Reporting

School Counselors Obligation for Confidentiality

School Counselors have an ethical and legal obligation to keep students information confidential unless under the following circumstances:

  • Student Safety such as:

    • Someone is hurting you

    • You want to hurt someone else

    • You want to hurt yourself

  • Legal Requirements such as:

    • Imminent Danger

    • Child abuse/neglect

    • Court order

    • Consent

    • NCLB -Section 9528

  • School Policy

  • Given permission to share

    • By the student/parent

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Bullying Information

Bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids who are bullied and who bully others may have serious, lasting problems.

Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group on purpose.

Three types of Bullying.

  1. Verbal Bullying: saying or writing mean things. Examples included:

    • Teasing

    • Name calling

    • Inappropriate sexual comments

    • Taunting

    • Threating to cause harm

  2. Social Bullying: Involves hurting someone's reputation or relationships. Examples included:

    • Leaving someone out on purpose

    • Telling others not to be friends with someone

    • Spreading rumors about someone

    • Embarrassing someone in public

  3. Physical Bullying: hurting a person's body or possessions. Examples included:

    • Hitting/kicking/pinching

    • Spitting

    • Tripping/Pushing

    • Taking or breaking someone's things

    • Making mean or rude hand gestures

Bullying can occur anywhere - in person or online.

This information came from the following source.

Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs (ASPA). (2024, October 8). What is bullying. StopBullying.gov. https://www.stopbullying.gov/bullying/what-is-bullying

Easton Bullying Reporting

If you have experienced bulling or have witnessed it occurring talk to a trusted adult at school. Staff employees can not see everything, we are relaying on you to help keep our school a safe place to be.

There are two ways to report:

  1. Talk to a school employee in person

  2. Fill out a google form online

Hear MeWA

HearMeWA is a free, 24/7 service that offers support for young people in Washington state who are dealing with challenges such as stress, anxiety, bullying, violent threats, and sexual abuse. You can remain anonymous by not providing identifying information. You can request help by calling, texting, and through the app.

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Child Protective Services

As school employees we are mandated reporters. This means we are legally required to report suspected child abuse or neglect to the Department of Children, Youth & Families or law enforcement.

The phone number for our local region is 855-420-5888