>Will all the kids that don’t behave become a target of the new anti bulling policy?
Ridgewood school district adjusting to new anti-bullying policy
MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2011
BY JOSEPH CRAMER
STAFF WRITER
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
New Jersey’s Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act will officially take effect at the start of the coming school year, bringing with it changes to definitions and procedures concerning incidents of harassment.
The act, passed in January in part as a response to the nationally publicized suicide of Ridgewood High School graduate Tyler Clementi, is considered to contain some of the strictest anti-bullying laws in the country. The revisions to the existing Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying policy were formally adopted on second reading at the July 18 Board of Education (BOE) public meeting.
On Aug. 16, a letter was sent from Superintendent Daniel Fishbein to district parents regarding the new act and explaining the changes they can expect.
“This important new law sets strict formal parameters for a core value to which the Ridgewood Public Schools has long been committed: that respectful behavior fosters a rich and challenging learning environment,” Fishbein said in the letter.
