Safe Schools Training Aims to Make Bully Reporting More Uniform
The Pasco School district reported only 11 incidents of bullying to the state in 2011.
Pasco County administrators attended a Florida Department of Education training session Monday that will help the district better track bullying incidents in the future. The district, which has 89 schools and about 67,000 students, came under scrutiny recently after it reported only 28 bullying incidents in all of 2011. Districts vary in how and what they report, Pasco Schools spokeswoman Summer Romagnoli said. Distinguishing between a bullying precursor behavior and bullying can cause some discrepancies, she said. In Pasco, if an incident is considered “taunting or teasing,” an intervention is made at the school level. If the intervention doesn’t work, “then it goes to the state as bullying,” Romagnoli said. Monday’s inservice, which was…
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