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# Boody Junior High School Launches Phone App To Combat Bullying
- URL: https://bklyner.com/boody-junior-high-school-launches-phone-app-combat-bullying-bensonhurst/
- Published: 2014-05-13T15:00:27.000Z
- Updated: 2014-05-13T15:00:27.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: 228 ave s, ave s, boody jhs, bullying, David A boody junior high school, david boody jhs, dominick dangelo, is 228, #API-Imported

![IS 228 Principal Dominick D'Angelo and Bridg-iT founder Jeff Ervine](/content/images/static/5252f9fde4b0ec71254bba85/t/536f7e5ae4b074eafa50659b/1399815782502/.jpeg.jpeg)

IS 228 Principal Dominick D’Angelo and Bridg-iT founder Jeff Ervine (Source: Bridg-iT.com)

I.S. 228 David. A Boody Junior High School (228 Avenue S) is the first school in the nation to deploy bullying prevention software designed to curb harassment within its hallways.

Using any web-enabled device, including phones, tablets and desktop computers, students, parents and teachers can now inform the school’s administrators of incidents of bullying and harassment.

The software was designed by Bridg-iT School, and keeps records of reports tipsters file so that school administrators can determine patterns of behavior. It also will inform the school’s principal the moment a report is filed. All reports are kept confidential.

Principal Dominick D’Angelo [told the Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/gravesend-s-228-combat-school-bullying-new-hi-tech-prevention-software-article-1.1785034?ref=bklyner.com) that it will help address one of the top problems in tackling bullying in the hallways – simply being aware of it.

“This is a life-saving and life-changing opportunity because you don’t know the full extent of bullying within a particular school,” said D’Angelo. “The biggest challenge we have is knowing when something is happening.”

He believes students will be more willing to file the report confidentially and discreetly through a phone or computer than by openly approaching an administrator.

That jives with what students at the school [told CBS](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/09/brooklyn-school-introduces-app-to-report-bullying-anonymously/?ref=bklyner.com):

> Many students at I.S. 228 David A. Boody in Gravesend, Brooklyn have said they are afraid to come to an authority figure or adult about bullying.

> “If they see you going to, like, the dean’s office or (principal) Mr. D’Angelo’s office, you’d be called a snitch and be bullied too,” said eighth grader Paola Price, 13.