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Bullying Prevention

Noble Public Schools · Student Support

Helping Every Student Feel Safe at School

Every student deserves to feel safe and welcome at Noble. When something happens that gets in the way of that, we want to hear about it — so we can look into it and help. Here is how to tell us, what happens next, and where to find support along the way.

Tell Us What's Happening What Happens Next Support for Students Who to Talk To What the Policy Covers Policies and Forms

Tell Us What's Happening

Anyone can let us know — a student, a parent, a staff member, or someone in the community. You do not need to be certain, and you do not need to have all the details. There are two ways to do it.

Option 1

Talk to the building principal

The most direct route, and the best one when you want to talk it through with someone who already knows your student. School office numbers are listed below. Putting it in writing afterward — the report form, or just your own words — is what lets the principal begin looking into it formally.

Option 2

Use the ProtectOK app

Oklahoma's free statewide reporting app, from the Department of Public Safety and the Oklahoma School Security Institute. You can report a concern about any Oklahoma school, and you can do it without giving your name. You can also text OKS Threat to 226787 — that line carries two-way messages, photos and video, 24 hours a day.

ProtectOK — App Store ProtectOK — Google Play Incident Report Form (PDF)

If someone is in immediate danger

Call 911 first. The app and the school office are for concerns that are not an emergency happening right now.

What helps when you tell us

  • Who was involved, and who else saw it
  • What happened, and when and where
  • Whether it has happened before
  • Screenshots or printouts if any of it happened by text, message or post — along with the email address, phone number or web address it came from.

Whatever you remember is enough to start. Missing details do not stop the school from looking into it.

About reporting without your name. Anonymous reports are welcome, through ProtectOK or through the school, and they are looked into. One thing worth knowing: under district procedure, discipline cannot rest on an anonymous report alone — so if you are comfortable adding your name, it gives the school more to work with.

What Happens Next

However a concern reaches us — through the school office or through ProtectOK, which routes reports to school administrators and law enforcement — this is what follows.

  1. The principal looks into it

    After receiving a written report the principal notifies the superintendent within twenty-four hours and begins an investigation — what happened, how serious it is, whether it is still going on, and whether there is any risk of it escalating.

  2. Local authorities are contacted if a crime may have occurred

    If the investigation suggests that may be the case, the principal or superintendent notifies local law enforcement and lets the family know they can contact law enforcement directly as well.

  3. The response is matched to the situation

    Where the discipline code has been broken, the principal applies district policy. The aim is the response that will actually work for the students involved, which is why the policy gives administrators a range to choose from — a conversation with the student, a meeting with parents, time with a counselor, a behavior agreement, a change of seat or class, loss of privileges, suspension, or involving local authorities in serious cases. Parents are often part of that conversation.

  4. Support is offered to everyone involved

    The principal or superintendent may connect families with counseling or community mental health services — for the student who was hurt, for the student who did the hurting, and for anyone else affected.

  5. Both families hear the outcome within five days

    Once the investigation is finished, the parents or guardians of a student who was bullied are told, and so are the parents of the student responsible, within five days of the conclusion.

Support for Students

Whatever else is happening, a student who is struggling can talk to someone.

Who to Talk To

Ask for the building principal at your student's school.

School Grades Office
Katherine I. Daily Elementary Pre-K – K (405) 872-3406
John K. Hubbard Elementary 1 – 3 (405) 872-9201
Pioneer Elementary School 4 – 5 (405) 872-3472
Curtis Inge Middle School 6 – 8 (405) 872-3495
Noble High School 9 – 12 (405) 872-3441
District administration All (405) 872-3452

If it involves sex or gender. Conduct based on sex, including sexual harassment, is also handled through the district's Title IX process. You are welcome to contact Stacy Storey, Title IX Coordinator, at sstorey@nobleps.com or (405) 872-3452, and Title IX & Nondiscrimination explains that process. You do not have to work out which one applies — tell the school and it will be routed correctly.

What the Policy Covers

Oklahoma's School Safety and Bullying Prevention Act sets the definitions the district works from:

Bullying means "any pattern of harassment, intimidation, threatening behavior, physical acts, verbal or electronic communication directed toward a student or group of students that results in or is reasonably perceived as being done with the intent to cause negative educational or physical results for the targeted individual or group and is communicated in such a way as to disrupt or interfere with the school's educational mission or the education of any student."

Threatening behavior means "any pattern of behavior or isolated action, whether or not it is directed at another person, that a reasonable person would believe indicates potential for future harm to students, school personnel, or school property."

Electronic communication means written, verbal, pictorial or video content sent by an electronic device, including a telephone, a mobile or cellular phone or other wireless device, or a computer.

Policy FNCD also identifies these as forms of harassment:

  • Verbal, physical, or written harassment or abuse
  • Repeated remarks of a demeaning nature
  • Implied or explicit threats concerning one's grades, achievements, and the like
  • Demeaning jokes, stories, or activities directed at the student
  • Unwelcome physical contact

Where and when the policy applies

  • On school grounds
  • In school vehicles
  • At designated bus stops
  • At school-sponsored activities and school-sanctioned events
  • Away from school grounds when the conduct directly affects the good order, efficient management and welfare of the school district.
  • By electronic communication whether or not it originated at school or on school equipment, if it is directed at students or school personnel and concerns harassment, intimidation or bullying at school.

What the policy says. "It is the policy of this school district that bullying of students by other students, personnel, or the public will not be tolerated. Students are expected to be civil, polite, and fully engaged in the learning process."

Policies and Forms

Not sure whether to say something? Say something.

You do not need to decide whether what happened fits a legal definition. Tell the building principal, or send it through ProtectOK, and let the school figure out which process applies. Something that turns out to be a different kind of problem still gets a response — and a student who needs support still gets it.

District office: (405) 872-3452 · contactus@nobleps.com · Emergencies: 911