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[choneychurch]

This is a notification for all students regarding a change in rule enforcement.

This year, there has been a significant amount of antagonizing, harassing, and bullying through the journal system. Many prefects have intervened during these incidents or attempted to stop situations from escalating; I'm immensely grateful for that. But prefects can't be expected to constantly monitor the journals and these efforts haven't put a stop to the problem. Effective immediately: Maggie and I will be giving detention for bullying behavior on the journals. While other prefects may continue to be involved at their discretion, the lack of prefect involvement won't prevent anyone from being punished and we won't be giving out warnings. This is your warning. So please consider both the impact and the consequences of your actions.

For anyone that needs clarification, this means any comments made with the intention of hurting another student, comments made with blatant disregard for the feelings of another student, or comments which contain unwanted or aggressive language toward another student.

For example:

• Making threats, physical or otherwise.
• Calling someone derogatory names or slurs or using hate speech of any kind.
• Mocking or belittling the feelings, experiences, or opinions of other students.
• Making sexual comments or innuendoes that aren't wanted. This includes drawing lewd images in other students' journals.
• Spreading rumors or gossiping about other students.

These are just some examples, but if you are willfully antagonizing another student in an unwanted way and you don't stop when it becomes clear that they want you to stop, you will receive detention. We do understand that we all have different standards and different sensibilities, so if a situation genuinely seems to be unintentional or if those involved stop before the situation escalates, that will be taken into consideration. This consideration, however, will not be given to repeat offenders and people that have been talked to by prefects on multiple occasions about this type of behavior. I think most of us know when we're making someone uncomfortable or when we're hurting someone and that's something that we all have to take responsibility for.

Detentions will be scheduled in two-hour blocks on Saturdays and Sundays and will be overseen by me, Maggie, or a staff member. We've been given permission to assign multiple detentions per week to a student with multiple offenses or serious offenses and to keep students out of activities like dances, camping trips, Quidditch practice, and Quidditch matches if we deem it necessary. I hope that it never comes to that, but that's up to all of you. I'll be posting a full list of detentions every Friday so everyone knows where they are expected to be, when they are expected to be there, what they will be doing, and why they will be doing it. If your name appears on this list and you believe that we've judged a situation unfairly or incorrectly, tell me or Maggie and we can discuss what happened. If we can't come to a resolution that way, we can discuss the situation with the Heads of House. All of the Heads have been notified that this change is occurring and will make time for discussions as needed.

We'll be keeping up with the journals as well as we can, but anyone is welcome to contact us regarding specific incidents or to contact us regarding messages that have been privately warded. We'll have to see the content of warded messages to be able to act, because we don't want to let anyone use these rules against other people, but I promise that anything told to us or shown to us won't go any farther.

I realize that this will seem unfair or unreasonable to some of you, but please keep in mind that we're not asking for all of you to be friends or for all of you to get along. We're just asking you to treat each other with respect and empathy and to treat your peers as you would want to be treated or as you would want the people that you care about to be treated. And I hope you all understand that we're not doing this because we want to; we're doing this because nothing else has worked and we don't know how else to improve the situation. I suppose that's all I can say.

If anyone has questions, please let us know.

[Warded to Levi]

[...]

I know we already discussed this. And that it isn't a surprise. But I hope we're all ri

Hopefully this will go better than I'm anticipating, but

Can I see you later? Before you go to Astronomy tonight? [...] Nothing serious. It'd just be nice, that's all.

Comments

[gdilevi]

Sebastien Lalalala...............



an asshole.............?


Something's not adding up.

[professionalcorpse]

i could totally be an asshole.

or, okay, i can totally be a pain in the ass. there is definite documentation of this phenomenon.

[gdilevi]

State your source.

[professionalcorpse]

i have four older sisters on speed-dial.

not that my phone works. but STILL.

[bambae]

Like dying every five minutes.

[professionalcorpse]

that is a SKILL. i have cultivated this ability carefully.

[bambae]

like not folding in a straight line is a skill.

[professionalcorpse]

have you cultivated the ability carefully?

[bambae]

[...]

Nah I think I'm just a natural, dude.

[professionalcorpse]

so am i, let's be real. gabs asked me to try and stay alive one week and i lasted like, maybe a half-hour?

Chris

[get_fucked]

Careful, Chris. That sounds an awful lot like mocking.

Chris | Penny

[bambae]

Are you not giving me the cold shoulder

mocking isn't technically bullying. I looked it up in the dictionary. It's also the foundation of my relationship with this sophomore.

Chris | Penny

[get_fucked]

According to new Prefect Rules, it is.

Shit talk is the foundation of my relationship with a couple people, but apparently I can't do that anymore.

Chris | Penny

[bambae]

He's doing what he thinks he has to do. And it probably took a lot of effort for him to do.

But if you wanna maintain our natural shit talking relationship, I consent.

Just can't threaten to kill you during it anymore.

Not because I'm scared of detentions. But because I'd kinda like to not get kicked out of quidditch.

Chris | Penny

[get_fucked]

I mean I get that bullying is a problem, but this just seems... extreme. We have to watch everything we say all the time because what, people can't take a joke? My eyes are rolling so hard they might get stuck that way.

I consent, too. And you totally can, just do it under wards. I'm not going to fucking report you to the authorities for something we've been doing since like, freshman year.

And while genuinely ruining your life was once a goal of mine, I don't really give a shit anymore.

I feel like I should point out that the rules say 'unwanted'; this doesn't impact bs between buds.

[choneychurch]

ewwww don't call them buds. they just have a mutual love of hating on each other.

[get_fucked]

lol chris knows. that's why he told her he consents. he's consenting to bs between buds penny

[bambae]

Re: Chris | Penny

[bambae]

Ha

Dude, you don't even have to worry about ruining my life

I'm already doing great at that for you.

You think detentions are extreme for bullying, you should see Thorn's response to bullying. At least Cecil gave us a warning.

Chris | Penny

[get_fucked]

Me too bro, me too. We self destruct really easily.

At least you have Rosy, though. I've got no

What did Thorn do?

Re: Chris | Penny look at them calling eachother bros now

[bambae]

Thorn told us we are embarrassments to Team Gooseberry basically. We're supposed to be not bullying examples. Decided to make somebody less embarrassing captain. I'd normally tell you to go fuck yourself in answer, but it's not like nobody's gonna fucking find out.

Chris | Penny its so gross

[get_fucked]

WOW. I mean, there's a big part of me that's like satisfied with that because I didn't make the team at all and your suffering makes me feel way better BUT there's like, this small tiny part that's actually sad for you somehow???

Aw heck, I think I caught some more fucks to give.

Re: Chris | Penny

[bambae]

[...]

Thanks?

I think.

Chris | Penny

[get_fucked]

I mean - yeah, Chris, that fucking blows. I mean I don't know the extent of what happened but what I read like, that girl is kind of a bitch??? And Micah came out of nowhere to throw down and ya'll just got caught up in a shit situation. You were a dick but not like kick-you-out-of-captaincy level dick.

TBH I think you were made An Example, because bullying has gotten a tad out of control here.

Re: Chris | Penny

[bambae]

Wait are we on first name bas

[...]

I'm not actually sure how I feel about being made an example of.

I just thought Ramirez complained to Thorn because he hates how penises look.

[...]

I drew a penis and then drew a dialogue bubble around his chastising of our behavior.

[...]

In hindsight, it probably wasn't the greatest decision at the time. And probably didn't help.