Stand-Up Options

Please take time to consider your options if you are being harassed or made fun of on a regular basis.  Don’t be a “doormat” and allow another person to take your self-esteem away it’s just to valuable. 

Remember this:  if you stand a doormat upright it is very difficult to wipe your feet on it!!!

Eyes & Ears Alert:  Degree of difficulty:  “sit up”

This option involves you giving us the information about what is happening in detail.  Who, what, where & when is the information we need.  Counselors will take that information to the teachers nearby when the incidents are happening most.  The teachers keep this information “confidential” and their eyes & ears on full alert.   The hope is to catch the other student/s in the act and issue discipline.   

Counselor Assist:  Degree of difficulty:  “stand up”

This option involves you giving us the information about what is happening in detail.  Who, what, where & when is the information we need.  Counselors will take that information and meet individually with the student/s involved to discuss the behaviors with them.  It will be made clear to the student that is the behavior doesn’t stop after the talk we will need to call home and discuss with parents.

Confront with help:  Degree of difficulty:  “Jump up”

This option involves you giving us the information about what is happening in detail.  Who, what, where & when is the information we need.  Counselors and YOU will discuss that information, as well as, take it to another level.  This option takes the MOST courage, but also offers the most satisfaction when it’s all over.  You with the help of the counselor write up what the person is doing, but also how it makes you feel (see example below).  When finished we rehearse it together and after a few days, when you are ready we confront the student together.

I Hate It When:	It Makes me Feel:
1. He calls me fat.	1. useless and ugly.
2. He tells everyone to ignore me.	2. like no one would care if I died.
3. He says the ground shakes when I walk	3. like I weigh 1000lbs.
4. He forgets to call me names.	4. I wait all day for the slam, so my is ruined anyway.