After parental allegations of harassment among understudies and inaction, the La Crescent-Hokah School District held a meeting with guardians to discuss mitigation plans Wednesday night.
Beforehand, guardians shared that they need school authorities to concoct a successful and long-haul solution to end this terrible conduct.
Interim Superintendent Gary Kuphall said they intend to address bullying during the lunch break and in the middle of classes. A few understudies moved schools and referred to harassing as the primary explanation.
In November, the school area wanted to add more understudy and staff lobby screens to guard understudies. Guardians and the workforce concurred that the bullying issue comes from online media.
The top-level issue for guardians is seeing how consistent telephone access and doom scrolling can change their youngsters’ conduct for the most noticeably terrible.
“We feel as we have minimal assets since this wasn’t something we dealt with when we were young,” parent Andrea Winters said. “So that’s a theme we want to be able to get a better handle on, set some ground rules, help children understand the limits, dangers, why this isn’t healthy for mental health, relationships, and communication.”
It’s a challenging subject for instructors and guardians to improve because children can’t avoid harassing when they leave school, and they could, in any case, see mean comments on Facebook, Twitter, or TikTok.
“Furthermore, as we as a whole know the online media, there’s a lot of facts in there, but at the same time, there are certain things that are not even true,” Interim Superintendent Gary Kuphall said. “It’s so much simpler to get both the genuine data yet, in addition, the bogus data, and that makes it a whole lot more troublesome.”
Guardians said they need to see the school carry out a “no telephones in class” order and authorize it.
Everybody at the meeting concurred that the COVID-19 pandemic aggravated it. When children were stuck at home, online media was one of only a handful of exceptional exercises they could partake in, and presently they need to re-learn respect in person
The La Crescent-Hokah School District intends to hold a comparable meeting sooner rather than later to share arrangements from what they founded on Wednesday.
