Preventing Hate Harassment Behavior

1. Preventing Hate Harassment Behavior Mission Statement: Students are at the heart of Oak Valley and meeting their needs is our first priority.

2. From Superintendent Dr. Collins Please Read: Poway Unified School District Board Policy, supported by the California statute, defines hate motivated behavior as an act, or attempted act, motivated by hostility toward a victim’s actual or perceived race, ethnicity, national origin, immigrant status, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, age, disability, or any other physical or cultural characteristic.

3. How much are you familiar with already? Instructions: Before we begin today’s dialogue, it’s important to know what you already understand about Hate Harassment and Hate Behavior. Please take the next few minutes to complete a short survey. . . Circle all the answers that you think may apply to each question.Use about 10 minutes to do so. Your teacher will pass them out to you shortly.

4. What is Hate Behavior? The District and State of California define hate motivated behavior as actions or statements that are hostile or threatening towards another person based on their: Race, ethnicity, national origin, or immigrant status Gender or sexual orientation Religious beliefs or cultural characteristics Age, disability or any other physical conditions

5. What Are the 3 Different Levels of Hate Harassment and Hate Behavior? • Level 1: Insensitive or Inappropriate Remarks and Behavior • Level 2: Hate-Motivated Intimidation or Harassment • Level 3: Hate Violence

6. Level 1: Insensitive or Inappropriate Remarks and Behavior • These acts do not threaten or are absent of hostility. • Include demeaning or degrading statements or phrases between student who are not doing it to be harmful or hateful.

7. Level 2: Hate-Motivated Intimidation or Harassment • Actions, remarks or statements that create a negative or hostile learning environment but do not include physical harm or threat. • Examples are name calling, racial slurs, demeaning jokes, physical or verbal harassment, offensive drawings or words used in graffiti, paintings or on clothing.

8. Level 3: Hate Violence • These include any actions that cause harm , attempting to cause harm or threatening to cause harm based on someone’s characteristics or status. • It also included any threats of hostility that have historical significance such as burning crosses, swastikas, or images that threaten to cause harm. • Racial slurs, name calling, and bigoted epithets along with a threat to cause harm are also considered Hate Violence.

9. Review Level 1: Insensitive or Inappropriate Remarks and Behavior 1. Which would be considered Insensitive or Inappropriate Behaviors? a. Laughing at and/or telling racial jokes, b. Putting down a student’s religious belief, c. Making fun of someone’s “appearance,” or d. All of the Above

10. Review Level 1: Insensitive or inappropriate remarks and behavior 2. What would be considered Insensitive or Inappropriate Remarks? a. Making jokes about someone’s mother, b. Calling a guy friend of yours a “girl,” c. Calling a PE activity “gay,” d. All of the Above 3. True or False: It is okay to make insensitive or inappropriate remarks to a friend when you are joking around.

11. Level 2 Review: Hate-Motivated Intimidation or Harassment 4. What is an epithet? a) a plot in a play b) the words of a leader c) an abusive word or phrase d) a heart condition 5.Circle the hate harassment behaviors. a) name calling, racial slurs b) drawing offensive graffiti c)negative stereotypes d) demeaning jokes

12. Level 2 Review: Hate-Motivated Intimidation or Harassment 6. Hate harassment includes actions or statements that are threatening towards another person based on their: a) Race, ethnicity, or immigrant status b) Gender or sexual orientation c) Religious beliefs or cultural characteristics d) Age, disability or any other physical condition e) All of the above 7. When are actions or words considered hate harassment? a) If the victim feels scared b) If a witness of the harassment feels scared c) Both a and b

13. Level 3 Review : Hate Violence 8. Hate violence includes which of the following actions? (Circle all correct answers) a) using names to hurt someone b) making threats to hurt someone c) name calling without any threat d) assault or threatened assault e) displaying posters, clothing or flyers from a hate group 9. Why is hate violence wrong? a) it breaks school rules and the law b) it is hurtful c) both a and b

14. Level 3 Review : Hate Violence 10. True or False: If a person continue to make offensive remarks to other students or adults on campus, the result could be expulsion.

15. Thinking Bigger: What is the purpose of having Hate Behavior Laws? How do you think it relates to our school’s mission statement? Mission Statement: Students are at the heart of Oak Valley and meeting their needs is our first priority.

16. Your Responsibility What do I do if I am or I know someone who is a victim of Hate Motivated Behavior or Hate Harassment? Sometimes we can be tempted to retaliate!!! DON’T • Report it immediately to a teacher, counselor or administrator, • Tell your harasser to stop, and • Keep a written record of each incident and the names of witnesses.

17. Oak Valley PRIDE In the words of Black-Eyed PeasOne Tribe, one time, one planet, one raceIt's all one blood, don't care about your faceThe color of your eye or the tone of your skinDon't care where ya areDon't care where ya beenCause where we gonna goIs where we wanna beThe place where the little language is UNITY We stand TOGETHER against those who try to DIVIDE us. That’s the Falcon Way.