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\nNorth Carolina anti-bullying laws include the following definitions of bullying or harassing behavior:
\n\"Bullying or harassing behavior\" is any pattern of gestures or written, electronic, or verbal communications, or any physical act or any threatening communication, that takes place on school property, at any school-sponsored function, or on a school bus, and that:
\n(1) Places a student or school employee in actual and reasonable fear of harm to his or her person or damage to his or her property; or
\n(2) Creates or is certain to create a hostile environment by substantially interfering with or impairing a student\u2019s educational performance, opportunities, or benefits. For purposes of this section, \u201chostile environment\u201d means that the victim subjectively views the conduct as bullying or harassing behavior and the conduct is objectively severe or pervasive enough that a reasonable person would agree that it is bullying or harassing behavior.
\nBullying or harassing behavior includes, but is not limited to, acts reasonably perceived as being motivated by any actual or perceived differentiating characteristic, such as race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, socioeconomic status, academic status, gender identity, physical appearance, sexual orientation, or mental, physical, developmental, or sensory disability, or by association with a person who has or is perceived to have one or more of these characteristics.
\nN.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 115C-407.15 (2009)
\nYes. North Carolina anti-bullying laws cover off-campus conduct by imposing criminal sanctions for cyberbullying.
\nNorth Carolina school districts must adopt a policy prohibiting bullying or harassing behavior. School district policies must contain key policy and procedural elements, including, but not limited to:
\nYes. North Carolina anti-bullying laws prohibit bullying or harassing behavior that includes, but is not limited to, acts reasonably perceived as being motivated by any actual or perceived differentiating characteristic, such as race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, socioeconomic status, academic status, gender identity, physical appearance, sexual orientation, or mental, physical, developmental, or sensory disability, or by association with a person who has or is perceived to have one or more of these characteristics.
\nSchools 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. North Carolina school districts must develop and implement methods and strategies for promoting school environments that are free of bullying or harassing behavior.
\nYes. North Carolina school districts must incorporate information regarding the local policy against bullying or harassing behavior into each school\u2019s employee training program and must provide training on the local policy to school employees and volunteers who have significant contact with students.
\nNo. North Carolina anti-bullying laws do not require districts to provide safeguards or mental health supports for students involved with bullying.
\nNo. North Carolina anti-bullying laws do not create expectations for parent involvement in addressing bullying.
\nVisit the Public Schools of North Carolina \u201cBullying Prevention\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).
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Content last updated on June 22, 2017
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