The Schools Anti Bullying Policies

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Stage One On May 20th 2015, Maya Williams sued her former Victorian high school, Cardiff College, for negligence. She claimed that her school board and administrators had breached their duty of care by failing to properly implement the schools anti-bullying policies. She alleged that whilst she had been enrolled at the school (June 2013 – November 2014), she had been physically injured, humiliated, and regularly bullied. In October 2013, she was diagnosed with social anxiety and depression believed to have been triggered by bullying and discrimination in the school grounds. Additionally, she suffered severe panic attacks induced from bullying, which further resulted in a critical decline of school attendance and academic achievement. In January 2015, her family contacted the school in an attempt to resolve the issue, but the school did not act in accordance with their anti-bullying policy nor take steps to effectively deal with the ongoing harassment Williams faced. She argued the school failed to acknowledge and manage the maltreatment of the plaintiff despite bullying being evident to several teachers and staff employed at Cardiff College. Williams is seeking $250,000 in damages for psychiatric expenses and psychological injury. Stage Two On April 13 2011, the Supreme Court of New South Wales held that St Patrick’s College (a private girls’ school in Campbelltown) had breached its duty of care to former student Jazmine Oyston by failing to apply its anti-bullying policy
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