bullying. (HIB). Harassment, intimidation, or bullying (HIB) in school settings presents an ongoing challenge throughout New Jersey. Acts motivated either by any actual or perceived characteristic, such as race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or a mental, physical or sensory disability, or by any other distinguishing characteristic, tear at the fabric of our society, pose grave risks to the physical and emotional well-being of children, and can quickly lead to retaliation, an escalation of violence both on and off school grounds, and even suicide. HIB may take a myriad of forms, encompassing even common activities such as the photographing or recording of one student by another. To address this problem, New Jersey enacted the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act (ABR) on January 5, 2011 (N.J.S.A. 18A:37-13 et seq.). The ABR sets forth standards and procedures for preventing, reporting, investigating, and responding to incidents of HIB of students that occur on school grounds, at school-sponsored functions, on school buses, and off school grounds. The ABR further requires that polices be adopted through a process that includes representation of parents or guardians, school employees, volunteers, students, administrators and community representatives (N.J.S.A. 18A:37-15a). Upon request by a school district, law enforcement agencies shall make available a representative to participate in this process (see Article 13.6 of this Agreement).
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Samples: Uniform State Memorandum of Agreement, Uniform State Memorandum of Agreement, Uniform State Memorandum of Agreement
