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\nNew Hampshire anti-bullying laws include the following definitions of bullying and cyberbullying:
\n\u201cBullying\u201d means a single significant incident or a pattern of incidents involving a written, verbal, or electronic communication, or a physical act or gesture, or any combination thereof, directed at another pupil which:
\n(1) Physically harms a pupil or damages the pupil\u2019s property;
\n(2) Causes emotional distress to a pupil;
\n(3) Interferes with a pupil\u2019s educational opportunities;
\n(4) Creates a hostile educational environment; or
\n(5) Substantially disrupts the orderly operation of the school.
\n\u201cBullying\u201d shall include actions motivated by an imbalance of power based on a pupil\u2019s actual or perceived personal characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs, or motivated by the pupil\u2019s association with another person and based on the other person\u2019s characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs.
\n\u201cCyberbullying\u201d means conduct defined in paragraph I of this section undertaken through the use of electronic devices.
\nRSA 193-F:3 (2010)
\nYes. New Hampshire anti-bullying laws cover off-campus conduct if the conduct interferes with a pupil\u2019s educational opportunities or substantially disrupts the orderly operations of the school or school sponsored activity or event.
\nNew Hampshire school districts are required to adopt a written policy prohibiting bullying and cyberbullying. School district policies must contain key policy and procedural elements, including, but not limited to:
\nYes. New Hampshire anti-bullying laws define bullying as actions motivated by an imbalance of power based on a pupil\u2019s actual or perceived personal characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs, or motivated by the pupil\u2019s associated with another person and based on the other person\u2019s characteristics, behaviors, or beliefs. The laws states that bullying has historically included actions that are motivated by actual or perceived race, color, national origin, ancestry or ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, age, physical, mental, emotional, or learning disability, gender, gender identify and expression, obesity, or other distinguishing personal characteristics.
\nNew Hampshire schools that receive federal funding are required by federal law to address discrimination on a number of different personal characteristics. Find out when bullying may be a civil rights violation.
\nYes. New Hampshire school districts are required to provide educational programs for pupils and parents in preventing, identifying, responding to, and reporting incidents of bullying or cyberbullying.
\nYes. New Hampshire school districts must provide annual training for school employees, regular school volunteers, or employees under contract with a school or district who have significant contact with pupils for the purpose of preventing, identifying, responding to, and reporting incidents of bullying or cyberbullying.
\nYes. New Hampshire school district policies must include a requirement that the principal or designee develop a response to remediate any substantiated incident of bullying or cyberbullying, including to offer assistance to the victim or perpetrator.
\nYes. New Hampshire school districts are encouraged to develop policies in consultation with pupils, parents, administrators, school staff, school volunteers, community representatives, and local law enforcement agencies. School district policies must also include a procedure for notification to the parent or parents or guardian of a victim of bullying or cyberbullying and the parent or parents or guardian of the perpetrator of the bullying or cyberbullying. School districts must also provide education programs for parents in preventing, identifying, responding to, and reporting incidents of bullying or cyberbullying.
\nVisit the New Hampshire Department of Education \u201cBullying and Cyberbullying Resources\u201d webpage.
\nThe key component framework used in the analysis of state laws is based on the review of legislation presented in the \u201cAnalysis of State Bullying Laws and Policies \u2013 December 2011\u201d (U.S. Department of Education).
\nContent last updated on June 22, 2017
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