By Merritt Melancon
Athens Banner-Herald
April 06, 2010
The Barrow County Board of Education is considering changing the student code of conduct to increase the penalties for bullying at all grade levels and to require school officials to report all bullying behavior to law enforcement.
Board members are expected to accept a draft of the revised student handbook at their regularly scheduled meeting at 7 tonight.
The school board plans to take public comments on the proposed code of conduct changes for a month before adopting them in May or later, said Ken Greene, director of student services for the school district.
"The board members brought bullying up as a concern primarily because of what they have seen on the news and those kinds of things, so we really just wanted to take a good, close look at what we're doing in our code of conduct and make sure that it was conveying the message that we wanted to convey to folks about the inappropriateness of bullying," said Greene, who oversees updating the code of conduct every year.
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