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Clear, free guides for families facing bullying
Plain-language help you can actually use — how to document, how to talk to the school, what your child's rights are, and where to get help. Everything here is free. There are no paywalls or premium tiers on family and victim resources, and there never will be.
Document & preserve evidence
Turn what's happening into a clear, dated record that holds up.
How to document bullying
A step-by-step guide to documenting bullying incidents so schools, districts, and officials take them seriously — contemporaneous, factual, specific, and dated.
Cyberbullying checklist
Capture screenshots that actually hold up: keep the URL, username, and date/time visible, capture before deleting, and report to the platform.
Work with the school
Report, write, and meet in a way that gets taken seriously.
What to say to a principal
Calm, factual scripts for reporting bullying to a principal — how to open the conversation, state the facts, and ask for specific action and a timeline.
Prepare for a school meeting
Walk into a meeting with the principal, counselor, or district organized: objectives, an evidence summary, the actions you're requesting, and the questions to ask.
FERPA records request
FERPA gives parents the right to inspect their child's education records — including the school's own incident and investigation files. How to request them.
Know your child's rights
When bullying becomes a civil-rights matter — and what you can do.
Protected-class harassment
When bullying targets a child's race, national origin, sex, disability, or religion, it can become civil-rights harassment with real duties for the school.
Title IX overview
A plain-language overview of Title IX — which protects students from sex-based and sexual harassment at schools that receive federal funding.
Disability harassment
Bullying a child because of a disability has its own protections under Section 504 and the ADA — and can become a denial of a free appropriate public education (FAPE).
OCR complaint guide
How to file a civil-rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights when bullying is discriminatory harassment — including the 180-day rule.
Specific situations
Cyberbullying, sextortion, youth sports, and disability.
Sextortion & image abuse
If someone is pressuring a child for images or threatening to share them, act fast — and know the child is the victim, not the wrongdoer. Where to report and remove.
Youth sports reporting
How to document and escalate bullying or hazing in youth sports — with a coach, club, or league — and where SafeSport standards fit in.
Find help
Trusted national help lines and your state's law.
Our privacy & AI promise
Exactly how your data is handled — your incident details stay on your device, are never sold, and are never used to train AI.
General information — not legal advice