Bullying

Clare Middle School has adopted a belief to help students be more successful and to help students address bullying. Beginning last week, CMS students and staff began targeting bullying. This is not a purchased program, nor is it a special speaker. It is the staff and students linking arms to provide all with the necessary means and tools to address bullying.

Our goal is simple - help students and adults deal with bullying. While we all agree here that bullying is bad and needs to be stopped, we all also agree that this is a challenge that may be more than one school can address. And just like the RTP process, this process is going to help students learn from their choices, deal with situations when they occur, and help them grow into succesful adults and community members.

We started last Friday, by showing all of the students a video that was done by a group of high school students at Farwell. You can access this video on you tube. On Monday of next week, during Pioneer Period, all students and teachers will be going over a lesson plan, which asks students to define what bullying is. We will continue with lesson plans every two weeks, and hopefully have more videos to show as well.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at the school. We received some very good feed back from the students and even some parents regarding the video, and hope that the lesson plans add to an already strong start to this process.