SB18

SB18

MDellinger MWalters AHorvath AMoore
 * Topic: Education**


 * Title: America: Bully Free**

The purpose of our bill is to provide more education on bullying. We will have school systems talk about bullying to both the school staff and student body for a span of four hours that can be spread into different days. During these hours or days a staff member will educate students 6th through 12th grade on both the effects and punishment on the victim and bully. The staff member will also show examples on what could really happen during a bullying case (i.e. Columbine or suicide). Also, the staff will be educated on how to detect bullying or try to help the problem.Another purpose this bill is that if children learn to act like adults they will act like adults when they are adults. This may decrease crime rates in later years.
 * Purpose:**

This bill will affect all students in all different areas. This will also affect all of the teachers and parents. This will be a positive affect on students, teachers, and parents.
 * Eligibility:**

It is estimated that 160,000 children miss school every day due to fear of attack or intimidation by a bully. During these days or hours of bully education, each grade will be talked to individually about each type of bullying; emotional, physical and cyber bullying. Also one of the hours will be about sexting. The speaker will also show real life situations and how to deal with them. If the schools wants to, they can hire a guest speakers or use videos to show some real life cases of bullying, and how far it really can go. The school will also tell the students about the punishment about bullying and show that it is against the law. Another part to the bill is the education of the school teachers or staff members who watch or attend to the students. The staff members who match these acquirements will be educated or trained to detect bullying in the school for the students. Punishment of the bully will be dealt with by assistant principal, not by the teacher who found the bullying situation.
 * Terms and Benefits:**
 * This will cause many bullying cases to die down in the schools.
 * This will also help protect the students safety and mental health by having the bullying go down in the school systems.
 * One more benefit of this bill if that these children will learn life skills about treating other people and become better adults.
 * If they become better adults the crime rates will decrease and american cities will safe again
 * children will be in healthy environment
 * children will be able to think clearly and grades will improve because
 * will improve over other counties

Speakers: $30,000,000$
 * Fiscal Impact:**

Education for Teachers: $1,000,000

Books for teachers: 5,000,000

Poster, Pamphlets etc: 100,000