A mid-year report finds that reported cases of bullying and harassment were down while the number of confirmed cases remained the same as last year.
The number of reported cases of bullying at Red Bank Regional High School dropped from 2011 to 2012 while confirmed case numbers remained the same, according to a mid-year report on Harassment, Intimidation and Bullying (HIB) at the Jan. 16 board of education meeting. Measuring the first three months of the school year, the report indicated that numbers dropped for investigated cases compared to the same time period as last year, according to Robert Donohoe, assistant principal and anti-bullying coordinator for RBR. In the first three months of the 2011-2012 school year, there were 32 HIB incidents investigated compared to 21 in 2012. There were six confirmed HIB cases over the same time period in both school years, according to Donohoe. …
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Incidents of substance abuse at the high school still higher than five years ago.
Red Bank Regional officials reported a drop in student substance abuse incidents in 2011 from the previous year, but an overall increase since 2007. The high school's annual Violence and Vandalism Report, which was presented by Assistant Principal Robert Donohoe at the Oct. 17 board of education meeting, showed that reported incidents dropped from 21 in 2010 to 17 in 2011. That number is an increase from the 11 substance abuse incidents reported in 2007. (You can access Donohoe's full report alongside this article.) The school's recent focus on intervention and helping teachers identify students with substance abuse issues might be one of the reasons numbers of reports have risen, according to School Superintendent Jim Stefankiewicz. He …
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Enuf Already
9:55 am on Friday, January 18, 2013
I applaud the efforts of RBR for taking bullying serious enough to DO something about it. This should serve as a positive lesson to all schools. Kudos! more ›