The Core Knowledge Blog

Florida’s Broward County has become the first school district in the state to put an “anti-bullying policy” in place, per newly required state law.  The Miami Herald reports Broward schools are rolling out a new computerized system for reporting and tracking bullying.  “The Florida Department of Education will use Broward’s policy as a model for the state’s 66 other school districts,” the paper notes.  The Broward school district now defines bullying as “systematically and chronically inflicting physical hurt or psychological distress….The policy includes more than traditional schoolyard name-calling, teasing and shoving. Now, even behavior over the Internet — or social networking — can count if it affects students in school.