Students in Northern Lebanon School District are required to smile when walking in the hallways between classes.

Students who don't smile are told to either smile, or see a guidance counselor to discuss their problems, according to Lebanon Daily News.

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Parents and teachers are also telling the news agency that bullying incidents are being ignored by school administrators.

Jean Gundrum, mother of 15-year-old Julianna Gundrum, opted to pull her daughter from the school and enroll her in the district's cyberschool as a result of the policy forcing students to smile.

"If you don't (smile) you get called to the office or down to see your guidance counselor," Julianna told Lebanon Daily News. "You have to talk about your problems then. You have to or you get detention."

Several teachers told Lebanon Daily News that Assistant High School Principal Benjamin Wenger has taken it upon himself to enforce the rule, which is not a written rule within the district.

State law required schools to adopt an anti-bullying policy by Jan. 1, 2009, and the district has a written policy regarding bullying.

Gundrum also told Lebanon Daily News that her other daughter, 14-year-old Adreanna, was bullied as soon as the 2017-18 school year began, but it hasn't been addressed by school officials.

Superintendent Erik Bentzel, however, said any bullying incident that is reported in the school district is taken seriously.

"We fully investigate every report of bullying," he said. "But, we can't tell (both sets of parents) about the consequences - I can't talk to (a parent) about another (parent's) child."