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Dear Parents/Guardians,

The Fairview School District cares about the safety and well-being of its students. We want to make sure every school is a good place for students to learn. To do this we are going to be using a program called the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program.

The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (OBPP) is one of the best and most well known of its type in the country. OBPP has been proven to prevent or reduce bullying in the environments in which it is implemented.

The goals of OBPP are to reduce bullying problems and prevent new bullying problems from happening. The program also works to make relationships better among students. The program is for all students, not just those who are being bullied or who are bullying others.

Parents and guardians play a key role in this program. Your child will be asked to tell an adult at school and at home if he or she is bullied or sees bullying happening at school. It will be very important that you take any bullying seriously and tell our school staff. Our school staff members are being trained to deal with harassment situations of any type when we are told about them.

Bullying should not be seen as “kids being kids” or something that students just need to deal with. Having a safe school experience is something that all students should be able to enjoy. The district has a zero tolerance policy for this type of negative and harmful behavior.

We conducted a survey of students last year to confirm what we already knew. Data collected through the survey has helped us structure our program this year. It has been a success, although we still have some people who erroneously argue that there is no bullying program here, or who are resistant to taking it seriously.

If you have any questions about the program, please call Dr. Horn at FES (ext. 5230), Dr. Urban at FMS (ext. 4125) or me at FHS (ext. 3103).

Sincerely,

Dale J. Lewis
Assistant Principal, FHS
HALT Program Coordinator

Updated 10/27/11